S.F. Gets Stadium Land Gift
San Francisco has been virtually given half the land it needs for a proposed baseball stadium through a recent U.S. House of Representatives vote, according to a published report.
The House, at the urging of city officials, last month waived $11 million in costs for a federally owned piece of land at the proposed 13-acre China Basin site, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
The deal, in which the city would pay about $1 million for land worth about 12 times that much, must be approved by the U.S. Senate, President Bush and the California Department of Transportation, which uses the waterfront site.
City officials, while reluctant to discuss the deal until it is approved, say it is an important part of the $115-million plan to build a 45,000-seat ballpark.
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