[CPEO-BIF] "Senior apartment project breaks ground at Richmond [California] site of Japanese nurseries"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senior apartment project breaks ground at Richmond site of Japanese nurseries
Miraflores Senior Apartments is part of a greater, 14-acre, master-planned development to include a market-rate, homeownership project

By TOM LOCHNER 
East Bay Times (CA)
May 23, 2017 

RICHMOND — Ground has broken on Miraflores Senior Apartments, an 80-unit, nonprofit project on the former site of Japanese family-owned flower nurseries that survived beyond World War II.

The project will occupy a single, two-story wood-frame structure, on a 1.56-acre parcel at 4855 Wall Ave. at South 49th Street just west of Interstate 80. All but one of the apartments will be one-bedroom, with a kitchen, living area and full bathroom, each totaling a little over 500 square feet, and will be accessible to people in wheelchairs.  The remaining apartment will be for an onsite manager. There will be a community room, outdoor courtyard garden, computer lab, fitness room and laundry room.

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Additionally, years of use of pesticides and other substances by the nurseries contaminated the soil and groundwater, requiring extensive cleanup, including soil excavation, groundwater monitoring and removal of underground storage tanks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/23/senior-apartment-project-breaks-ground-at-richmond-site-of-japanese-nurseries/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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