Here are five things you need to know about John Loar, who wants to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville:

1. The 59-year-old businessman from the San Francisco Bay area moved to Nashville on Dec. 1 with his wife Monica to be closer to their daughter Mackenzie, who is a student at the University of Kentucky. His son Connor played baseball at Cal-Davis and plans to move to Nashville when he graduates in June. Monica attended elementary school in Nashville and also spent time in Cookeville as a child.

2. Loar was involved with Ken Behring in the Seattle Seahawks acquisition and near-relocation to Los Angeles, as well as the team’s ultimate sale to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 1997.

3. His background is in real estate operations and acquisitions. From 1987-98, Loar was vice president of Blackhawk Corp., which developed master-planned gated communities in Contra Costa County and Riverside, California, as well as an active-adult retirement community in Brentwood, California.

4. Loar wants capacity in his proposed Nashville stadium to be 42,000 to honor Jackie Robinson, who wore No. 42 and broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Additionally, he wants the stadium plan to include a satellite branch of the Negro League Baseball Museum – the museum is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

5. From 2007-12, he served as managing director and asset manager for Red Bird Cinema, which partnered with “Entourage” actor Adrian Grenier on two documentaries. The company also owns the rights to two Billy Bob Thornton scripts and the life story of retired boxer “Sugar” Ray Leonard. Loar is also Leonard’s financial adviser.

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