Bundesliga: Rothaus brewery could invest €12.78m in the future stadium of SC Freiburg

The German brewer Rothaus has an agreement with the City of Freiburg to invest €12.78m into the future stadium that SC Freiburg (Bundesliga) wants to build, announced the municipality on 27/11/2014. The club had submitted a project draft of a 35,000 seat stadium at an estimated cost of €108m on 07/10/2014. SC Freiburg would finance €70m of the work, with the remaining €38m being provided by the City of Freiburg (and now, Rothaus brewery), as well as the Land (province) of Baden-Württemberg (€10m).

The agreement between the City and the brewer is subject to approval of the project in a public referendum of the Freiburg population on 01/02/2015. This vote would validate the location of the stadium, as well as the public funding (€38m in total). The investment of Rothaus would reduce the portion financed by the municipality to €15.22m. "It's a win-win-win for everyone," said Dieter Salomon, the mayor of Freiburg. The agreement with the brewery would also reduce the amount of the annual fee that the club would pay to the municipality to use the enclosure. It was estimated at €3.8m per…