[CPEO-IRF] Future of Alameda Point (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hope alive after project falls apart
Groundwork has been laid for successful Alameda Point development, 
officials say

By Kelly Rayburn
Inside Bay Area/Oakland Tribune (CA)
September 23, 2006

ALAMEDA - City officials and a development group that included Shea and 
Centex Homes spent five years and millions of dollars working to come to 
an agreement among themselves and the U.S. Navy to rebuild Alameda's old 
Naval Air Station.

This week, those efforts fell apart.

Yet, a general consensus among many city leaders is that while the 
withdrawal of the development group — Alameda Point Community Partners — 
was a setback, hope is not lost for the future of Alameda Point.

Much of the groundwork is already laid for successful development, they say.

"We're not altogether in base-conversion purgatory," said City 
Councilman Tony Daysog.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_4386130

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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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