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City Council Cuts A's out of Stadium Process

OAKLAND-City officials say that even if the A's decide that they want to move forward on the uptown site, the exclusive negotiating agreement does not preclude the team from going to Forest City Residential West, the company the city is now exclusively working with, and trying to work a plan with them.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on July 25, 2002

OAKLAND-The Oakland City Council has decided to enter into an exclusive arrangement with Forest City Residential West to build a stadium and then some on what has been deemed as the most appropriate site for a new baseball-only stadium without including the Oakland A’s in the deal.

But the council members made it clear that the exclusive negotiating agreement with Forest City Residential West to try to draw a mixed housing and retail development plan for the 800-acre site that has been called the “uptown site” is not a snub to the city’s baseball team, as some had maintained.

As a show that they plan to continue talking to the A’s in earnest about a new ballpark, the City Council approved a seven-year lease extension at Network Associates Coliseum and unveiled two nearby site options where a stadium could go. But even those preliminary sites are useless, council members and city officials said, until the team steps forward and makes clear what its long-term goals are.

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