This isn’t exactly news (we reported it in December), but the Oakland A’s ownership now makes no pretense about seeking a new-ballpark site near a new BART stadium in Fremont, abandoning plans to fund the project through the proceeds of a mixed-use development.
This isn’t exactly news (we reported it in December), but the Oakland A’s now make no pretense about seeking a new-ballpark site near a new BART stadium in Fremont, abandoning plans to fund the project through the proceeds of a mixed-use development.
As you’ll recall, the A’s proposed building Cisco Field as the centerpiece of an ambitious Fremont mixed-use development featuring residential units, office buildings and retail. With the collapse of the economy and a tightening of the credit markets, these ambitious developments are being scrapped across the country, and given all the other challenges with the location — it’s not close to a BART train station — the A’s basically decided months ago to move in a different direction.
And that direction is a location next to a new Warm Springs BART stadium near I-680, about two miles east of the previous site. But the new site poses its own challenges: it’s close to existing residential, and it too has the potentual to cause traffic jams on game nights.
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