A small blurb in Mitch Lawrence’s NY Daily News column suggests that the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics are seriously interested in relocating to San Jose. I’ve always thought that this was just part of a ploy to get the Sonics out of their terrible lease and have some improvements for Key Arena to boot. Until Sonics [...]

I’ve now had a chance to give the EIR a pretty good run-through and I’ve compiled a laundry list of comments to submit to the City. I won’t publish those yet since I want to give it another pass. For now, I’ll list highlight items I felt were important in the document and its presentation.First [...]

Meanwhile, Lew Wolff and his daughter Kari visited Pioneer Elementary School in Union City, where they read to 130 first- and second-graders as part of their pro-literacy program. Fremont city manager Manny Diaz discussed Fremont’s hopes of getting the A’s. According to Diaz, the A’s have inquired about Pacific Commons, the new development along I-880 [...]

As promised, San Jose’s draft environmental impact report is now available. The links lead one to just the table of contents right now, but I’ll have the entire 365-page tome soon for dissection. The Merc’s Barry Witt got a look at it and picked up some points about light and noise, which would affect the [...]

A new report from the San Jose Business Journal explains a bold, $1 billion vision of a revamped (again) Downtown San Jose, with new baseball and soccer facilities, museums, a concert hall, and other wide-ranging entertainment. While the proposal has not yet been finalized or presented, it is thought that the changes would be funded [...]

I’ve spent the last week in the Rockies and Plains. Compared to the weather I’ve experienced over the last several days, in which the temperature never went over the teens and the wind chill dropped the gauge to -40 in North Dakota, the supposedly chilly weather here is downright balmy. While I’ve been gone, San [...]

On AthleticsNation Blez just posted a fantastic interview with Lew Wolff. This is the second interview Blez has snagged with Wolff. A couple of points to consider: How many blogs or other fansites get real, non-fluff interviews with team owners? Blez obviously deserves credit for being regarded highly enough to merit the Q&A sessions with [...]

New articles have appeared on the Bizjournals.com website. One belongs to the East Bay Business Times, the other to South Florida Business Journal. The first article calls the Bay Area “saturated,” while the LA market definitely has room for more sports franchises. It also cites the Bay Area’s total personal income as $375.5 billion, a [...]

A report in Monday’s Charlotte Business Journal discusses the challenges facing Charlotte in its efforts to lure the Marlins. Chief among them is the a lack of financial support because of the size of the Charlotte market and the fact that two teams – the NBA’s Bobcats and the NFL’s Panthers – already occupy it. [...]

Greetings from Odessa, TX, where I am on an unusual business trip. No meetings, no appointments, just a lot of driving around for testing purposes. Believe it or not, I encountered a tumbleweed 30 seconds after I exited the parking lot this morning. West Texas really is like that. The rental was already tuned to [...]