The stadium is situated at Candlestick Point on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay.

During that time, the park became known as '3Com Park at Candlestick Point'.

Most of the land at Candlestick Point was purchased from Charles Harney, a local contractor.

In 2002, the naming rights deal expired, and the park then became officially known as San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point.

Plans were underway to construct a new 68,000-seat stadium at Candlestick Point.

The creek flows downhill towards Candlestick Point, mostly through underground culverts beneath private property and public right-of-way.

The results are better with "Candlestick Point," a series devoted to an area near San Francisco that urban renewal has overlooked.

Where the "Park City" pictures work better as a book, "Candlestick Point" seems designed for the wall.

The 49ers have been pursuing a new stadium since 1997, when a plan for a stadium and a mall at Candlestick Point passed a public vote.

San Francisco voters in 1997 approved $100 million in city spending to build a new stadium and an attached shopping mall at Candlestick Point.