“That meeting would have occurred quietly until a member of council decided to discuss this with the press,” Gecker wrote.

He also said that, to his understanding, the city “does not have site control in the Bottom.”

“If the deadline of having a new stadium in 2016 is real, then the Bottom plan must get moving or the administration should look elsewhere,” Gecker wrote. “The Boulevard site, already owned by the city, is the obvious place to look.”

Gecker said he knows Berry has been “working hard” to build a stadium in the Bottom and wished Berry the “best of luck.”

“Experience has taught that personal attacks begin when challenges on the merits are failing,” Gecker said.

Rebkee has not responded to multiple requests for more details on the Boulevard idea.

Though the Shockoe plan was still being discussed behind closed doors, the one-page, handwritten motion passed by the authority board held new detail.

A letter of intent for the “purchase” of land would be struck with Harry and Betty Loving LLC, an entity representing the family that owns most of the privately held land needed for the Shockoe stadium.