Angels lease talks: Here is the Anaheim mayor’s wish list
5 years, 4 months ago

Angels lease talks: Here is the Anaheim mayor’s wish list

LA Times  

Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu announced Tuesday his goals for a potential deal that would keep the Angels in town for decades to come. In January, Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu and Angels owner Arte Moreno agreed to discuss a deal that would keep the team in town for decades to come. The Angels have described their goal as a “public-private partnership,” and Sidhu said that defining the city contribution to that partnership would be best left for negotiations. Council members debated the value of the Anaheim name to the team, even though the Angels have said they would not consider removing Los Angeles from the team’s full name and Sidhu has said he would not insist upon the return of the Anaheim name. “I will not put any timeline,” Sidhu said, “whether it’s 30 days, 45 days, 10 days, 5 days.” In addition to whatever economic impact the Angels might make in Anaheim, Kring said, their charitable foundation also makes an impact.

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Rob Manfred should be concerned about Arte Moreno's Angels
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Rob Manfred should be concerned about Arte Moreno's Angels

LA Times  

Angels owner Arte Moreno stands on the field before a game between the Angels and Boston Red Sox at Angel Stadium in May 2023. Those were Arte Moreno’s Angels, in his first decade of ownership, with five division championships in a six-year run. In the last 10 years, this one included, the Angels have developed one homegrown All-Star behind Trout: …

Angels take $2.75-million settlement from Anaheim over doomed stadium deal
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Angels take $2.75-million settlement from Anaheim over doomed stadium deal

LA Times  

Fan Sam Sepanji throws a ball in front of Angel Stadium before a game against the Red Sox in April. The Angels and the city of Anaheim agreed Monday to settle a two-year-old dispute, providing the team with $2.75 million in financial relief while granting the city the right to build a fire station on the Angel Stadium property. In …

Anaheim owes Angels' Arte Moreno $5 million. Why hasn't it paid?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Anaheim owes Angels' Arte Moreno $5 million. Why hasn't it paid?

LA Times  

In a dizzying span of 12 days, the deal collapsed. No longer would Angels owner Arte Moreno buy the Angel Stadium property and anchor his team to Anaheim for decades to come. In 2023, Sidhu signed a plea deal that acknowledged he “provided confidential negotiating information belonging to the city … so that the Angels could buy Angel Stadium on …

Arellano: Anaheim, it's time to tell the Angels and Arte Moreno adiós already
1 year, 4 months ago

Arellano: Anaheim, it's time to tell the Angels and Arte Moreno adiós already

LA Times  

The Angels last had a winning record in 2015 and last made the playoffs in 2014. Owner Arte Moreno, left, and then-General Manager Billy Eppler make their way from the Angel Stadium club house before a 2019 news conference In 2013, the city council approved a plan that would allow Moreno to lease 130 acres of parking lots around Angel …

New Anaheim mayor open to potential stadium deal with Angels
1 year, 9 months ago

New Anaheim mayor open to potential stadium deal with Angels

LA Times  

Anaheim mayor Ashleigh Aitken says she’s open to working with Angels owner Arte Moreno on a stadium deal that would benefit the interests of taxpayers and the team. On Saturday, Angels owner Arte Moreno said he planned to meet with the new Anaheim mayor, Ashleigh Aitken, within the next few weeks. Sidhu hurriedly pushed the city council to reinstate the …

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred calls Angels owner Arte Moreno ‘a good steward’
1 year, 10 months ago

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred calls Angels owner Arte Moreno ‘a good steward’

LA Times  

On a day Arte Moreno made his first appearance at Angels spring training, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred shared his thoughts on the Angels owner and his decision to take the team off the market last month. Speaking at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel as part of a Cactus League Media Day, Manfred called Moreno “a good steward for the game” who …

How Anaheim could try to play hardball with Angels owner Arte Moreno
2 years, 1 month ago

How Anaheim could try to play hardball with Angels owner Arte Moreno

LA Times  

Even with Angels owner Arte Moreno in the midst of selling the Angels, the city of Anaheim might throw a nine-figure curveball at him. The Angels’ lease at the city-owned stadium requires the team to pay the “sole expense” of ballpark maintenance and upkeep, aside from a specified city contribution each year. The lease specifies that the Angels must maintain …

Angels may ask court to block Anaheim from adding fire station to Angel Stadium lot
2 years, 3 months ago

Angels may ask court to block Anaheim from adding fire station to Angel Stadium lot

