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“Angel Stadium’s Uncertain Future: Will Nostalgia Spark Renovation or Relocation?”

"Angel Stadium's Uncertain Future: Will Nostalgia Spark Renovation or Relocation?"
“Of course we want to keep baseball in the city of Anaheim,” Anaheim mayor Ashleigh Aitken, above at an Angels game in 2023, said recently. “But it is going to be something that is going to inure to the benefit of both of us.” (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

That was the promise behind the two previous versions of a deal: The Angels would pay to renovate the stadium and build a village around it, and the city would reap the tax dollars from development.

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In 2013, then-mayor Tom Tait essentially torpedoed the deal that city staff and consultants had negotiated with Moreno, arguing that leasing the property to the Angels for $1 per year made no sense when the land was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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