[CPEO-BIF] Richmond (CA) condos at former Ford site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Richmond Shoreline Condos Face Opposition

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
March 24, 2006

It's a familiar story in Richmond. A developer wants to build expensive 
condos on what looks like a prime shoreline spot but there's one catch.

There's nasty stuff in the soil.

Unlike Campus Bay to the southeast - the site of a stalled 1,331-unit 
condo and apartment project - the earth on the western side of Marina 
Bay hasn't been polluted by a century or more of chemical manufacturing.

The culprit at the proposed Westshore Marina Project was a Ford Motor 
Co. plant that turned out cars and trucks before and after World War II 
and 60,000 tanks and other military vehicles during the war itself.

If Toll Brothers has their way, the firm will build 269 condos on a 
unique waterfront site with choice views of San Francisco Bay, a 
complement to their other developments in Richmond - including Point 
Richmond Shores, another controversial project at Brickyard Cove.

...

For the entire article, see
http://suburban.gmnews.com/news/2006/0323/Front_Page/001.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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