BROOK PARK, Ohio — Marge Wichert remembers freezing at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium during Browns games with her husband, who was a die-hard fan.

“The wind chill is minus 10 or 15, and he still wouldn’t leave,” she said.

So Wichert can see why the team wants to replace its current, open-air stadium on the Downtown lakefront with an enclosed one in Brook Park. She’s just not sure what it will mean to have that stadium built less than half a mile from her house.

“It’s gonna be a lot of construction, on and off,” said Wichert, who has lived on the same quiet street in Brook Park since 1978.

She’s worried about construction activity, noise and game-day crowds.

“The more traffic you can get from the freeway directly into it, the better,” she said of the proposed stadium and entertai

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