Raiders Meet With Sun Cal, City Of Oakland, On Coliseum City

Raiders' Meet With SunCal, City of Oakland, Councilmember Larry Reid, On Coliseum City On Monday, Columbus Day of 2015 and this week, Oakland District 7 Councilmember Larry Reid , and Oakland City Administrator Claudia Cappio met for an hour-and-a-half in the office of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and with Oakland Raiders President Marc Badain, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority Executive Director Scott McKibben, and Bruce Elieff and Pat Keliher, both representing Sun Cal. Thus, it is Sun Cal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Elieff that's one of the rumored billionaire investors the Raiders are talking to, but he's not into moving the team to Los Angeles. This is about Coliseum City in Oakland – something Sun Cal has been involved in for a few months now. The general objective of that meeting was to determine next steps in the City's proposal to the Raideers to come up with a new Coliseum City plan, although no specifics were finalized, and the Oakland A's were not in the room. My sources say that the feeling now is the Raiders will not get the 24 NFL Owner votes required to approve a relocation request, although that idea will not stop the Silver and Black from filing for one. Moreover, the Raiders are expected to sign an extension of their current lease at the Coliseum, and perhaps even for not one, but two years. The Carson LA NFL Stadium deal is not expected to work out in the favor of the Raiders. From this, it's clear the Raiders are trying to work out a way to get a stadium deal done in Oakland. It's also clear that the Coliseum City plan still has a housing component – one that I think should be removed and is still making this a land deal more than a stadium deal. But it's also evident, from my point of view, that the lack of the existence of a focused task force, and a good competition between capable development groups, is still the case. Indeed, the overall strategy of the City of Oakland's side of the Oakland / Alameda County coin is to simply just wait and let events in Los Angeles play out. That's not the say individual parties aren't working on this, but there's no real coordination. Want proof? Look no further than the fact that appropriate members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors were not at the Columbus Day meeting at Mayor Schaaf's office. And they're not happy about it. MORE:

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