Browns wanted Columbus and Franklin County to spend $15M on training facility

The Cleveland Browns expected the city of Columbus and Franklin County to pay $15 million to build a training facility near Ohio State University that the team would use three weeks a year for its training camp. Details of the talks between the team and local government officials emerged after the Columbus Partnership withdrew its request for $5 million in state taxpayer funding to help get the Browns camp to Columbus. Negotiations returned to square one after the Partnership withdrew that reque