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The Chargers new stadium can be built adjacent to Petco Park.
It looks like the city of San Diego and the Chargers are all ready to make up.
After years of looking for a site for a new stadium in a city other than San Diego and after the City of Industry received the green light to build a new facility just east of Los Angeles, it looks like the Chargers and city are coming to terms on keeping the team in San Diego.
The Chargers and the city of San Diego are looking at a downtown site that is adjacent to Petco Park.
The site covers 15-acres and is bordered by Park Blvd./12th Street on one side, K Street to the north, Imperial Ave. on the south and 16th Street on the east.
According to the Union-Tribune, San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders and team President Dean Spanos met two weeks ago to discuss the potential of the downtown site.
And apparently, Sanders feels that the climate is appropriate for the city to approach the idea of helping the Chargers build a new stadium.
"I don't want to say the Chargers were not important because they were, but I think that after four years, we certainly have to give them a signal on what we intend to do or how we want to do it or what we can do," Sanders told the UT. "And then start working together to see if we can achieve a solution."
It’s the first time that the two sides have come together to see if they can build a new stadium in San Diego after the Chargers rejected building a new stadium at the Qualcomm Stadium site in Mission Valley.
Because of the city of San Diego’s interest, Escondido—which approached the Chargers a few months ago—has backed down and will restart talks with the team only if the negotiations with San Diego break down.
"The way I see it, we're all engaged in trying to make sure the Chargers stay in San Diego," Escondido mayor Lori Holt Pfeiler told the UT. "I think (the downtown San Diego location) is a beautiful site."
The downtown project currently has a price tag of $1 billion and both the city and the Chargers are looking at ways of funding it.
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