HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- City council is expected to vote this week on a $3.2 million deal to build a new rugby stadium.
The proposal would allow the sports park board to lease the Houston amateur sports park -- where the Houston Dynamo practice -- to the Houston Sabercats.
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The team would then build and operate a 3,500-seat stadium along with two new practice fields.
Money would be used to cover the cost of installing a new parking lot
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The Sabercats, one of seven new major league rugby franchises, have begun exhibition contests at Constellation Field in Sugar Land.