Lew Wolff, Athletics owner and managing partner, announced Tuesday the A's have reached an agreement to purchase a 143-acre parcel from Cisco Systems with the intent of constructing a baseball park in the City of Fremont. The state-of-the-art baseball-only stadium will be named Cisco Field as part of a 30-year naming rights agreement.
The Ball Park will include state of the art technology and be the first of its kind (and I am sure not the last!). The development will feature a Baseball Village with residential housing, restaurants, retail shops and other community attractions.Cisco Field, when completed, will be showcase an integrated IP network built with Cisco technology, and will be the forum for a massive amount of applications that will hopefully take the fans' experience to the next level . For instance, digital signs could ensure "smart" and futuristic traffic flow and fans might even be able to purchase merchandise or concessions while in their seat by ordering from a mobile device. How cool is that?!!!!!!! And for those big spenders out there--luxury suites will have the opportunity to include multi-media amenities for premium video content, and Cisco TelePresence technology may even enable new forms of player-to-fan communications.
For those of you who are big A's fans', this new contract is a huge deal! It is completely revolutionizing the way that we will watch and interact at and with the game! I have nothing but wonderful thoughts surrounding this development...but what do you guys think?
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