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Tuesday’s proceedings will be streamed live \u003ca href=\"http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000006503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advance of the hearing, I spoke with Nathaniel Grow, a law professor at the University of Georgia who specializes in sports law and has written \u003ca href=\"http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/56snn7zy9780252038198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/259/200/case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1922 Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> that has protected the major leagues from antitrust actions in the past. Grow says the law is not on San Jose’s side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got not only three Supreme Court decisions that are binding precedents, but the 9th Circuit has their own binding precedent from the 1970s, saying that this very same issue, relocation of franchises, is covered by baseball’s antitrust exemption. San Jose has to get out of that and come up with some way to convince the judges on the 9th Circuit to ignore all that and rule in their favor. Whereas Major League Baseball’s case is much cleaner. All they have to do is say, ‘Look, this is what the law is, this is how it applies’ — there really isn’t a lot of discretion for the appellate court to exercise its judgment here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow says the last time that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption came before the Supreme Court was in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there the Supreme Court said, ‘You know, Congress has known about this for 50 years at this point. They’ve thought about acting, they’ve never acted, so it’s not our place to touch it now. That would be unfair to Major League Baseball to reverse this protection that they’ve been relying on for five decades.’ And I think if this case were to get to the Supreme Court level, that’d be the argument — 40 years later, is it even less fair to MLB to act, or is Congress being so negligent that it’s time for the court to step in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow rates San Jose’s chances of succeeding at the 9th Circuit at less than 10 percent, and he thinks the high court would probably decline to hear an appeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the Supreme Court does take the case, then I think that’s a really bad sign for Major League Baseball. I don’t see the court wading into this highly contentious, controversial issue for a fourth time only to issue what is sure to be a highly criticized opinion affirming baseball’s antitrust exemption. So, if the Supreme Court agrees to take the case, San Jose would likely win one way or another, either through a settlement or a judicial decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Grow if San Jose’s argument — that the A’s want to move, and only MLB’s intransigence is stopping them — was damaged when the A’s owners \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/06/Coliseum-board-approves-10-year-deal-with-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 10-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum last week\u003c/a> and said they’re talking with architects and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26287681/approach-architect-oakland-ballpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking at sites for a new ballpark in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it certainly doesn’t help, in part because it casts doubt on San Jose’s standing to bring a suit — since they can’t claim damages for losing a baseball team that they might have never had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, courts have often said unless a team is 100 percent contractually committed to moving, there is no case yet. And that would be the worst possible outcome for San Jose — for the 9th Circuit to rule that there’s no standing here. If the 9th Circuit affirms the dismissal on ‘no standing’ grounds, there’s very, very, very little chance the Supreme Court would review that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that the court won’t be ruling for a few months, I asked Grow what clues might we get from the oral arguments? He cautioned against trying to read too much into questions from the bench:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially here, where the city faces such a strong uphill climb to get over those Supreme Court precedents. The judges will undoubtedly ask some pointed questions of Major League Baseball, because they have to treat both sides a little critically in order to be fair. 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Kennedy figured his contribution was a way to give back to his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://litsanleandro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[contextly_sidebar id=”YqOCLvbClRgenP1yUjWpv2IXnV7svZzb”]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve actually been a 35, 40-year resident of San Leandro,” Kennedy says. “And it became clear that these industrial cities — that are really not going to be (the first) on the list, of course, for the broadband, the fiber — we’re really going to suffer as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, about 140 businesses connect to that fiber. They range from tech startups sharing rooms to solar and video companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the businesses were already based in San Leandro. 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This part of the building is known as The Gate\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If your ideas revolve at all around manufacturing, then San Leandro is a good place to look.’\u003ccite>— Pat Kennedy,\u003cbr>\nCreator of Lit San Leandro\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.typeamachines.