LA Times  

The Angels signal they plan to sue Anaheim over the construction of a fire station in the parking lot of Angel Stadium. The new issue: Anaheim plans to build a fire station in the Angel Stadium parking lot, which the Angels say the city has no unilateral right to do. In August, the city council approved a contract for the …

Angels owner Arte Moreno has started exploring option of selling the team
2 years, 4 months ago

Angels owner Arte Moreno has started exploring option of selling the team

LA Times  

Arte Moreno, whose 20-year ownership of the Angels started with the most successful decade in franchise history but is mired in a dreadful eight-year run in which the team has failed to make the playoffs, announced Tuesday that he has begun to explore the process of selling the franchise. Throughout this process, we will continue to run the franchise in …

Angels haven’t won since Angel Stadium sale was killed: The Curse of Harry Sidhu!
2 years, 7 months ago

Angels haven’t won since Angel Stadium sale was killed: The Curse of Harry Sidhu!

LA Times  

The Angels have lost 11 consecutive games since the Anaheim City Council voted to ax the Angel Stadium land sale amid an FBI investigation that prompted the resignation of Anaheim mayor Harry Sidhu. Angels lore is full of curses, including the original claim that the team never would win because its stadium was built upon the site of a Native …

Q&A: With the Angel Stadium sale axed, what are the Angels’ long-term plans in Anaheim?
2 years, 7 months ago

Q&A: With the Angel Stadium sale axed, what are the Angels’ long-term plans in Anaheim?

LA Times  

Angel Stadium in Anaheim. The Angels agreed Friday to the Anaheim City Council’s request to abandon the sale of Angel Stadium. On Wednesday morning, within 12 hours of the Anaheim City Council killing the Angel Stadium sale, the city of Long Beach renewed its pitch to lure the Angels. Angels Angels agree to Anaheim’s request to abandon Angel Stadium sale …

California mayor resigns amid baseball stadium deal scandal
2 years, 7 months ago

California mayor resigns amid baseball stadium deal scandal

Associated Press  

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The mayor of the Southern California city of Anaheim is resigning amid a swirling political scandal over the sale of Angel Stadium to the baseball team. “Mayor Harry Sidhu has always, as his foremost priority, acted in the best interests of the City of Anaheim, and he does so today,” Meyer said in a statement. The resignation …

The wild story of how Anaheim’s leaders bungled the Angels Stadium deal and betrayed their city
2 years, 7 months ago

The wild story of how Anaheim’s leaders bungled the Angels Stadium deal and betrayed their city

LA Times  

A worker washes a window inside Angel Stadium on Monday. The Anaheim City Council will meet to decide what comes next in the deal to sell the stadium site amid a corruption investigation into Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu. “Tonight,” Sidhu announced at a Jan. 15, 2019 council meeting, “I am asking my council colleagues to consider a one-year extension to …

Angels to Anaheim: You’re on the clock to approve stadium sale
2 years, 7 months ago

Angels to Anaheim: You’re on the clock to approve stadium sale

LA Times  

Facing community pressure to delay or cancel the Angel Stadium sale amid a corruption investigation into Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, the Angels on Friday gave the Anaheim City Council 25 days to grant final approval to the deal. In a letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times that was sent on behalf of the Angels and SRB Management, and eventually …

Column: Corruption scandal shows that in Anaheim politics, there are no angels
2 years, 7 months ago

Column: Corruption scandal shows that in Anaheim politics, there are no angels

LA Times  

Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, shown in 2004, is under FBI investigation over his involvement in the sale of Angel Stadium. On Monday, an FBI affidavit filed in Orange County Superior Court revealed Mayor Harry Sidhu was under federal investigation for public corruption over his role in the city’s attempted sale of Angel Stadium and its parking lots to Los Angeles …

Commentary: After nine years, endless delays and a corruption probe, what’s next for Angel Stadium?
2 years, 7 months ago

Commentary: After nine years, endless delays and a corruption probe, what’s next for Angel Stadium?

