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January 04, 2006
A's look for Plan B
It sounded dubious at the time, and sure enough, the plan for an Oakland A's stadium-and-housing-and-other-stuff development is now all but dead. The snag? Nobody had bothered to ask the 100 or so property owners whose land A's owner Lew Wolff wanted for his stadium, or figured out how to pay them for it. So what's Plan B? "Right now, we are asking what Plan B is," A's spokesman Jim Young told the Oakland Tribune. "Asking"? Uh, wasn't this your idea in the first place?
Posted by Neil deMause
