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49ers hedge stadium bets
Looks like the 49ers aren't quite ready to bet the farm on landing a new football stadium in Santa Clara - or in San Francisco, for that matter. Larry MacNeil, the Niners' chief financial officer, recently pitched a stadium idea to officials in nearby Brisbane. MacNeil suggested they include a stadium plan as part of the little city's environmental review of a proposed 650-acre development at ...
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49ers looking at Brisbane? Gee, that must mean the Santa Clara stadium effort is going wonderfully
Kawakami — For the thousandth time: I’m a meany who somehow can’t find the full fiscal and stadium-ial faith in the Yorks, Santa Clara and that great incredible plan that, err, still isn’t yet really a plan and doesn’t have an official price tag or official site or… Oh, why can’t I trust the Yorks! Because of items like this in Matier & Ross today about 49ers VP Larry MacNeil sending a strong feeler out to the city of Brisbane . Very interesting. I’m all ears. Because I hear stuff like this all of the time, and occasionally write about them, and get the 49ers very, very mad at me all of ...

49ERS DANCING WITH THREE SUITORS FOR NEW STADIUM
ProFootballTalk.com — ... commercial space. Proposition G, as it’s known, has been polling well but there’s another Proposition on the ballot which would require the city to use the area for affordable housing. That would negate plans for a stadium. Recently, the team started discussions with Brisbane, just outside San Francisco, about using a waterfront landfill site for a stadium. The current landowners, Universal Paragon Corp., want to transform the area into a hub of green tech development and told the San Francisco Chronicle that “it’s not really what we envision for the site.” Seems a lot of ...

Election Day and the 49ers
Niners Nation — ... A little research has indicated the 49ers are hoping to get something on the ballot in the South Bay by November , but there appears to be a lot of work still to be done.  In the meantime, if there is anything elsewhere in the Bay Area I've missed in terms of the coming week's elections, feel free to discuss it in the comments. ...

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