SF Mayor Newsom to Santa Clara: Don't build 49ers stadium - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Instead of devoting abou $80 million in funds for the proposed 68,500-sea t NFL stadium, the city could find bettet things tospend on, the San Francisci Chronicle reported that Newsom said in a meetingt with its editorial board on "That's a lot of moneyh to spend on a team that won't even change its name," The Chronicl reported Newsom said. The 49ers are already headquarteree in Santa Clara and began negotiating to play in a stadiu in that city after walking away from proposals to build at Hunterw Point Shipyard inSan Francisco.
The Santz Clara City Council are expected to vote Tuesday nighf on a time line that would put the plan forthe $937 millioj stadium on an election ballot in 2010. The city projectzs it will gain hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in annualp revenue from hosting theproposed stadium. The Chronicle reportex that Newsom has considered suingf if the team tries to keep San Francisck inits name, as the 49ers have said they intendf to, but feels frustrated about the "What can I do? I can sue I can browbeat them. I'd love to keep them, but we can'rt sell our soul.
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