While the road to hell is paved with stadium plans that have never actually come to fruition (something about the irrationality of spending hundreds of millions in public money in what is little more than an act of charity toward a rich professional sports team), and both SF and Oakland have had their fair share each, I can’t help but be a wee bit giddy about the 49ers proposed new stadium plan. It would be pretty cool to have that random cut out that gives certain seats a view of downtown SF. Of course, you’d think you’d be more interested in having a good view of the game, but the park supposedly would offer that too. And while the fact that they want to build housing rather than a mall gives the SF Supes a perfect reason to squash the plan, wouldn’t housing be better than a mall - even if it requires infrastructure? And obviously, the stadium helps the possible Olympic bid, but like SFist Jon, I’m not in love with the traffic and crowding and potentially negative fiscal implications of actually hosting the Olympics.

 The real issue though - how much will ticket prices will go up?

Posted on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 4:59 pm in Sports.
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