The typical questions I’m getting now are “Where is the site?” and “How far is it from BART?” I’ve put together a couple of photos that give a pretty good representation. First up is wide view of central and south Fremont. The yellow line represents the planned Warm Springs extension. The extension would run 5.4 [...]

In what can be construed as the only positive news to come out City Hall re: the A’s in some time, Oakland officials and the Coliseum Authority agreed to a three-year extension for the A’s. The extension could potentially keep the A’s in the Coliseum through 2013. The structure of the deal is such that [...]

A second Argus article by Chris De Benedetti has Wolff fielding questions about the seemingly endless rumor mill (yes, I’m partly responsible for this) regarding the A’s intentions. Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty comes to Wolff’s defense: “I don’t think in any way are the A’s playing us against another community,” said Alameda County Supervisor [...]

The Argus’s Chris De Benedetti reports that Fremont City Manager Fred Diaz is exuding confidence regarding the city’s chances of luring Fremont. “I think we are the lead candidate for the new home of the A’s,” Diaz added. “If there’s a deal to make for both the A’s and the City of Fremont, then we’ll [...]

The long, bitter battle between Santa Clara County and San José appears to finally be over. A $33.5-36.5 million settlement to be paid by the City will go towards a new crime lab (excellent idea IMO). City and County had squared off in dueling lawsuits over County’s desire to build a 7,000-seat, House of Blues-run [...]

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal just posted their interview with Wolff that appeared in the April 7 print edition. Lots of non-answers to the questions that were posed. At some point these interviews will start to look like the lecture scenes in “Real Genius”. So my eyes weren’t deceiving me when San Jose mayoral candidate [...]

Today’s Tracy Press has an article on the A’s ongoing talks with Fremont and Cisco. Quotes come from Fremont city manager Fred Diaz, who appears to be up to his eyeballs in negotiation work. The deal is still very much in the talking stage, and that places Fred Diaz, Fremont’s city manager and Tracy’s former [...]

Good links: A great technical document describing the noise problem for the University of Minnesota’s planned football stadium is available. It contains an explanation of the impact of concert noise, which the San Jose Draft EIR has basically glossed over. I have yet to find anything that properly explains the impact of the inversion layer [...]

The measurements made last night will provide a baseline for measurements I’ll make outside the Coliseum, China Basin, and other ballparks. The decibel (dB) scale is logarithmic like the Richter scale, so 70 dB can be interpreted as twice as loud as 60 dB. (There’s a good primer on sound and noise propagation at quietsolution.com.) [...]

Update: This post just got a mention in the SFGate “A’s Drumbeat” blog. Sweet! Now that the first three games are in the books, it’s time to do a comparison between the new, smaller Coliseum and last year’s larger model. Having the Yankees series at the beginning of the year creates a disadvantage for the [...]