KCBS and the Merc have stories on Scott Specialty Gases, a business on 5121 Brandin Court in Fremont. SSG’s Electronic Materials Group is located there, and it supplies various semiconductor firms with gases used in manufacturing. According to Fremont officials, Wolff and Co. would have to pay to relocate SSG away from the ballpark village.The [...]

The Niners keep running into obstacles with the Santa Clara site. First it was the power substation, which can be avoided without much difficulty in the design phase. Now comes the old Hetch Hetchy aqueduct, upon which nothing can be built. According to Matier & Ross, the aqueduct, officially called the Bay Division Pipelines 3 [...]

Lew Wolff will be on San Jose AM station KLIV Tuesday night @ 7 p.m. (repeat at 10 p.m.). From the KLIV website: Please tune in this Tuesday night (February 27) for an engaging and interactive conversation with Lew Wolff and Dave Holland. Oakland A’s owner Lew Wolfe (sic) and Cisco Systems Executive Dave Holland [...]

Article’s like today’s AP piece are a good way to keep Cisco Field in the public conscience. As of 9 p.m. tonight, it showed up on 69 newspaper websites (according to Google). There’s talk of progress, but no indicators. There’s nice warm-fuzzy stuff about taking batting practice and shagging fly balls. Readers can sense the [...]

David Stern may be getting ready to open the Pandora’s Box that is Las Vegas.SI.com reports that the NBA commissioner and Sin City mayor Oscar Goodman may be close to bridging a philosophical gap that kept a NBA franchise out of the city. Stern, who previously has refused to buckle on his stance to never [...]

Last October I posted an article that kept track of other teams and their ballpark suits. Some news about other ballparks came out this week, so it’s a good time to revisit those other cities. First, let’s look at the A’s.Site acquisition is the major progress point here, as the Cisco deal and surrounding purchases [...]

Matier and Ross pointed out in today’s column that Pacific Commons is in some danger due to global warming. Should sea levels rise 1 meter over the next 100 years, it would appear that the low-lying project area would become waterfront property or at worst underwater. So which is it? A previous Chron article included [...]

The Merc’s Mr. Roadshow, Gary Richards, has an update on the big chokepoint in South Fremont/Warm Springs, the 880/Mission interchange: Q Gary, you’ve written so much about the construction on Highway 87, which I drive through every day and that is greatly appreciated. But I also drive up to Interstate 880 through the Mission Boulevard [...]

The 49ers and Raiders won’t have the option of getting the NFL’s help in financing their stadia. The league’s G3 loan program, which provided up to $150 million for a new stadium, has been completely exhausted according to new commish Roger Goodell. G3 helped make the NFL standout from the other sports leagues as it [...]

According to a SI.com report, SJSU and Lew Wolff are “as few as two weeks” from striking up an exclusivity agreement on a new stadium for the Spartans and Earthquakes 3.o. The key negotiating point is the size of the stadium: Spartan football backers want the venue to hold 30,000, while 23,000 is more comfortable [...]