An overview of the general area the A’s plan to build a 35,000-seat, privately- financed ballpark in Oakland. OAKLANDAfter years of uncertainty and concerted efforts by the Oakland Athletics to build a new ballpark in Fremont, then San Jose, the… Read More ›
The Uber building that never was. OAKLAND–OPPOSITION RESEARCH–In late 2015, it could be argued that Uber’s announced move to Downtown Oakland, based on its transformative potential (good and bad), was the biggest news story in Oakland that year. The purchase… Read More ›
Warriors owner Joe Lacob OAKLAND | BALLPARK | The Oakland business leaders who are pushing the effort to build a new home for the A’s on the city’s waterfront apparently are not the deep-pocketed investors behind the plan to build… Read More ›
February 2013 EBC headline following Mayor Quan’s State of the City address. OAKLAND | ANALYSIS | Last February, Assistant City Administrator Fred Blackwell spoke to a group of rabid East Bay sports fans at a Mexican restaurant in Oakland. With a margarita… Read More ›
A’s co-owner Lew Wolff OAKLAND | Was A’s co-owner Lew Wolff being positively flippant today about a downtown ballpark for the team in Oakland or is the recent spate of trash talk against the aging Coliseum a new strategy to pressure Oakland and… Read More ›
