SVSE negotiating with A’s over Diridon
- 11.18.09, 00:30
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December’s Forbes magazine has a feature piece on the Sharks and Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment, the umbrella organization that owns the team and runs HP Pavilion. The magazine praises SVSE for keeping debt manageable while expanding its holdings, making the company not beholden to a single income source. Of SVSE’s revenue of $155 million, [...]
Got eight figures lying around?
- 11.13.09, 07:31
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Today you may have the unique opportunity to buy a piece of history. Whether you’re local or of a national bent, the opportunities await you – though you may have less than two hours to take advantage. I’ve been following the saga of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City (not Oakland’s Fox Theater) for a [...]
West Oakland murmurs
- 11.05.09, 08:56
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I’ll start off with a brief chunk from Chip Johnson’s Tuesday column. And even though she is among the first 200 residents to live at Central Station, mere rumors about A’s owner Lew Wolff sniffing around Middle Harbor for a new ballpark site have her already concerned about growth. Area residents don’t need me to [...]
As the ball turns
- 11.04.09, 01:19
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I encourage all of you to head on over to Dodger Divorce, a new blog run by Joshua Fisher dedicated to the messy financial status of the LA Dodgers. It’s not salacious. Instead, it gives incredible insight into how a particular ownership group assumed control of one of the major name brand franchises in MLB, [...]
