Mark Lamping
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Daniel Whiteley is here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
We always said that.
If the end result was just a shiny new football stadium, then collectively I think we would have missed a huge opportunity.
We were really proud of not only the community benefits agreement, but also to make certain commitments to make sure that during the construction period, our project benefited the community to the maximum that it could.
We call these community construction metrics.
We're running ahead on all of them.
The local small and emerging businesses, we're running ahead of what our goal was.
Local business participation, we're running ahead.
In fact, as we sit here today, we've got over 140 local contractors that have already been doing work.
We were scheduled to play an additional game in 2030.
We work with the league.
The league has agreed to move that game to 2026.
So what that means is we're getting a game back.
that will be in Jacksonville in the new stadium at full capacity and we're giving up a game
at reduced capacity in the stadium here.
And it also helps us regarding the construction.
So that's happening for sure.