A historic East Oakland land deal is moving forward following a recent vote by the City Council to begin negotiations with a Black sports group for the sale or lease of the city’s stake in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum complex.

City councilmembers on July 20 directed city staff to negotiate with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, which wants to bring affordable housing, retail business and new jobs to the area.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.