Oakland Waterfront Ballpark District at Howard Terminal
1 Market St, Oakland, CA 94607 approximate location
The Howard Terminal proposal went through years of design, environmental review, and negotiation. The requested $182 million federal transportation grant was denied in January 2023, but that was one setback within broader unresolved public-financing and development-agreement talks before the Athletics pursued Las Vegas.
What got built
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What changed
- Renderings showed a 35,000-seat ballpark with a rooftop park at Howard Terminal, part of a larger proposed waterfront district with housing, hotel, and retail space.
- In January 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation declined a requested $182 million transportation grant. That figure was the grant request, not the total project cost or the full public-funding gap.
- Public-financing and development-agreement issues remained unresolved when city-team negotiations ended in April 2023.
- The Athletics pursued a Las Vegas stadium plan and later received MLB approval to relocate.
- No portion of the proposed Howard Terminal ballpark or surrounding development was constructed.
Why it changed
The federal transportation-grant denial was one funding setback, not a documented sole cause of cancellation. Howard Terminal also remained subject to unresolved public-financing and development-agreement negotiations before the Athletics reached a binding land agreement in Las Vegas and ended talks with Oakland.
Details
- Status
- Abandoned. None of the design was built.
- Where
- Oakland, CA
- Neighborhood
- Jack London Square / Port of Oakland
- Developer
- Oakland Athletics (John Fisher ownership)
- Architect
- Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), later design work with HNTB
- Rendering credit
- Oakland Athletics / Bjarke Ingels Group
- The built result
- Photographed by Johan Jönsson ( Julle ), 2018-01-28
Sources
- ABC10: renderings of the Howard Terminal ballpark abc10.com
- Wikipedia: Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas, Howard Terminal cancellation timeline en.wikipedia.org
- City of Oakland: Waterfront Ballpark District at Howard Terminal project page oaklandca.gov
- Nevada Independent: Howard Terminal negotiations and Las Vegas pivot thenevadaindependent.com
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: federal grant denial as an infrastructure setback reviewjournal.com
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