[CPEO-IRF] Oakland Army Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Base Options

Oakland NovoMetro (CA)
October 23, 2007

Since its closure in 1999, the decommissioned Oakland Army Base, a plot 
of land sandwiched between freeways, the Port, and a wastewater 
treatment facility, has languished largely unused. More than half of the 
land was given to the Port, which they are using for expansion and a new 
intermodal rail terminal. On Tuesday, the City Council’s Community and 
Economic Development Committee will consider what to do with the 
remaining 165 acres belonging to the City.

The City has flirted with different ideas for the land over the past few 
years. They’ve already made a commitment to an auto mall on a portion of 
the site. They spent two years negotiating with the Wayans Brothers for 
an ambitious, but ultimately unrealizable movie studio and retail 
development. The Hollywood moguls officially ended their negotiations 
with the City in August.

The City Council has an important decision to make. They will have to 
craft a plan for the area that maximizes jobs and tax revenue from the 
acreage while adhering to pre-existing visions put forth in the City’s 
1998 General Plan, and also considering the needs of the neighboring 
West Oakland community.

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For the entire article, see
http://novometro.com/news_details.php?news_id=2417&is_break=Y

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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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