[CPEO-BIF] "Moffett Gateway" site, Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

"Moffett Gateway" site slated for office, hotel City-owned property  
could bring in $2 million annually in revenue

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
November 13, 2013

The City Council decided Tuesday that a new hotel and office space  
would be the best use of a forested piece of city-owned property  
along Highway 101 at Moffett Boulevard.

With Mayor John Inks opposed, the council voted 6-1 to seek hotel and  
office development proposals for the 6.69-acre site -- which also  
runs along Stevens Creek. It was a Santa Clara County-owned vector  
control yard until it was bought by the city for $9.5 million in 2009.

The City Council has long had the goal of leasing it to a developer  
to pad the city's budget, which has seen costs growing faster than  
revenues for years.

...

Tests found relatively small amounts of the toxic solvent  
trichloroethylene (TCE) in the soil and groundwater on the site,  
cleanup of which could be costly for the city if a polluter isn't found.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/11/13/moffett-gateway-site-slated- 
for-office-hotel

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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