December 27, 2010
Stadium news from around the snowy globe
Slowly getting back up to speed here — it still looks like this outside. Let's start with a quick news roundup:
- Quebec Mayor Regis Labeaume has set a December 31 deadline for getting funding in place for a new NHL arena, but that surely ain't happening, especially not with Prime Minister Stephen Harper having pretty much ruled out using federal cash for sports facilities. Labeaume said earlier this month that he had a "Plan B" for arena financing, but according to a federal government negotiator, "right now we have nothing on the table."
- The 49ers signed a lease extension committing them to play in whatever the hell Candlestick Park is called these days through the year 2014. This isn't really much of a surprise given that team officials had already pretty much said a new stadium in Santa Clara couldn't open until 2015 at the soonest. But it is a reminder that leases are made to be extended.
- It looks like that plan for San Diego to build a new Chargers stadium with TIF district dollars isn't likely to happen, now that everyone involved has noticed that there isn't enough redevelopment district money left to build both a stadium and other planned projects. TIF money could still be a piece of the puzzle, of course, but somebody's going to need to find some more cash before any San Diego stadium deal can proceed.
COMMENTS
Neil,
Candlestick Park is just Candlestick Park these days. And shall remain so until the day it is torn down. City law now prohibits the stadium from ever being renamed again.
What, again? I thought they'd overturned that:
www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2009/11/3909_late_election_r.html
Posted by Neil deMause on December 27, 2010 11:03 PM
another silly s.f. law, another reason that the 9ers will be leaving
Posted by paul w. on December 28, 2010 02:59 PM
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