San Diego Officials Question Qualcomm Redevelopment Proposal
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Chargers Special Counsel Dismisses Qualcomm
Stadium Proposal As Outlandish |
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders' office is "raising concerns and other politicians sound skeptical or unenthused" about developer Perry Dealy's plan to redevelop the Qualcomm Stadium site and construct a new Chargers stadium, according to Matthew Hall of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. Sanders' spokesperson Darren Pudgil said Dealy's idea "appears to be very dense for the site," and she added, "If this doesn't work for the Chargers, it just doesn't work." Chargers Special Counsel Mark Fabiani "dismissed the proposal as outlandish in one of several online comments he acknowledged posting at the end" of the San Diego Union-Tribune report outlining the plan. Fabiani said that the proposal is "'a complete waste of time' because of its density and the upfront costs and delayed revenues of staggered construction." He also "cited the legal challenge of designating the booming area blighted to turn it into a redevelopment zone" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 5/21). Fabiani, in a posting on the Union-Tribune Web site, wrote, "It is just not possible to, all on a single site, play in the old stadium, build a new stadium, tear down the old stadium, and then five or six years into the project begin to build a profit-making development. The idea could have worked six years ago, when stadium and infrastructure costs were in the $650[M] range. But now that those costs have doubled -- into the $1.2[B] range -- there is simply no way to make the project pencil out" (SIGNONSANDIEGO.com, 5/20).
TAKE CHARGE: A SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE editorial states there still is time to "keep the team playing here long into the future." But it will "take leadership -- an asset that has been dismayingly AWOL on the politically volatile issue of a new NFL stadium. Sanders "for too long ... has taken a disappointing, hands-off approach." It is "time for the mayor to lead the effort." And with the Chargers' Chula Vista initiative "moribund," the editorial states, "We welcome a brash endeavor by a private San Diego developer." Dealy's "cheeky entry into the debate could become the catalyst for a fresh drive to overcome the stadium impasse" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 5/21).
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