If you’ve ever had the pleasure of heading out to spring training in Arizona, you’ve probably come away from it feeling it was a great fan experience. Compared to the regular season, the Cactus League is more relaxed and the players more accessible. Unlike Florida’s Grapefruit League, most of the teams in the Cactus League [...]

Today’s Argus has an opinion piece by former Fremont councilman Dominic Dutra. In it he argues that a win-win solution is still possible. The crux of his argument: The city should strive to honestly and forthrightly address these impacts while also citing the potential for growth in office, commercial, residential and other development. While impacts [...]

Over the weekend I got an interesting message from someone who worked for the City of Fremont. Apparently, there was a small push to get the city and the A’s to consider a Fremont ballpark site other than Pacific Commons and Warm Springs. The source even got a mock-up aerial photo showing where the ballpark [...]

Picture your regular poker night. For me, the routine usually includes the consumption of craft brews and single malt scotch, followed by the near immediate loss of money. It’s a familiar scene, practiced nightly in homes all over the country. Now imagine that scene with a bunch of multi-millionaires and billionaires sitting around the table. [...]

This isn’t difficult, folks. NFL stadia are expensive, at least twice as much as MLB ballparks due to all of the associated costs. It makes sense for both teams in a two-team market to explore ways the mitigate cost. Carl Goldberg of the NJ Sports & Exposition Authority says it best: “It’s unreasonable to think [...]

Apologies to readers for getting this out later than expected. The red parcel is the one remaining to be purchased that would be integral to building a ballpark. It is the site of Aeris Gas, which provides welding supplies and specialty gases. The location was formerly named ARC Gas Products, and over the years has [...]

Over the past few weeks, I had been working on a lot of San Jose-related material, after sensing a tidal shift. While I’m not counting out Fremont, I’m also not nearly as optimistic about it as I had been at this time last year. The real estate market and the retail economy make prospects difficult [...]

Ed Roski and the city of Industry has now created a lot of intrigue for several NFL teams looking for new stadia and their current home cities. Industry’s voters approved 60-1 (out of only 84 registered voters) a package of up to $500 million in infrastructure bonds to support Ed Roski’s dream of a new [...]

Not sure why the Merc’s Internal Affairs even brought this up. They bothered to ask Lew Wolff if he’d be interested in the City of Santa Clara as a future home, given the Selig letter. As I mentioned on Wednesday, there isn’t enough room for the A’s, 49ers, and Great America. The 49ers and Santa [...]

Matthew Artz at the Argus/Tri-City Beat blog confirmed something I had heard last week: Warm Springs is now the preferred Fremont option. Pacific Commons is now the “alternative.” This has to be due to the continued lack of progress on the Catellus/big box front. Update: New article here. Let’s be clear about what Warm Springs [...]