Las Vegas vs. Oakland vs The Athletics Explained To Ken Rosenthal, Oakland A's Fans, And Sports Fans - ATLNews

Las Vegas vs. Oakland vs The Athletics Explained To Ken Rosenthal, Oakland A's Fans, And Sports Fans I looked at the transcript from Ken Rosenthal on YouTube seven days ago and found some troubling takes, like these: "The other part of it too is it seems to me after talking with the mayor and other people involved in that effort it's a sincere effort it was a sincere effort and they had I wouldn't say moved mountains but they had certainly accomplished a lot in their quest to get a deal done was it all the way there maybe not was it there to baseball satisfaction maybe not but that's why you negotiate in my mind after researching this article and writing it " "it seems to me if Major League Baseball really wanted to be in Oakland if the A's really wanted to be in Oakland they could have found their way." Ken Rosenthal Has No Background In The Public-Private Building Development Process And It Shows What bothers me about the presentation of Ken Rosenthal and other of the so-called "journalist" types, is they pass themselves off as experts and don't talk to economic development specialists, and especially not a person like me who has that background and in the Oakland context. So, I am the perfect person to talk to, but they don't because I am black. Moreover, they only talk to other so-called journalists, all white save for Tim Kawakami, who also have no background in the public private development process. Bottiom line: Oakland Mayor Thao can show them a ham sandwich shaped like a ballpark and they would say she had a plan. The fact is the reason the Oakland A's picked Las Vegas is they were not seeing measurable progress in Oakland, and because Oakland has foot-dragged doing a tax increment financing zone (which would have provided a giant subsidy to pay for on-site and off-site infrastructure and community benefits like affordable housing) then started pushing those costs on to the A's to pay for outright. That's a perfect bait-and-switch tactic. But the A's were not totally right either. First, the Oakland A's failed to finish the ballpark drawings and foot-dragged on that, making it look like they were buying time for the Las Vegas option to emerge. Second, the A's did not understand that by bragging about the $12 billion project, they were confusing the public, which did not know it was to be built in phases starting with the ballpark, and over a 7 to 14 year period. But that's pretty much it. You can't do a development agreement without construction drawings. And the last vote related to the development agreement was March 1, of 2022, when the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners voted to give approval rights to the City of Oakland. But a scheduled vote to approve a development agreement never happened - the term sheet is not a development agreement. Moreover, the one the City made a big deal about was rejected by the A's, and for good reason: it did not include sound fiscal subsidies and sent the message the City had sandbagged the A's. That was July 20, 2021. On November 25th, 2021, I wrote that the A's would leave Oakland for Las Vegas and for the Festival Grounds. I was right, save for the land. As for Mayor Thao, Ken Rosenthal doesn't see that she took her own staff members and Howard Terminal Project Manager. That does not say they can do a deal. You take your City Administrator, County Supervisor, Oakland Celebrity, and Howard Terminal Project Manager. Stay tuned.
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