Huntington Bank Field — New Cleveland Browns Stadium

The new Huntington Bank Field is the $2.4 billion enclosed NFL stadium being built in Brook Park, Ohio, as the future home of the Cleveland Browns starting with the 2029 season. The official groundbreaking happened on April 30, 2026. HKS leads the design; AECOM Hunt and Turner Construction Company are running the build as a joint venture, with Independence Construction on the team. The stadium sits at the center of a broader $1 billion mixed-use district being developed by Haslam Sports Group.

Project Scope

The building is a 67,500-seat enclosed stadium scalable to roughly 75,000 for concerts and major events. Two design constraints define the structure.

First, the FAA siting rule. Because the site is adjacent to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the stadium height is capped by airport surface zones. HKS resolved that by sinking the entire bowl 80 feet below grade, which gives the program the seating capacity and sight lines it needed without breaking the height limit. Excavation work — already the most visible site activity — started in March 2026.

Second, the roof. The transparent folded-plate structural skin uses a custom lightweight polymer rather than ETFE, engineered to manage Cleveland snow loading while keeping the interior naturally daylit. The folded geometry isn’t decorative — it’s a structural response that gets clear-span coverage over an 80-foot-deep bowl with manageable cantilever depths.

The Grand Concourse — a unified main and upper concourse loop, pitched as the largest in the NFL — connects directly to outdoor plazas integrated into the surrounding mixed-use development. Event-level transformation lets the venue swing between 6,000-attendee assembly configurations and full 75,000 concert capacity.

Why It Matters

The Brook Park project is the only NFL stadium under construction in 2026, which alone makes it consequential for the small market of contractors and consultants that specialize in venue work. AECOM Hunt and Turner JV-ing on this build positions both firms on what will be the next-generation reference job for enclosed NFL stadiums.

Public participation totals more than $800 million between the state of Ohio and the city of Brook Park, with the Haslam Sports Group covering the rest. That $3.4 billion all-in cost — stadium plus mixed-use program — makes Huntington Bank Field one of the largest single private-public sports developments currently in execution in the U.S. Cost discipline will be the live story for the next three years; stadium projects from this generation have all run hot, and the construction-cost contingency built into a 2026-to-2029 schedule has to absorb whatever inflation and supply pressure shows up between now and topping out.

Project Team & Details