dgfred
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Oakland A's
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Post by dgfred on Dec 4, 2017 11:05:14 GMT -5
For the 1979 season the Athletics would like to renovate their stadium in the off-season after ten years since the opening.
The A's would like Renovation Level One... but need some help with figuring the total cost. I think I have plenty but want to make sure. Thanks in advance for any advice or help.
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Reddington
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Atlanta Braves
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Post by Reddington on Dec 4, 2017 13:35:27 GMT -5
For the 1979 season the Athletics would like to renovate their stadium in the off-season after ten years since the opening. The A's would like Renovation Level One... but need some help with figuring the total cost. I think I have plenty but want to make sure. Thanks in advance for any advice or help. Oakland Front Office *** I'll look over your situation once I get home and post any recommendations I have
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Reddington
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Atlanta Braves
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Post by Reddington on Dec 4, 2017 17:16:17 GMT -5
OK you could increase seating to 60 K for 50 million 20 mil flat fee 10 mil 50-55 20 mil 55-60K
Stadium upgrades really don't help you as you already have >= fan loyalty so it's a ton of money to spend on just Fan interest, but if you want too... do a level one for 80M that will boast you F.Interests by 20
you have 130 mil in your stadium account and it takes two off seasons to complete...
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dgfred
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Post by dgfred on Dec 15, 2017 12:12:27 GMT -5
Just a bump for the start of the two off-season upgrades to the Stadium. Not increasing seating.
Level One Upgrade- 80 million
Not sure about any other fees.
Thanks.
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Post by CSCommish on Dec 16, 2017 12:40:27 GMT -5
You need to post a 750 word article.
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dgfred
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Oakland A's
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Post by dgfred on Dec 17, 2017 15:03:48 GMT -5
The Oakland Coliseum has turned ten years old this year so the Oakland front office feels it is time for some upgrading. The front office strategy is to keep the A's stadium current with the rest of the major league stadiums... even the newer ones. The A's plan to spend the next two off-seasons doing the work for a Level One upgrade to the facilities costing approximately 80 million. We know this work will make our baseball games a pleasant and fun environment for the fans... with excellent facilities and dining experiences.
The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, often referred to as the Oakland Coliseum, is a multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, California, United States, which is home to the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. It opened in 1966 and is now in the tenth year of service for the Oakland Athletics. The Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum complex consists of the stadium and the neighboring Oracle Arena.
The Coliseum has 6,300 club seats, 2,700 of which are available for Athletics games, 143 luxury suites, 125 of which are available for Athletics games, and a variable seating capacity of 47,170 for baseball. In seating capacity, Oakland Coliseum is the eighth largest MLB stadium during it's early years.
The Coliseum features an underground design where the playing surface is actually below ground level (21 feet/6 meters below sea level). Consequently, fans entering the stadium find themselves walking on to the main concourse of the stadium at the top of the first level of seats. This, combined with the hill that was built around the stadium to create the upper concourse, means that only the third deck is visible from outside the park. This gives the Coliseum the illusion of being a short stadium from the outside.
Business and political leaders in Oakland had long been in competition with neighbor San Francisco, as well as other cities in the West, and worked for Oakland and its suburbs (the greater East Bay) to be recognized nationally as a viable metropolitan area with its own identity and reputation, distinct and separate from that of San Francisco. Professional sports was seen as a primary way for the East Bay to gain such recognition. As a result, the desire for a major-league caliber stadium in the city of Oakland intensified during the 1950s and 1960s.
By 1960, a non-profit corporation was formed to oversee the financing and development of the facility (rather than city or county government issuing taxpayer-backed bonds for construction). Local real estate developer Robert T. Nahas headed this group (which included other prominent East Bay business leaders such as former US Senator William Knowland and Edgar F. Kaiser), which later became the governing board of the Coliseum upon completion. It was Nahas' idea that the Coliseum be privately financed with ownership transferring to the city and county upon retirement of the construction financing.
Preliminary architectural plans were unveiled in November 1960, and the following month a site was chosen west of the Elmhurst district of East Oakland alongside the then-recently completed Nimitz Freeway. A downtown site adjacent to Lake Merritt and the Oakland Auditorium (which itself, many years later, would be renamed the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center) was also originally considered. The Port of Oakland played a key role in the East Oakland site selection; The Port swapped 157 acres at the head of San Leandro Bay to the East Bay Regional Park District, in exchange for 105 acres of park land across the freeway, which the Port in turn donated to the City of Oakland as the site for the Coliseum sports complex.
In 1965, it was rumored that the Cleveland Indians might leave Cleveland for a West Coast city (such as Oakland), but the Indians ended up remaining in Cleveland. Charlie Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, unhappy in Kansas City, impressed by Oakland's new stadium and personally convinced to consider Oakland by Nahas, eventually got permission after several unsuccessful attempts and amid considerable controversy, to relocate his American League franchise to the stadium for the 1968 season (for details on the controversy, see the separate articles for the A's and the Kansas City Royals, the expansion franchise created to replace the A's in Kansas City).
In its baseball configuration, the Coliseum has the most foul territory of any major league ballpark in Major League Baseball. Thus, many balls that would reach the seats in other ballparks can be caught for outs at the Coliseum. The distance to the backstop was initially 90 feet (27 m), but was reduced to 60 feet (18 m) in 1969.
The Front Office intends to keep seating the same... with the upgrades coming to bathrooms/sewage, indoor facilities, eating facilities, parking and over-all appearances. With a strong core of young players such as Rick Burleson, Lance Parrish, Ricky Henderson, Willie Aikens, Craig Swan, Dick Ruthven, Jeff Reardon, Chris Welsh, Mike Boddicker, and a few others already contributing to the team the time is right for a surge in play... trying to knock California off their perch in the near future. That is the plan.
Let the upgrade begin. Go Amazin' A's!
Oakland Athletics' Front Office End of year 1978
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Post by CSCommish on Dec 17, 2017 16:46:16 GMT -5
75% of $80M fee to be paid by team. $60M paid entirely through stadium fund.
Paid in full.
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Post by CSCommish on Dec 17, 2017 16:56:49 GMT -5
10 points for article.
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Post by CSCommish on Dec 17, 2017 17:14:39 GMT -5
Stadium Expansion Complete.
Fan Loyalty increased to a max of Very Good and Fan Interest increased by 30 from 37 to 67.
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