Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said today that her administration has been talking to Major League Baseball about a potential sports village at the Oakland Coliseum complex that would include a new ballpark for the A’s. The mayor told the Express that the city is also examining the possibility of new facilities for the Warriors and the Raiders amid a larger development at the Coliseum that would include a hotel and retail. “We’re thinking of completely redoing the Coliseum,” she said.
Update 2:30 p.m.: Here’s an artist’s rendering of the proposed Coliseum sports village: