Oakland’s efforts to keep the A’s in town took a major blow after the city was denied a federal grant that could have provided somewhere around one-third of the money needed to hold up its end of the proposed Howard Terminal project.
It’s largely unknown where exactly things stand between the city and its last major professional sports franchise, but the U.S. Transportation Department’s decision not to include Oakland in its list of grant recipients could be a setback to negotiations between the two sides.
City officials had sought the $182 million grant – part of the federal MEGA program intended to help fund infrastructure projects around the country –