An article in this week’s Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (by Lindsay Riddell) covers the A’s business side of the house from a different angle: opportunities abroad. The premise is that while Moneyball keeps the ship running lean and mean, the lack of high-profile players limits potential advertising and sponsorship opportunities. The first step towards [...]

I haven’t touched on the “Is 20 miles really leaving or not?” debate in a while, and was surprised when Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll chimed his with his take. His view is sober and pragmatic, with a good dose of glass half full: And besides, I wouldn’t really be “losing” the A’s. They would be [...]

Tonight the parties requested a more informal setting than the typical City Council meeting, even though the session was held in Council Chambers. So instead of the pols sitting on the dais, city officials and developers/architects sat around a bunch of pushed-together tables. This made for a constant flow of ideas and quick exchanges. The [...]

From the Fremont City Clerk: TO: ALL INTERESTED PARTIES This is to advise you that a City Council Work Session has been scheduled on the Oakland A’s proposed Ballpark Village Project. The City Council Work Session will be from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. The Work Session will be held [...]

Common sense has prevailed according to Matthew Artz’s piece on the ballpark village. You may remember that the school being planned for the village was originally going to sit on a 40-acre Fremont-owned parcel, 3/4ths of a mile away from the village (upper left corner of pic below). For the school district that was considered [...]

The commish traveled to Miami and the Twin Cities this week to visit stadium projects in two very different stages. On Tuesday he talked sites with Miami pols. The Orange Bowl appears to be the main candidate because it’s now available with the coming departure of the Hurricanes. A downtown site, if it can be [...]