Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics on Wednesday announced they have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas – much to the disappointment of the mayor and others who were promised that the team was 'Rooted in Oakland.'
on Wednesday announced they have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas – much to the disappointment of the mayor and others who were promised that the team was "Rooted in Oakland."
The team said the A's have focused on securing a new home for two decades and "and have invested unprecedented time and resources for the past six years to build a ballpark in Oakland." In terse terms, Thao said that Oakland is ceasing negotiations and moving forward on alternatives for the $1 billion, privately financed redevelopment of Howard Terminal.
The A's proposed $1 billon privately-financed ballpark along the waterfront recently won a legal victory, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge deemed the environmental review of the stadium project and surrounding development sufficient. Those plans now appear dead in the water. If the A's do in fact leave, the city of Oakland, will have lost three professional sports teams since 2019, including the Raiders, who also moved to Vegas, and the Warriors, who moved to San Francisco.
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