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Type A Machines\u003c/a> moved into The Gate in January. The San Francisco-based company designs its 3-D printers in the city but builds them in San Leandro. Company officials say they were enticed by the broadband connection and the opportunity to grow in The Gate, and the company began renting three offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we expand, we’ll actually add additional lines in this space,” says Type A founder Andrew Rutter as he stands on the company’s production floor. “And so the idea is that we’ll be able to expand and fill this and really turn it into a really high-volume production space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all goes well, Type A could more than double its workforce in San Leandro, to around 60. And they’ll be looking for more space. “It’s really hard to find a space where you can expand that rapidly and by such a big margin,” says Rutter. “Because most places, they just don’t have the additional space lying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro has that space. At one time, there were more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs here. In 2013, only about 6,800 of those jobs remained. Industrial-zoned land makes up nearly a quarter of the city, much of that space now used for storage, which doesn’t provide much employment. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanleandro2035.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2013-10-02_NextGenerationWorkplacDistrict_Complete-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2013 report\u003c/a> calls these areas “neither memorable nor particularly pleasant to get around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=13963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a presentation by City Manager Chris Zapata\u003c/a> calls broadband “a laser cheetah with explosive power accelerating economic growth.” San Leandro’s new chief innovation officer, Deborah Acosta, frames the issue another way: “how do we reenergize this industrial space to actually become alive again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta tries to convince businesses like Type A to set up shop here. She’s probably the only city employee with bright red streaks running through in her hair, and she says that touch puts people on notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see my red hair, they’re going, ‘Holy smokes, something’s different here. I think I need to pay attention,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that San Leandro’s economic development plan has included language about becoming a tech hub since the late ’90s. But that dream “sat there as words on the page until Lit San Leandro came along. Suddenly they realized, ‘Wait a minute, we don’t have to talk about this anymore. We’re actually there, we’re actually part of it. I mean, we have to do something with it now. But we can’t complain that we don’t have the infrastructure,’” Acosta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that infrastructure, San Leandro hopes, can bring back jobs and reorient the city’s economy. The city, Pat Kennedy and the federal government have invested more than $13 million trying to create a tech hub in San Leandro. And Acosta says about 90 jobs have been created by Lit San Leandro since it launched in March 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might seem like a modest return. But Acosta and Kennedy think they’re on to something. Next up in San Leandro are three brand new office buildings next to BART — more than half a million square feet — with those ultrafast connections. Kennedy’s company, OSIsoft, will move in as the anchor tenant, and Acosta says that investment in the project will exceed $200 million and create 2,000 new jobs. The city is convinced it will fill up with tech startups priced out of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.westgatesanleandro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Gate\u003c/a>, a former Dodge auto plant that’s now a shopping mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">Now, where cars were once built, the second story of the former plant houses more than 100 offices that can be connected to the fiber loop. This part of the building is known as The Gate\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If your ideas revolve at all around manufacturing, then San Leandro is a good place to look.’\u003ccite>— Pat Kennedy,\u003cbr>\nCreator of Lit San Leandro\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.typeamachines.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Type A Machines\u003c/a> moved into The Gate in January. The San Francisco-based company designs its 3-D printers in the city but builds them in San Leandro. Company officials say they were enticed by the broadband connection and the opportunity to grow in The Gate, and the company began renting three offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we expand, we’ll actually add additional lines in this space,” says Type A founder Andrew Rutter as he stands on the company’s production floor. “And so the idea is that we’ll be able to expand and fill this and really turn it into a really high-volume production space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all goes well, Type A could more than double its workforce in San Leandro, to around 60. And they’ll be looking for more space. “It’s really hard to find a space where you can expand that rapidly and by such a big margin,” says Rutter. “Because most places, they just don’t have the additional space lying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro has that space. At one time, there were more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs here. In 2013, only about 6,800 of those jobs remained. 