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Cal Football May Play At Candlestick During Stadium Renovation

UC Berkeley Could Be Playing In Candlestick
Park While Memorial Stadium Gets Renovated
The Univ. of California, Berkeley (UC) football team could be "relocating across the bay to Candlestick Park when Memorial Stadium undergoes" its $200M renovation, according to Matier & Ross of the S.F. CHRONICLE. It is uncertain "just how quickly the stadium renovations begin -- as well as how quickly the team moves out." This may "hinge on the outcome of a UC Board of Regents meeting" today in S.F., where members are "scheduled to talk in closed session about the stadium's sensitive seismic safety questions." S.F. Recreation & Park Department Acting Dir Jared Blumenfeld, who has been part of talks over the school's potential move to Candlestick, said, "What they have (to decide) is whether the Berkeley stadium is seismically safe for them to continue playing in -- and there are regents who believe it is not." Matier & Ross note Memorial Stadium "sits perched atop the dangerous Hayward Fault, and UC officials are anxious to get going on the retrofit." Construction on the athletic center "will soon get underway -- but even under the best of circumstances, predictions are that the stadium work won't begin until the spring of 2011." During renovations, the team must play elsewhere, and the Oakland Coliseum has "enough seats, but there may be too many conflicts with baseball in the fall," while AT&T Park is "too small." But Candlestick Park has "almost as many seats" as Memorial Stadium and S.F. officials "don't think there will be a problem with the stadium's current tenants, the 49ers." However, negotiations over a temporary move "depend on the regents giving the green light -- and someone coming up with a way to pay the estimated $15[M] cost of relocating coaches, athletes and staff out of Memorial Stadium." Meanwhile, Matier & Ross note once Memorial Stadium's "redo is completed, fans may be in store for some changes -- like having to cough up license fees for 3,000 primo seats" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 11/19).


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