{"id":245436,"date":"2026-03-31T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:37:07","slug":"golden-gate-fields-future-owners-want-to-turn-it-into-a-public-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245436\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Fields&#8217; future owners want to turn it into a public park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Gate Fields will soon be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/racetrack-auction-offers-historical-bay-area-items-19728252.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under new management<\/a>, a national conservation nonprofit with headquarters in San Francisco, with the goal of transforming it into a public park.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust for Public Land confirmed to\u00a0SFGATE on Monday that it agreed to terms of a deal to purchase the closed-down horse racetrack, which is located in Albany and Berkeley, for $175 million. The option agreement was completed alongside the East Bay Regional Park District. Bay Area News Group\u2019s Paul Rogers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/31\/environmental-group-signs-deal-to-buy-golden-gate-fields-horse-track-with-plans-to-create-huge-new-east-bay-waterfront-park\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had the news first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolden Gate Fields offers a truly generational opportunity to reimagine a world-class bayside park for the Bay Area,\u201d Guillermo Rodriguez, the trust\u2019s vice president of the Pacific Region and its California state director, said in a news release. \u201cWith the East Bay Regional Park District and a wide range of public and community partners, we have the chance to expand shoreline access, restore vital ecosystems, and create a place where hundreds of thousands of residents can connect with the outdoors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The historic Bay Area race track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/racetrack-auction-offers-historical-bay-area-items-19728252.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed down in 2024<\/a> after more than 80 years of operation and held its last race on June 9 of that year. Over its last five years of existence, it was the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sports\/article\/golden-gate-fields-closes-horse-deaths-19507200.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than a quarter of all racehorse deaths<\/a> in the state of California. Golden Gate Fields\u2019 previous owner, the Stronach Group, also owns the Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.<\/p>\n<p>Its future will ideally be a touch more animal-friendly. The TPL and EBRPD plan to turn the property into a contiguous stretch of public land connecting public parks such as Albany Beach, McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, Albany Bulb and the Brooks Island Regional Preserve. That plan likely won\u2019t come true until the 2030s, as the property won\u2019t be ready for public use for about five years, according to Bay Area News Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Fields will soon be\u00a0under new management, a national conservation nonprofit with headquarters in San Francisco, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,1693,1692,2225],"class_list":{"0":"post-245436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news","11":"tag-sfglocal","12":"tag-sfgnews","13":"tag-sfgsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}