The A's are currently seeking project approvals from the City ofFremont. The ballpark would seat between 30,000 and 35,000 peopleand cost between $400 million and $500 million. A cost estimate wasnot immediately available for the lifestyle center, which is slatedto include some 2,900 housing units, 550,000 sf of stores andrestaurants and a 100-room boutique hotel. Completion istentatively scheduled for 2010 or 2011.

Meanwhile, the A's team will continue to operate under itscurrent lease agreement at McAfee Coliseum through the 2010 season,not including the option for three one-year extensions. McAfeeColiseum has been the A's home since 1968.

The bulk of the acreage for the new development, 152 acres, isowned by ProLogis but has been controlled by Cisco since 2000, whenit inked a long-term lease for the property that included an optionto buy. That agreement has been adjusted to allow for the projectnow planned for the site, and Cisco has reportedly assigned thelease and the option to the A's, with whom it also has negotiated a$4-million-a-year naming sponsorship agreement that in part willresult in the new ballpark being called Cisco Field.