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Hamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase in 1996 to fund the building of two new home venues for both the Bengals and MLB's Cincinnati Reds. The stadium was completed in time for the 2000 NFL season and opened in August of that year.
The stadium was designed by architectural firm NBBJ, led by Dan Meis. It was the first NFL facility to win an AIA design award.
In February 2024, the Cincinnati Bengals announced that the stadium would be returning to the FieldTurf system but upgrading to the newer FieldTurf CORE version. The field is one of only two stadiums in the NFL to have five miles of piping running under the field to keep the rubber inlays heated.
On the 9th of August 2022, the stadium entered a naming rights agreement with Paycor HCM Inc., a Cincinnati-based company founded by Robert J. Coughlin. The company paid an undisclosed sum for 16 years of naming rights.
The University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Ohio State Buckeyes played the first college football game at the stadium on the 21st of September 2002. On the 5th of September 2009, the Kentucky Wildcats and the Miami Redhawks played their opening games there, and the University of Cincinnati also played Oklahoma in 2010 at the stadium.