The Buffalo Bills’ lease for New Era Field with Erie County runs through the end of the 2022 season.
While there are passionate discussions currently on-going about whether the Bills’ stadium should undergo another round of renovations, or whether the Bills should build a brand-new downtown stadium, a new book written by Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz describes the complicated negotiations from the last stadium lease discussions.
Those talks ended with all parties signing a memorandum of understanding on a new 10-year lease between the state and Erie County on Dec. 21, 2012, but even after the principles had been agreed upon, it still took three more months of negotiations before a final agreement was ready to be signed.