Alameda County to sell its stake in Oakland Coliseum

In a potentially historic move, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to sell the county’s half ownership of the 155-acre Coliseum complex to the Oakland A’s baseball team for $85 million.

The county and the city of Oakland have jointly owned the Coliseum complex since 1964, but county leaders decided in 2015 that they wanted to sell their share in the property so they could get out of the sports business and focus on their core mission of providing social services.