When Anaheim city leaders were trying to woo Angels Baseball back to the bargaining table after stadium lease talks melted down in 2014, they did it with a video.

The nostalgia-tinged video, which was never publicly released, portrayed an active, vibrant neighborhood of shops, restaurants, homes and offices that would complement a stadium packed with loyal Angels fans.

And although the video is several years old, that vision for the city’s Platinum Triangle – with Angel Stadium at its heart – remains the same today, city spokesman Mike Lyster said.

“What that video shows is the incredible opportunity we have around the stadium,” Lyster said. “A lot of that is still consistent with our vision for the Platinum Triangle: a thriving urban district of homes, shops and offices.”

The city anticipates the 173-acre stadium district, the bulk of which is the stadium and its parking lots, would provide the vast majority of the commercial space – shops, restaurants and other businesses – in the Platinum Triangle, as well as nearly 6,000 more homes.

Lyster said the video was produced by a consultant who also created the renderings of how the stadium neighborhood could someday look that were released at the time; he didn’t have information on what it cost.

After a few historical images of the city and black-and-white footage of a long-ago Angels game, the city’s video asks, “What if instead of a parking lot, there was a vibrant mixed-use baseball neighborhood surrounding the stadium?”

It then shows the stadium property’s footprint overlaid onto the areas around some of the nation’s iconic ballparks: Boston’s Fenway Park, Chicago’s Wrigley Field and what is now called Oracle Park in San Francisco where “great baseball neighborhoods” come up almost to the stadium walls.

In between renderings of a future stadium neighborhood featuring advertising-adorned high-rise buildings, landscaped balconies and a streetcar, smiling people are seen strolling, eating at sidewalk cafes and carrying shopping bags. Finally, the video waxes romantic and concludes: “Anaheim and the Angels belong together.”

At the time the city made the video, the parties involved weren’t feeling so fondly toward each other. In fact, a series of letters between Anaheim and Angels officials from mid-2013 to late 2014 highlight team officials’ increasing annoyance with the city’s suggestions for possible deal points.

An April 2014 letter from Angels President John Carpino to then-city manager Paul Emery said the team was “concerned about the direction of our negotiations,” accused the city of ignoring a recent team proposal and criticized a draft of a city-commissioned appraisal of the stadium land.

Any details of proposals each side made are blacked out in the letters, which were obtained under the California Public Records Act.

After months of fruitless talks, an attorney for the Angels wrote the city in September 2014 to end negotiations and cancel an agreement that outlined a framework for them.

Three months later, Emery sent team owner Arte Moreno the video with a letter reiterating the city’s interest in reaching a lease agreement that would foster creation of “a one-of-a-kind urban mecca” – development that would help pay for an estimated $130 million to $150 million in repairs and upgrades to the now 53-year-old stadium.

Even after another attempt at negotiations, nothing happened to advance the project, and last fall the team notified the city it would opt out of the remainder of its lease. Then came the November election of Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, who rushed to reassure the team it is wanted in the city and that he was ready to restart talks.

The city expects results of a new appraisal of the stadium property later this summer, and the team has been working with a consultant on potential development of the site. Anaheim officials expect a proposal from the Angels within months, ahead of an end-of-year deadline for the team to make a final decision on whether it will remain in its namesake stadium.