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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 project done, then it's a notion we would consider." A spokesman for the park's owner, Ohio-based Cedar Fair, said late Tuesday that the company would release a statement today explaining its opposition to the $854 million stadium proposal. Because of the terms of its lease with the city, if Cedar Fair refuses to sign off on a stadium, the proposal ultimately could be scuttled. -- San Jose Mercury News

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