San Diego.
what went wrong?
are the Chargers in am old stadium,
and the city won’t pay-up for a new one?
Correct.
The San Diego Charger ownership want a fixed or new stadium and wish to remain in SD.
The San Diego city people are upset with the ownership and calling their bluff to move.
The San Diego fans are grieving the loss of their favorite team.
are the Chargers in am old stadium,
and the city won’t pay-up for a new one?
Fairly old stadium with upgrades along the way, yes they want a new one. My father is tax paying San Diego resident, he says f them let them go.
1. A 2003 proposal to redevelop the Qualcomm site had drawings and a conceptual $400M financing outline: Chargers to pay half for free land.
2. An offer from National City for the team to develop 52 acres controlled by the Port and railroad that collapsed with no formal team plan.
3. A study of land in Chula Vista paid for by the Chargers that found two possible stadium sites but involved no formal team financing plan.
4. Discussion of building a stadium and office space in Oceanside, an idea that doesn’t pencil out and thus never includes a financing plan.
5. A suggestion from a national developer to build an Oceanside stadium and shopping center, all together now, with no team financing plan.
6. The possibility of buying a bunch of land in Escondido in 2009 to cobble together a stadium site, which quickly falls apart with no plan.
7. A plan hatched in 2009 to transform several East Village sites, including an operating busyard, into a stadium built with team/NFL $400M.
8. The 10th Avenue Marine Terminal site plan pushed most publicly by then-U-T ownership in 2012 without support from city or team officials.
9. Public officials’ new Mission Valley idea, which the team met with opposition, refusing to negotiate let alone consider a financing plan.