Comments on: SF shows Oakland how to get things done

By: slo_town

slo_town — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:30:43 +0000

Jeffrey, I think you are partially correct. It may not have come through clearly on Twitter (@EastshoreEmpire on Twitter, slo_town here), but Jean Quan seemed to almost brush aside Howard Terminal. Her comment about not spending any money on Howard Terminal also seemed very odd. As a part of the presentation to MLB (and what looked to be apart of the Coliseum City HKS/JRDV/Forest City study) was a lot of feasibility work on Howard Terminal.
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And then for the Raiders, there is the Quan-backed proposal of a (retractable?) domed stadium to double as part of a convention center. One thought is the city would work with the Raiders, domed stadium or open-air depending on their thoughts. And then there is the Rick Tripp proposal which I honestly do not know much about.
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So really you have:
Howard Terminal (LGO and maybe the city)
Coliseum City baseball (Tripp? and city, but only if MLB supports it)
Coliseum City football (Tripp and the city)

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:36:21 +0000

Hey guys, just back from Tokyo and catching up here. One dynamic that hasn’t really been discussed but is alluded to in these tweets: Oakland has competing plans with competing backers.
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LGO has no interest in Coliseum City. That’s Jean Quan/Rebecca Kaplan’s thing. LGO is backed by a real estate developer who owns a lot land in the area (ironic that this is the thing so many rail on about Lew Wolff). Read LGOs recent Facebook posts. One includes “we will do this. We will have our own waterfront park.”
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If I had my druthers and the park was built in Oakland, I’d prefer something near downtown. I wonder how others feel about that.

By: BayMetro

BayMetro — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:17:07 +0000

……Now if only San Francisco could have taught Oakland how to get a football stadium done.

By: berry

berry — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:36:04 +0000

Again groups like SOS and lgo these ppl see Quan every other day I’m sure she tells them to keep cheerleading and keep making noise as a distraction while her staff bumbels with this stadium issues.

But I will have to say that when it comes to any stadium for Raiders or A’s the city really is pushing this coliseum site so I really look forward to see Oakland’s work or whatever they did when they present to the world how coliseum city can work… But this is sad being an east bay supporter. Only 5 more years of this mess till where done with this.

P.s my apology ML the other day. My girl says I need to check my temper. I’ll be coo on here.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:08:07 +0000

From niners super bowl 50 article…
“Meanwhile, Raiders owner Mark Davis told reporters at the NFL Fall meeting in Chicago that the team has no plans to share the Santa Clara stadium with the 49ers. “I give the 49ers all the credit in the world for getting a shovel in the ground in California,” Davis told NFL.com. “That’s phenomenal. But we’re trying to get our situation right. It’s not easy to do.”

Davis said the team would concentrate on building a new facility at the site of the current Oakland County Coliseum or at another another site in Dublin.”

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:45:23 +0000

OT: Niners got picked as one of the finalist for the 2017 Super Bowl!

http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_21786096/nfl-picks-santa-clara-finalist-2017-super-bowl

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:39:55 +0000

Tarps were an easy target to harp on ownership. Of course LGO won’t pressure Quan about transparency, because that would be hating on Oakland. And it’s not as good of a story for the media so they won’t cover it nearly as much as they did the tarps.

Did LGO just changed their name to “Let’s Go Ownership”?! For a group that supposedly cares and is proud of Oakland, they sure aren’t doing much to help their cause especially if they continue to ignore/forgive the polis pulling the strings. There’s a river called Denial and its running straight through the heart of the East Bay….

By: LoneStranger

LoneStranger — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:48:50 +0000

Tarps were an easy target to harp on ownership. Of course LGO won’t pressure Quan about transparency, because that would be hating on Oakland. And it’s not as good of a story for the media so they won’t cover it nearly as much as they did the tarps.

By: sjlaugh

sjlaugh — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:37:58 +0000

“Free” ballparks come to cities that have the potential to return that investment money back to the person or groups taking the risk. Unfortunately for many reasons that can be debated, Oakland just dose not have that potential.

Money flows to where Money can be made!

By: pjk

pjk — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:14:36 +0000

Oakland sees Frisco getting a free ballpark and now a free arena, and see the A’s willing to give a free ballpark to San Jose, too, and just figures Oakland is entitled to all this stuff for free, too, without regard to the team owners’ ability to finance projects like these in SF and San Jose vs. Oakland.