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Facilities & Venues
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49ers' Delayed Stadium Vote Could Keep Team At Candlestick
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Economic Uncertainties Main Reason Why 49ers
Delayed Proposed Stadium Vote To November |
Stalled negotiations and economic uncertainty have the 49ers "eyeing a vote in November rather than June on their proposed" $900M stadium in Santa Clara -- a "delay that could leave the team stuck at Candlestick Park well into the next decade," according to Matier & Ross of the S.F. CHRONICLE. At the very least, team officials "acknowledge that the extra five months before a vote means the Niners' hoped-for home near the Great America amusement park probably won't be built by their self-imposed deadline of 2012." 49ers VP/Communications Lisa Lang: "It looks like the target date will slip." Matier & Ross note a delay in the completion date "would force the 49ers to re-up at Candlestick, where their lease with the city expires after the 2012 season." The 49ers have "three options to renew after that, but each commits the team to an additional five years." Lang "confirmed that the Niners are looking at the possibility of a major remodel of [Candlestick Park] -- an option they had previously rejected as far too costly." Lang: "We are running the numbers again because things have changed." The team already is "working up designs for a new club area with premium seating that could be introduced the season after next." S.F. Supervisor Bevan Dufty said that he was "under the impression they weren't talking about the kind of massive makeover" that Soldier Field received. But Dufty said it may be "something that might be north of $100[M]." Matier & Ross: "In other words, the kind of fix-up that could keep the stadium operating for an extra 15 years -- long enough to pay for itself and carry the Niners through their last lease extension option" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 1/14).
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