ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The proposed riverfront stadium in St. Louis has a naming rights deal worth $158 million that hinges on the city having an NFL team when the facility opens.
National Car Rental has reached a 20-year agreement with the St. Louis Regional Sports Authority for what will become ''National Car Rental Field,'' officials with the stadium task force and National told The Associated Press on Tuesday. But the stadium is no sure thing and wouldn't open until 2019 at the earliest.
The company, a unit of St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings, will pay $6.5 million in the first year, with a 2 percent annual inflation escalator every year after that.