OAKLAND — Once considered a long shot, there is a renewed push to sell the Coliseum site as the ideal home for an Oakland A’s stadium development, weeks after the team’s plans to build near Laney College collapsed.
Preferences aside, you won’t hear a dinnertime debate this holiday season over whether the East Oakland site is the quickest route to a new ballpark. It has the backing of several Oakland council members and activists, lots of room, and has already passed environmental hurdles, unlike perceived Plan B, Howard Terminal next to Jack London Square.
But those two sites might as well be Plan Z as far as team President Dave Kaval is concerned.