Qualcomm Stadium
The San Diego Chargers will call Qualcomm Stadium home for at least one more season, but won’t commit to staying long-term.
Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani announced that the team will not trigger a termination clause in their lease of the stadium next season, but will continue to try to build support for a new stadium downtown.
Likely in an effort to add pressure to fans and city officials, he also announced that the team would not commit to staying in San Diego past the 2010 season.
Matthew T. Hall of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the team is trying to gauge political support for building an $800 million stadium, partly via public subsidy.
Under their current contract, the Chargers are able to terminate their lease with Qualcomm Stadium between Feb. 1 and May 1 from now until the end of the deal in 2020.
Not surprisingly, there is a termination fee associated with breaking the lease.
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Ballot Question for November 2, 2010 Public Vote: Shall the People of the City of San Diego prepare land in the East Village area of downtown San Diego for a new multi-purpose Chargers NFL Stadium/Convention and Event Center and Build the Permanent Homeless Shelter using CCDC Redevelopment Funds; create a intergovernmental structure with the County of San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to finance construction of the Regional asset; and Redevelop the City-owned 166-acre Mission Valley site into a 75-acre River Front park, a Fire Station, and housing specifically for college students, staff, and faculty; Veterans; and seniors displaced from the closing of mobile home parks?