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The blog \u003ca href=\"http://liveworkoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Work Oakland\u003c/a> has created a map showing where all these new tech companies are popping up in the city. The city’s emerging tech industry is trying to cultivate a new brand — one that’s more diverse and has a better relationship with the community. Entrepreneurs, investors and activists are hoping to avoid the “pricing out” of locals and cultural displacement happening in parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most of the new start-up founders in Oakland, Daniel Rodriguez and his business partner aren’t originally from the city. They came to the Bay Area from Colombia, and they expected to end up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.’\u003ccite>Mitchell Kapor,\u003cbr>\nVenture capitalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When we thought about the U.S., we thought about San Francisco, like the mecca of the Silicon Valley,” he says. “But when we got there, the price of the rent was so high. Even sharing a room was high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead, the pair moved into West Oakland, a place they had heard about from others in the tech world. Now, they run their start-up out of Impact Hub Oakland. It’s a new shared co-working and event space at Grand and Broadway that’s buzzing with people trying to create the next big thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Kapor, a venture capitalist also based in Oakland, thinks some of them will succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a> is just down the street from Impact Hub, says tech can have a different culture here than it does in San Francisco. He thinks it can be more diverse, socially aware and connected to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not want to be a Pollyanna. I think change is always a challenging process,” Kapor says, then adds: “We are already off to a different start here in Oakland, and that bodes well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”5tqal8nysLGHFvvZWZptXWpSCNlQZUcE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrepreneurs and investors like Kapor are trying to grow local talent. The Hidden Genius Project and \u003ca href=\"http://www.blackgirlscode.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Girls Code\u003c/a> are initiatives in Oakland that help African American youth get involved in tech. Google just gave $500,000 to a charity that teaches low-income kids coding and business skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizer Olis Simmons says it’s nice if a few local kids get to learn coding, but that’s not nearly enough if Oakland wants to head off the kind of displacement happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tokenism,” she says. “It’s marketing. It’s public relations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons heads \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Uprising\u003c/a>, a neighborhood center in East Oakland, far from downtown. Unemployment there hovers around 20 percent, and the school next door doesn’t have reliable high-speed internet. In order for real change to happen, she says, Oakland needs money for social programs and improving public schools—real investments that would help stabilize her neighborhood. She points out that Google and other big tech companies send billions of dollars in profits overseas to avoid taxes that fund services and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, if you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new,” Simmons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says if that happens in Oakland, there will be conflict, and it will be more severe than the clash over tech in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to say this. It breaks my heart to say this,” Simmons says. “San Francisco had a very long ramp of displacement and gentrification, that by the time things exploded, the vast majority of the poor people and the people of color were long gone. That’s not true in Oakland. It will happen much more rapidly and it will be a much grittier experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you don’t invest, then over the long haul what you do is you transfer ownership of the city to someone new.’\u003ccite>Ollis Simmons,\u003cbr>\nYouth Uprisings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Economist Carol Zabin thinks that distributing the wealth generated by tech could ease the tensions. Zabin is the research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. One of the quickest ways to do that, she says, would be raising minimum wage. Higher pay would ensure that when the cost of living increases, regular folks could afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about getting into the tech jobs.” Zabin says. “It’s also about improving the jobs that tech creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabin’s colleague Enrico Moretti calculates that each tech job eventually creates five additional jobs outside of the innovation sector. The wealth that tech generates leads to the employment of more people in areas like food service and construction. That’s why Zabin says other tech hubs should follow Seattle’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle is increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour. San Francisco has a similar measure on this November’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are the economic costs of that?” Zabin asks. “It means those wealthy tech workers have to pay more for their restaurant meals and their retail expenditures, and their services, and not very much more — 1 or 2 or 3 percentage points more when we get a wage jump of 50 or 60 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start-up scene is relatively new in Oakland, but the city is already grappling with wage inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Oakland will ask voters to decide whether to increase minimum wage to $12.25 an hour, and in West Oakland, there are protests against two new redevelopment zones that community members fear will speed up gentrification. As more start-ups move in, locals are wondering what roll tech companies will play in these issues.