It’s bad form, but I’m going to start off with a few sidebar items because they’re rather interesting. Advance ticket sales account for 80% of all tickets sold. The remaining 20% is walkup sales. Here’s a geographical breakdown: Oakland accounts for 8.8% of advance ticket sales San Francisco accounts for 13% of advance ticket sales [...]

The big takeaway from Wolff’s progress report tonight was that the Economic Impact Report for the project is now available. I’ve only barely scanned through it so far and here are some key points: Ballpark is still 30-34,000 seats, cost = $450 million The 2,900 housing units will be spread over 120 acres, for a [...]

From the Fremont City Clerk’s office (I used bold for emphasis): Subject: Ballpark Village Project Progress Report TO: ALL INTERESTED PARTIES FROM: CITY OF FREMONT SUBJECT: BALLPARK VILLAGE PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT This is to advise you that an agenda item has been scheduled for the regular City Council meeting of Tuesday, May 8, 2007, to [...]

Ask and ye shall receive. Bleacher Dave suggested that I compare different ballpark village developments around the country. Luckily I waited until NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his aggressive development plan for the Willets Point neighborhood east of Shea Stadium/CitiField, adding one more point of reference in the process. For this comparison, I’ve strictly observed [...]