Quick A's deal needed for fall vote on move to San Jose - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Reed told an audience at a Business Journal event Friday morning that he planned to meet in the afternoonj withLew Wolff, owner and managing partnere of the A’s. Reed has been meeting on a regular basis with Wolff on the stadium with support from a number of city staff to attract the team tohis city, according to Michelles McGurk, senior policy advisor for Reed. He told the audience he hope s to have an agreement with Wolff hammered out by early July so the San Jose City Councip could take up the issuein August. That time framw would need to be followed in order to get a stadiu proposal on the ballot this fall.
Though Reed has said previously hiscity can’t afford to spend any public money on building the A’sd ballpark, it does have a 14-acre site at Park Avenu and Autumn/Montgomery streets on the western edge of downtowbn San Jose where it could be City Council members have alread y signaled their support for movinh the A’s to San Jose and a committese of civic and business leaders have been formedx to get behind bringingt Major League Baseball to San The biggest barrier, however, to the A’s move south coule be with Major League Baseball.
Team owners must approvw dropping the SanFrancisco Giants’ territorial rights to Santas Clara County, which officials of the National League team said they wouldr resist since they regard the San Jose area as the hear t of their fan base.