Chargers meet Oceanside city officials once again
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 , Chargers.com
Oceanside City officials and Charger Special Counsel Mark Fabiani met for almost two hours Tuesday afternoon. After the meeting, both Fabiani and Oceanside City Attorney John Mullen confirmed that the team and the city will continue to explore the possibility of creating a stadium and office village development on the city-owned Goat Hill golf course site. The profits from that development, along with investments by the Chargers and the NFL, would be used to privately finance a state-of-the-art, Super Bowl-quality professional football stadium and necessary infrastructure improvements.
“The office village concept could provide Oceanside with a large number of quality jobs close to where people live, along with significant new tax revenues,” Fabiani said. “For the Chargers, an office village could create sufficient available parking to accommodate our fans on weekends and evenings.”
As part of the continuing exploration of this concept, the Chargers also announced that the team would retain, at private expense, an expert consultant to conduct a feasibility study. The study would consider the potential demand for office space in the area along with construction costs and other factors. The study could also suggest other possible uses for the site if office demand proves to be insufficient to support such a village concept.
“The Chargers have been meeting with office space developers who might become partners in this venture,” Fabiani said. “These potential partners are clearly intrigued by the prospects of such an ambitious development, but they are understandably concerned about supply and demand issues. And those are the issues on which we will place special focus going forward.”
At the same time, the Chargers are awaiting the results of a study commissioned by the City of Chula Vista -- and funded privately, by the Chargers, at a cost of more than $220,000. The study, which is expected to be released sometime within the next month, with evaluate the pluses and minuses of various sites within the City of Chula Vista.
Mike Nowak, San Diego Chargers
Chargers officials have a productive meeting with Oceanside city officials Tuesday afternoon during which the team and city decided together that the office village-stadium concept deserves continued focus. The Chargers will privately retain expert help to evaluate the idea.
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