The area adjacent to Oakland’s Laney College is a near-perfect site for the A’s to build their new ballpark.
It’s easily accessible by highway and BART, and it’s easy to imagine the possibility of new bars, restaurants, and stores in the ballpark village surrounding the A’s new home.
The A’s want to build on that site. They want it so bad. The people who own the land — the Peralta Community College District — they are less enthused, so on Tuesday, its governing board ordered the Laney College chancellor to stop talking to the team. A community group, the Stay the Right Way Coalition, is planning a march Wednesday to demand that the chancellor make a commitment to not negotiating with the A’s.