Byline: Julie Patel
Oct. 10--With the owner of the Great America theme park continuing to raise concerns about plans for a San Francisco 49ers stadium next door, team officials Tuesday said they would consider buying the Santa Clara attraction to move the deal ahead.
Buying the park -- which leases city-owned land, including a parking lot proposed as the stadium site -- would help the team overcome a massive obstacle in its plans to build an $854 million stadium in the city's entertainment district.
"It came up in one of our discussions," 49ers spokeswoman Lisa Lang said. "We're a football team, not a theme-park operator, but if this is the barrier to getting the ...