With San Diego businessman Floyd Kephart out of the picture, a new developer interested in building a stadium for the Raiders in Oakland could be poised to take on a larger role.
Southern California development firm SunCal, which has been advising the team since at least March, attended a recent meeting with city officials, confirmed Scott McKibben, executive director of the joint Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority.McKibben said the meeting was a "healthy exchange" of thoughts and concepts about a familiar problem — closing the estimated $400 million funding gap needed for a new stadium at the site of the O.