A’s to NUMMI
By Matt Artz
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pm in Uncategorized.
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By Matt Artz
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pm in Uncategorized.
You someone would ask the question.
Click here.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 am
Matt ALRET THE MOB!!
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
“I don’t expect Fremont residents to forget easily either” – damn straight, and don’t y’all be forgettin’ it either.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
As an aside, it seems that the Fisher family is having a lot of trouble finding people willing to accept their largesse:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/02/MNJL18HMBA.DTL
First John with his stadium and now Donald and his museum. Those darn local residents just can’t help messing with the Fisher’s plans.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I wish Newark could get in on the A’s. There is still a huge tract of land next to the new Newark Ohlone Center on which you could build Cisco Field.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Rick, we need something more than Henry Ford’s invention to get fans to the game. Sorry, but downtown San Jose offers those options already.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Courtesy of SFGate and Marine Layer
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/athletics/detail?&entry_id=42889
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Rick, Newark is far too smart to fall for snake oil like the A’s proposal. There’s a reason why Dave Smith is on his sixteenth consecutive term as Mayor, and a lot of it has to do with not insulting the intelligence of his constituency. Give the people what they want and they’ll keep voting you back in. So far, Newark’s got NewPark, Silliman Center, and an Ohlone campus that you don’t have to be a mountain goat to get to. All with no need for Newark citizens to form their own FCN.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Call me a realist, but I don’t consider Newark “smart”, nor do I think San Jose’s downtown offers many options beyond getting ushered out of SOFA real quick after 1 pm. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then perhaps you shouldn’t be offering up SJ as a destination for the A’s.
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 am
I wasn’t referring to drinking options Marty. I was referring to transportation options to sporting events.
Re: SOFA – Did you really mean 1 p.m. or 1 a.m.?
Maybe you can mosey your way back to downtown Niles for the after hours clubs. Heck, most ballgames are over before midnight even if they run into extra innings.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
TCB = News and views from Fremont, Newark and Union City.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Here is an interesting article that discusses the incestuous relationship between the public media and stadium development.
The authors site bias (imagine that !) from media coverage of these kinds of proposed developments and explains that -
“This bias usually takes the form of uncritically parroting stadium proponents’ economic and social promises, quoting stadium supporters far more frequently than stadium opponents, overlooking the numerous objective academic studies on the topic, and failing to independently examine the multitude of failed stadium-centered promises throughout the country, especially those in oft-cited “success cities” such as Denver and Cleveland.”
Here is a link -
http://www.thesportseconomist.com/2008/01/stadium-promises-media-bias.htm
It would seem that those who have a critical eye on stadium economics can not only rely on owners and developers, but now (according to this article) the public media to substantiate economic advantages of stadiums while these same self-interested groups will consistantly ignore routinely avaialable data to the contrary.
Deja vu F.L.