LA Times  

The finish line was in sight. The city proposed that Angels owner Arte Moreno put up restaurants, shops, homes and hotels around the stadium — what the Dodgers did in center field, but on steroids — and use the money he made to renovate or replace the stadium. In 2018, when the Angels opted out of their stadium lease, the …

State attorney general asks for hold on Angel Stadium land sale amid corruption probe
2 years, 7 months ago

State attorney general asks for hold on Angel Stadium land sale amid corruption probe

LA Times  

Fans enter Angels Stadium before the team’s season opener against the Houston Astros in April. However, FBI special agent Brian Adkins wrote: “I believe Sidhu illustrated his intent to solicit campaign contributions, in the amount of $1,000,000 … in exchange for performing official acts intended to finalize the stadium sale for the Angels.” Adkins also wrote that he found probable …

Angel Stadium deal fine print: 80% less affordable housing near ballpark
2 years, 8 months ago

Angel Stadium deal fine print: 80% less affordable housing near ballpark

LA Times  

An artist’s rendering of the proposed changes coming to Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Angels owner Arte Moreno agreed to pay $96 million to the city, which would use that money to fund affordable housing projects elsewhere in Anaheim. Under the original terms of the sale, the city credited Moreno’s development company with $124 million — essentially, a rebate — toward …

Commentary: Keeping baseball in Anaheim has its price
2 years, 8 months ago

Commentary: Keeping baseball in Anaheim has its price

LA Times  

Fans enter Angel Stadium before the season opener against the Houston Astros on April 7. Rob Fabela, the city attorney, had to explain that the $320-million land sale to Moreno’s company had called for $124 million in affordable housing credits — essentially, a rebate so Moreno would include affordable housing in his ballpark village. Now, Fabela said, the city would …

News Analysis: Who wants Angel Stadium land deal to fail? It’s not easy to say
2 years, 11 months ago

News Analysis: Who wants Angel Stadium land deal to fail? It’s not easy to say

LA Times  

Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu should be able to identify who doesn’t want the city’s Angel Stadium land deal with Angels owner Arte Moreno to succeed, but he’s not talking. And, with the Angel Stadium land sale in jeopardy, the city of Anaheim is pointing its finger at … well, the city won’t say. However, the city issued a statement denying …

Angel Stadium sale lawsuit: Anaheim officials detail negotiation timeline
2 years, 11 months ago

Angel Stadium sale lawsuit: Anaheim officials detail negotiation timeline

LA Times  

The city of Anaheim and the owner of the Angels had discussed the future of the Angel Stadium property for half a year. Those meetings took place behind closed doors, but City Councilman Jose Moreno and former city manager Chris Zapata testified to that timeline in separate declarations filed late Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court. In Wednesday’s filing, the …

Commentary: Time for Rob Manfred to save baseball in Oakland, or go down trying
3 years, 5 months ago

Commentary: Time for Rob Manfred to save baseball in Oakland, or go down trying

LA Times  

In 2019, the Angels’ ballpark project came before the Anaheim City Council. On Tuesday, the Oakland Athletics’ ballpark project is scheduled to come before the Oakland City Council. Dave Kaval, the A’s president, said the team has spent more than $200 million pursuing a new ballpark during the last five years. Sports A’s president rejects Oakland ballpark proposal The Oakland …

Anaheim has a Plan B for stadium sale. Hometown lawmakers might not be on board
3 years, 6 months ago

Anaheim has a Plan B for stadium sale. Hometown lawmakers might not be on board

LA Times  

Last Thursday, at 9:17 a.m., the Los Angeles Times posted a story about how the state housing agency had warned the city of Anaheim that its Angel Stadium sale might violate the law. There’s a twist, though: Where legislators usually and unabashedly support projects that would benefit their hometowns, the two state legislators who represent the area where the stadium …

Did Anaheim get a fair price for the Angel Stadium property?
4 years, 3 months ago

Did Anaheim get a fair price for the Angel Stadium property?

LA Times  

The Anaheim City Council did not meet in person Tuesday, so there were no ceremonial handshakes or fist pumps, no obligatory photo opportunity of council members donning Angels caps and smiling. The team’s owner would buy the city-owned stadium and the adjacent parking lots, refurbish or replace Angel Stadium at his cost, and convert more than 100 acres of surrounding …

Anaheim City Council approves $150-million cash stadium sale to Angels owner
4 years, 3 months ago

Anaheim City Council approves $150-million cash stadium sale to Angels owner

LA Times  

The Anaheim City Council voted early Wednesday to approve a revised deal with Angels owner Arte Moreno, selling Angel Stadium and the surrounding land for $150 million in cash in return for the team’s commitment to stay in Anaheim through 2050. “It was a mess.” The council rejected Jose Moreno’s motion to eliminate the credits and compel SRB to pay …

Anaheim’s cash from Angel Stadium sale? $150 million, not $325 million
4 years, 4 months ago

Anaheim’s cash from Angel Stadium sale? $150 million, not $325 million

LA Times  

In December, the Anaheim City Council agreed to sell Angel Stadium and the surrounding parking lots for $325 million. In order to entice Angels owner Arte Moreno and his development company to include close to 500 units of affordable housing and a seven-acre park within the small city to rise on the 150-acre stadium property, the city agreed to accept …