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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NBA legend Bill Russell lived in West Oakland, and the Black Panthers had an office on Peralta Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the clubs closed decades ago and Bill Russell is long gone. In their wake, a new wave of residents are sweeping into the neighborhood — many of them white, and many of them coming from San Francisco because of the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 2010 census, Oakland has more white inhabitants than black residents for the first time since the 1970s. Neighborhoods have been changing for decades, but the expanding tech industry is speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, sky-high rents are pushing people out of San Francisco, with many ending up in West Oakland, the first BART stop on the east side of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few decades, West Oakland has seen an increase of abandoned factories and shuttered businesses. Danita Robinson, a member of the Center Street Baptist Church on Tenth Street, says for a long time nobody would invest in West Oakland. But she says there is now more development in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141920\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/EsthersOrbitRoom-640x593.jpg\" alt=\"Esther's Orbit Room\" width=\"378\" height=\"351\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-defunct Esther’s Orbit Room on Seventh Street in West Oakland. The unassuming club played host to many greats of jazz, blues and R&B, including Etta James, Al Green, B.B. King and Tina Turner. (Photo: RadioNicole/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, developers recently built a high-end condo complex in West Oakland called Zephyr Gate. It’s a couple of blocks long and within walking distance from the West Oakland BART stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so abandoned for such a long time,” Robinson says. “Now it is all nice over there and Mr. Google and Mr. Doctor are living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to to an old nickname for one section of the neighborhood, she asks, “What could we have put back there outside of these condos that would have been beneficial to the West Oakland area, especially what we call the lower bottoms down here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenna Stormwell-Gougis lives in a Victorian across from the Center Street Baptist Church. She bought the house a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the only white person on this block 10 years ago,” she says, “and now, I would say the block is 40 percent white.” She says lots of new people are riding by on bikes and popping in and out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danita Robinson doesn’t think of the newcomers as West Oaklanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call them San Franciscans,” she says. “Why else would you be moving to this area and not another area of Oakland? Because it’s three blocks from the BART station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”jYESxOMr9ASis6f6knorcmBnwUnzx4Ye”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawn Phillips is the program co-director at Causa Justa::Just Cause. His organization published a report that shows some market-rate rents in West Oakland to be higher than in Rockridge and the Oakland Hills — two of the most affluent areas in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we looked at that data it blew us away,” Phillips says. “We did not know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent is rising throughout Oakland. The real estate company Trulia says rents increased 10.8 percent in May from the year before. That is the third highest rent hike in the country behind San Diego and San Francisco. The median price for a two-bedroom is now $2,450 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a regional pressure that is being created,” Phillips says. “It is rippling out from San Francisco.” Soon he says, it will hit neighborhoods farther out in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In gathering data for their report, Causa Justa::Just Cause found an increase in the eviction and displacement of Africans-Americans from Oakland. Phillips says the current demographic change is just the final stage after decades of disinvestment in the area: “We understand gentrification to be pretty long-term, long-evolving historic process that is actually very systematic in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141922\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/10thWood-640x570.jpg\" alt=\"10th and Wood\" width=\"340\" height=\"302\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10th and Wood, a new sandwich shop near the Zephyr Gate condo complex. (Photo: Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ron Lindsey can tell you first-hand how the long-term process played out in West Oakland, where he grew up. His father and uncle worked at the Navy shipyard. He saw that get shut down and the factory jobs shipped overseas. Then the businesses on Seventh Street started closing. He can still point out where they all were — a clothing store, a shoe shine parlor, barber shops, candy shops and night clubs. “All of these were black businesses,” Lindsey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After companies outsourced the neighborhood’s factory jobs, the tax base eroded and social services were cut. Unemployment and violence spiked. Lindsey watched as highways and train lines carved up the neighborhood. The elevated BART rails got built right over Seventh Street. Now where there was once music, there is the screech of trains, drowning out everything below. People left. Eventually, so did Lindsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips says gentrification is this whole progression, from job loss to neighborhood decay to redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danita Robinson says even though things are changing, there is no way for her to move up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be low-rent,” Robinson says. “I don’t want to be low-income. 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