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Cowboys vice president Stephen Jones, who met with Dallas Mayor Laura Miller on Tuesday to discuss the Fair Park site, said the team was close to announcing its location but would not reveal any details. Several Dallas City Council members said this week that they believe the team will announce plans to move back to Fair Park just southeast of downtown, where the Cowboys played until moving to suburban Irving’s Texas Stadium in 1971. But the plan continues to hinge on raising up to $400 million of the project through taxes. “It’d be a good investment,” Jones said of the $400 million. “Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys will be one tenant. There are a lot of other people beyond the Dallas Cowboys that are going to be involved.” Cowboys representatives, in meetings with Dallas County commissioners Monday and Tuesday, “talked about the kind of global support they arc getting across the board for Fair Park,” said Commissioner Mike Cantrell. The team's political advisers in the last several weeks com missioned a poll that showed support for a taxpayer-financed stadium at Fair Park, county officials said. They said the poll showed that 58 percent of respondents supported financing for a Fair Park stadium. “The survey came back very favorable for Fair Park.” Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield told The Dallas Morning News in Wednesday’s editions. “They said they would bring a proposal back pretty quickly.” He and several other com- LIBEF ine c Pirick p lit twist k4 start i i In a pi to|take tii eight I the c Patrick, ; been addt gins clirr the line t -timer “Wee ■ggle-cl bench wli asvmblet The pi o Chicaj n ver a bij is that Wring coi le 11, sees “Why saNs Join re ations Works In nt abo Ws. “If icturinj ing to i ————■Variati - # In that stadium!'ed* jalysts ployer st me a As ele piblic’s a the culpri The tr Evan O'CoNNm , TUfE. " shutout, allowing j us » four hits while striking Baylor batters Kapchinski is currently riding 0 *s streak in which sFve has not allowed an earned w missioners said they werw that a site announcemfni P he made next week. The mayor said Cod representatives "asked J about Fair Park," addin: the issue was in the harJ county commissioners, rv A “The majority of the H believes Fair Part is ii/» x ' council member Bill Bt v.ho favors a SitewAw ir-i 4- initially identified jik'welV it downtown Dallas. That Industrial Botil; site, according to a city awl would require transput improvements, environ remediation and landaciji that would cost SI66 mi The location where the Stall of Texas is held annually all has highways and other i structure. 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