SFist reports:
At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Mayor Ed Lee and the Golden State Warriors front office are scheduled to make good on months of rumors by officially announcing a deal to bring the NBA franchise back to San Francisco proper. According to the Chronicle, the deal will bring a $500 million, privately financed 17,000 – 19,000-seat arena to Pier 30 along the southern Embarcadero. The new arena is expected to be completed in time for the team to start hosting home games on the waterfront during the 2017 – 2018 season.
This is so exciting! (But hopefully we can all still afford to live here by then. It would suck to have to commute from Oakland to SF to see the Warriors, am I right?)
Read on for lots more details and a pic of Gavin Newsom thanking everybody for not tearing down Red’s Java House.
If only we could have held on to the Niners. Nevertheless, this is great.
Hope this never happens. We don’t need a temple to overpaid adult men who bounce a ball into a metal ring.
lol this is the kind of comment i came here for.
you idiots never disappoint.
This is the kind of comment that always disappoints.
It’s because of wizzer that we can’t have nice things.
Hey, as long as it is wholly privately-funded I am A-OK with this. I may not like basketball, but I have no issue with them building a giant stadium for it to be played in, as long as it isn’t paid for by tax-payers as the 49ers tried to blackmail us into.
As long as they are not the Giants, I don’t give a fuck.
Terrific
Hockey by the Bay!
I can’t wait for all the shitty area bands that will play there.
SPORTS
Hang at The 500 much?
lol no wtf
Sports ball!
“Warriors”? That doesn’t seem like a very good name to be associated with SF. Oakland – makes sense. I’m sorry the Americas Cup couldn’t have had it. It seems like the traffic and environmental impact will be huge. I would prefer a mixed use strip mall and housing. Do we know for sure tax payers won’t subsidize it in some way? I have to presume this deal is much sweeter for the city than what the AC was pitching (shooting) for.
^This is one clueless transplant.
“In 1962, Franklin Mieuli purchased the majority shares of the team and relocated the franchise to the San Francisco Bay Area, renaming them the San Francisco Warriors.”
They brought the Warriors name from Philly.
First off, I don’t get your logic… why would the name Warriors be more associated with Oakland? It’s just a mascot or name. Secondly, do some research. Warriors have San Francisco history! They came from SF before they headed to Oakland.
America’s Cup is what, 3 boats? Why would they need much space?
“It seems like the traffic and environmental impact will be huge.”
No worse than for Giants games. AT&T park has a capacity of 42,000. Warriors arena will seat up to 19,000….half the capacity. They don’t plan on adding a parking lot. They will rely on mass transit.
How is a slip for a couple of mega-yachts, as was planned, preferable? Games aren’t cheap, but at least they’re in the realm of doable for the middle class.
Also, “Warriors” was inherited by SF from the Philadelphia club. And who cares?
Love it. 41+ games bringing 15,000+ fans with money to spend, much better bang for the buck than a football stadium.
+1, any public funding for a football stadium and its 10 home games a year is stupid/wasteful
Hear, fucking, Hear.
So when will the GS Warriors win a championship.. Or do we gotta wait like 100 years for a fluke of championship a-la the Giants.
Part of the ownership’s thinking when they bought the team was that if they relocated to SF they could lure top free agent talent with a new facility in a “world-class” city. I don’t know if that’s fantasy or reality, but that’s their line of thinking.
This is great news! The Giants already bring in really interesting folks from places like Modesto and Stockton. This will please SF natives no doubt!
Let’s start a pool to guess how many lawsuits will be filed to keep this out of the city. How many BOS meetings to block every move?
This just will not happen. Not in our lifetime.
HAHA you don’t know shit about this deal.
Does this mean the end for Red’s Java House? Also the end for the best spot to kick-it after a night of cruising the lowriders?
Did you even read the article?
Apparently not. I was too distraught by the rendering of the arena that I didn’t fully read the articles.
Yep, the wild pier will be toast, but we had our fun. The fact is all the wild cuts will be gone one day. Soon. Things change. A lot. Adapt or bail. Red’s will get LOOT – way better deal for them than the profit margin on a double cheezburger and a Bud. I remember when it was 2.00 for BOTH. OTD! They will carry on in a sanitized, Disney-caricature kinda way, I’d expect. But whatevs.
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kick hyphen it
The NBA is going bankrupt within 5 years.