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Three years after the Washington Redskins started holding summer training camp in Richmond, the amount of money the city has been required to pay the franchise annually as part of the deal that brought the team here continues to climb.

The city’s Economic Development Authority, which manages the camp, this week drafted a $360,694 check to the team — $75,000 more than last year, despite efforts by city officials to push the number down by securing additional sponsorships.

Authority officials also said they’re abandoning efforts to lease out empty space on the second floor of the building constructed at the camp, saying the rent they were asking proved unrealistic. Instead they plan to build it out as an event space.

“For the last two years, we continue to have prospects who look at it and are very enthralled with it, and then the rent is quoted and they just disappear,” said authority Chairman Julious P. Smith Jr. during a recent meeting. “The reality is what we are asking is probably substantially above market rate, so the likelihood of getting a tenant is remote.”

Smith said the authority estimates the event space could bring in $200,000 in revenue a year.