The city’s ambitious dream of sandwiching a giant ballpark and thousands of new homes into its busy waterfront is now dead — possibly once and for all.
OAKLAND — This city’s ambitious dream of sandwiching a giant ballpark and thousands of new homes into its busy waterfront is now dead — possibly once and for all.
Mayor Sheng Thao said as much last month when she announced the end to ballpark talks with the A’s. Thao noted that future developers could be “fast-tracked” for approval at the site if they come forward with the right proposal — live entertainment or otherwise. “The city has invested so much time and money into this land in ways that just aren’t very logical,” Agha added.
Still, shipping companies that insisted Howard Terminal was needed for future port expansion had strong motivation to resist the A’s deal to the bitter end, and now they have similar impetus to thwart any future plan for a public-facing development. The team’s original planned site, for which it touted last month a “binding agreement” to purchase land, seems to have fallen from favor after Nevada legislators balked at the team’s request for $500 million in public investment.
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