A small but strategic piece of land that was in the way of the Haslam Sports Group’s (HSG) proposed stadium for its Cleveland Browns football team in suburban Brook Park has sold. Its sale gets it out of the way and into the fold of the overall property transaction for the roofed stadium. And in neighboring Berea, where HSG and its partners plan a Browns-themed mixed-use development, site plans had their first airing last week as part of a rezoning request. In May, it was reported that an integral piece of land was blocking the stadium development. The news came shortly after it was revealed that Haslam had a purchase agreement with a partnership led by Scannell Properties of Indianapolis to acquire 175 acres of a former Ford auto plant in Brook Park. Despite the utility right of way being a narrow piece of land, only about 100 feet wide, it extends roughly 1,400 feet deep into the very center of the proposed stadium site and blocks a large-scale development like what HSG has planned...