Just completed – three new site photo overviews. The finished overviews are: OUSD (Oakland Unified School District) – This site was mentioned in Peggy Stinnett’s column in the Oakland Tribune. She offers her take on a visit by Naoko Ezawa, who helped design Pac Bell (SBC) Park and represented developer KUD. KUD may very well [...]

A small bit of news that flew under the radar last weekend was the announcement that Susquehanna, the parent company of KNBR (680 and 1050 AM), is putting their radio business up for sale. In the salad days of the late 90′s KNBR and KTCT (1050, which later became co-branded as KNBR) were cash cows [...]

You probably know by now some details about MLB’s payoff to Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos over the Expos’ move to DC. MLB allowed the O’s to set up a new regional sports network (RSN) called Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. MASN is to be run by the O’s, with Angelos having complete control over broadcasts of [...]

I’ve posted the PDF for the next photo site overview, this time for Coliseum South. For some conjecture on how I think development might go, click here. Next up is the Coliseum Parking Lot overview, though it will have fewer pictures. Enjoy. Share this:

After the A’s unusual 1-0 win over The O.C., I drove out to the Estuary to finish taking pictures of the site. For those that are curious about what the Estuary site is, I’ve compiled the pictures into a PDF presentation with captions and descriptions. For now, I’ve refrained from adding much of the information [...]

KRON-4 profiled the Diridon South site on their 5 p.m. newscast earlier this evening. There is a news story and a video clip on that same page. Important in the story is the following: But the head of the redevelopment agency says that’s simply not true because the money to purchase the 14-acre site is [...]

Barry Witt of the Merc writes that on Tuesday, San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales and the City Council held a closed-door session to approve the Redevelopment Agency’s pursuit of the 13.9-acre Diridon South site, which has 10 separate property owners. This has leaders in other San Jose neighborhoods worried that funds used to purchase the [...]

I didn’t attend the night-after-Opening Night game for the first time in 4 years to attend the BART hearing. I listened to the game on the radio on the way home, but I didn’t get an idea of how sparse the crowd was until I caught the rest of game later on TV. For those [...]

Why all the fuss about Warm Springs? Well, if you remember the HOK study, Fremont was considered as a potential site. In fact, it came in third behind the Uptown site and the Coliseum site. With the Warm Springs extension slated to come online around 2010, it may become a viable site if an Oakland [...]

I attended the BART public hearing on the Warm Springs extension earlier tonight. The proceedings were mostly civil, except for when David Schonnbrunn of Transdef, who was the only opponent of the plan. Schonnbrunn criticized the plan for being wasteful and not smart-growth oriented. While I agreed with some of his points, I felt that [...]