With the 50-acre Howard Terminal no longer reserved for the Oakland ... profile plans for the terminal included a state-of-the-art stadium, thousands of apartments and hotel rooms, and shopping.

Owner John Fisher has had multiple stadium proposals fall through in the Bay Area. In 2023, the A's abruptly abandoned the Howard Terminal stadium project in Oakland to pursue a stadium solution ...

Money from the grant in Oakland would have been used in part to upgrade offsite infrastructure in the area where the proposed A’s Howard Terminal waterfront ballpark project would be constructed.