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Really, the entire saga of San Diego's downtown, Comic-Con and the Chargers is one of those local stories that will go on as long as one old timer is around to yap about it on Snapchat.
And as long as people can dream and make architectural renderings, there will be ideas for what kind of bizarro Brandon Graham-type building to put up in beautiful downtown San Diego. Like the above rendering of a proposed stadium that looks like a bunch of nesting tables stacked up wily nilly.
The Raiders haven’t committed to Los Angeles yet.
They really can’t, since the Chargers have a year of opportunity in SD before having to commit to the Rams’ new stadium.
San Antonio and Las Vegas (which is building a new stadium for UNLV behind MGM Grand) are possibilities for the Raiders.
They might share Levi Stadium with the 49ers.
San Diego still has an agreement with LA over sharing the new stadium in Inglewood.
It’s suspected they’ll use that to make a deal for the Petco site.
The biggest problem for the Chargers… financing the stadium.
They would save about $300 Million if they stayed in SD, due to relocation fees.
They would get $300 Million in grants and loans from the NFL, to be repaid from club seat sales.
Current projected cost: $1.7 Billion
San Diego is a smaller market than LA…can they sell the seats?
Any tax plan would have to go before voters, and those usually fare badly…
Would you want your property taxes (or in this case, hotel taxes) to pay for a stadium?
(San Diego revolted once before, in 1996, over a Chargers ballot proposal.)
But if it’s packaged with Convention Center funding (to save Comic-Con), Chargers geeks could partner with CCI geeks to fund both projects.
More here:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/convention-center-scorecard-political-footballs-in-san-diego-and-los-angeles/
Comic Con also wants to move to LA. It’s only natural that the Chargers would name drop the other shark in the cove.
Why does these people (City and Chargers) keep ignoring the important fact that nearly 1/3 of all the Chargers fans in San Diego County live North of Kearny Mesa? Same with the Padres… I know, let’s move the facility to watch their games farther away!!
This demonstrates the classic presumption and double dealing that the Spanos organization has practiced through this whole affair. I would like to ask that the City consider that the San Diego Chargers have NEVER brought $80 Million into this city in a single year, and that the cost of this new stadium would be very close to the amount of money that they top 5 grossing conventions delivered San Diego because…Convention Center….
“Comic Con also wants to move to LA.”
WC 2016 is going to be a big test of that.
Sports arenas are terrible investments. You spend a billion dollars to get a venue that’s used for less than 20 events a year. None of them ever return on the promises given. The one in LA will be a great test for the future of this kinda stuff, but their proximity to being the premiere facility in the media capital of the galaxy gives it an unfair advantage.
Comicon should get on board with sharing a mixed use facility with the NFL, its in the best interest of both, because neither are getting their own brand new freestanding buildings. SD isn’t big enough of a market to support it. Mixed use is the best idea to try and build something that attracts other events.
I’m a football fan and a comic book fan, too. Push come to shove, the Comic con wins over the NFL’s bloated demands to enrich one of their owners, Dean Spanos. What’s wrong with Qualcomm stadium? According to Spanos, it’s too old, making it difficult for the Chargers to make the kind of money that new venues make. Moreover, SD will never get awarded a Superbowl for a shack like that. My answer is screw the NFL. They want taxpayers to pay for stadiums so that billionaires and their millionaire players can get richer. The taxpayer gets the bill. This is income redistribution of the most perverse kind.