The city has refused to form the second district. Until late summer, he had publicly been pressuring the city to commit to funding the Howard Terminal infrastructure and forming a second district encompassing Jack London Square and a section of West Oakland to pay for the sidewalks, pedestrian overpasses, street work and other improvements needed to get people to and from the ballpark site. “I think our willingness to at least go further based on the motion gives the county the opportunity to do more due diligence around this,” Supervisor Nate Miley said.Ī’s president Dave Kaval could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The supervisors, on the other hand, struck a less ebullient tone. “Tonight’s vote by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is a historic action that creates a clear path to keep the A’s rooted in Oakland and build a world-class waterfront ballpark district that will benefit Bay Area residents for generations to come,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a written statement immediately after the supervisors’ vote. Oakland A’s waterfront ballpark plan gets a key nod from Alameda County – Marin Independent Journalīut in the aftermath of a seven-hour meeting that focused heavily on various analyses of the financial risks and rewards of the county joining the city in forming a tax assessment district to pay for the project’s infrastructure, Oakland leaders were glowing.Īthletics Way and the proposed ballpark at Howard Terminal are shown in a rendering supplied by the Oakland A’s.
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