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49ers Hire Stadium Expert for Candlestick Point Stadium/Mall Project.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998--The San Francisco 49ers
    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in San Francisco, California, while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California.
     today announced hiring John Wasson For people with surname Wasson, see .
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    Wasson led around 200 warriors, who joined Pontiac's forces on 31 May 1763, remaining as part of the siege until it was
    , a leading stadium construction expert, to head the team's efforts to build a new stadium at Candlestick Candlestick

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     Point.

    Wasson, one of a handful of acknowledged experts in the design and construction of sports stadiums, was tapped by the 49ers to assemble and lead the architecture, engineering and construction team through the design, pre-construction and construction phases of the project. Wasson's job will also entail entail, in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations. The object of entail is to preserve large estates in land from the disintegration that is caused by equal inheritance by all the heirs and by the ordinary  working with developers of a proposed 1.4 million square feet retail center at the Candlestick Point site.

    "John Wasson is the Steve Young of stadium construction," said 49er President Larry Thrailkill. "He has the knowhow and the skill to turn the vision of a new San Francisco 49ers stadium into a reality."

    Wasson brings extensive experience to the 49ers project. Most recently, he was in charge of design and construction of the 49,000 seat, retractable-dome Bank One Ballpark for the Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback.
    The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League.
    . The $360 million stadium -- complete with a swimming pool behind center field -- opened to much fanfare in March of this year.

    He also served as the lead representative for the Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a 1970 expansion team and won their first Eastern Conference Championship in 2007.  on construction of Gund Arena, a 20,500 seat, $135 million basketball and multi-use arena.

    "The challenge we face is building a suitable home for the San Francisco 49ers and their fans," said Wasson. "Ultimately, we will only be successful if we build a stadium for this world-class football team that San Francisco 49ers fans can be proud of."

    Wasson is charged with building a 72,000 seat stadium complete with luxury suites, a club level and great sight lines from every point in the fan area. In addition, he must preserve and prepare the site for a proposed 1.4 million square feet retail center.
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