Angels and Anaheim reach a deal for the team to stay in city through 2050
5 years, 1 month ago

Angels and Anaheim reach a deal for the team to stay in city through 2050

LA Times  

The Angels and Anaheim have made a deal that keeps the team in town through 2050. A company affiliated with Angels owner Arte Moreno will buy the stadium and surrounding parking lots for $325 million. The Angels and the city agreed Wednesday on a deal under which a company affiliated with Angels owner Arte Moreno would buy Angel Stadium and …

Anaheim to reveal secret about what Angel Stadium land is worth; is a new deal near?
5 years, 1 month ago

Anaheim to reveal secret about what Angel Stadium land is worth; is a new deal near?

LA Times  

As the Angels and the city of Anaheim discuss how the team might turn the land surrounding Angel Stadium into an entertainment destination, the city repeatedly has declined to disclose just how much it believes the land is worth. Amid signs the Angels and the city of Anaheim could be closing in on a deal to turn the land surrounding …

Anaheim councilman Jose Moreno wants a month to review an Angels deal
5 years, 4 months ago

Anaheim councilman Jose Moreno wants a month to review an Angels deal

LA Times  

Anaheim city councilman Jose Moreno wants 30 days to review any potential stadium deal the city brokers with the Angels. “We are committed to a public process, with plenty of chances for public input.” Angels spokeswoman Marie Garvey said the team would abide by whatever review period the city wished. Jose Moreno has expressed concern that Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu …

Angels lease talks: Mayor insists team pays ‘market prices’ for stadium land
5 years, 4 months ago

Angels lease talks: Mayor insists team pays ‘market prices’ for stadium land

LA Times  

Anaheim’s mayor says the Angels will have to pay the market rate for land around Angel Stadium. The Angels will have to pay market rate to buy or lease any of the land around Angel Stadium, the city’s mayor said Friday. The last round of negotiations between the city and team collapsed in part because of public protest over Anaheim’s …

Angels lease talks: Team says Anaheim name isn’t coming back; mayor says fine
5 years, 4 months ago

Angels lease talks: Team says Anaheim name isn’t coming back; mayor says fine

LA Times  

The Angels will be playing at Angel Stadium in Anaheim at least through the 2020 season. As the Angels prepare to negotiate a potential new lease with the city of Anaheim, the team would like to make one thing perfectly clear: The team name will remain the Los Angeles Angels. But it is a distraction from what is really important: …

Angels have a third option in their stadium search
5 years, 4 months ago

Angels have a third option in their stadium search

LA Times  

The Angels will be playing at Angel Stadium in Anaheim at least through the 2020 season. At Tuesday’s Anaheim City Council meeting, Moreno said the one-year lease extension the council approved in January did not mean the current lease would expire when the extension does. In addition to choosing between a new or renovated stadium in Anaheim or a proposed …

Does Anaheim consider Long Beach a legitimate rival for the Angels?
5 years, 7 months ago

Does Anaheim consider Long Beach a legitimate rival for the Angels?

LA Times  

The Angels will be playing at Angel Stadium in Anaheim at least through the 2020 season, but does their future in the next decade and beyond reside in Long Beach? On the day after the city of Long Beach announced its pursuit of the Angels, Dan Cromwell emailed the city manager of Anaheim. Cromwell, an expert in commercial real estate …

Proposal from Angels on parking lot development is expected in two to four months
5 years, 9 months ago

Proposal from Angels on parking lot development is expected in two to four months

LA Times  

The Angels could propose a plan to develop the Angel Stadium parking lot in two to four months, Anaheim city manager Chris Zapata said Tuesday. The city hopes the Angels might agree to build restaurants, shops, offices and/or homes in the stadium parking lot, with the team using development profits to pay for a new or renovated stadium. The Long …

‘L.A. Live on steroids:’ Inside Anaheim’s pitch to keep the Angels
5 years, 11 months ago

‘L.A. Live on steroids:’ Inside Anaheim’s pitch to keep the Angels

LA Times  

For more than half a century, the Angels have played at Angel Stadium, a ballpark surrounded by an enormous parking lot. “Approving the LT project would, as a practical matter, eliminate the possibility that a sports-entertainment-hotel center could be developed at Angel Stadium,” Angels attorney Allan J. Abshez wrote. The new pitch: Think not of a couple of new buildings …

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