[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Report on California jobs; Oakland Army Base

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report examines job impact of California army base redevelopment

by Marie-Anne Hogarth
East Bay Business Times (CA)
June 25, 2008

A report released Wednesday demonstrates that military base 
redevelopments in California fail to create "family-sustaining" jobs or 
address poverty.

The report by the nonprofit labor group Partnership for Working Families 
arrives as Oakland city officials this July will select three or four 
companies from a pool of 13 that responded to a Request for 
Qualifications to develop 108 acres of the city's former army base.

Among the choices is the master developer of the nearly-100-acre former 
Navy Fleet Industrial Supply Center in Alameda, Catellus, a company 
owned by Denver-based ProLogis. Another contender is Federal Development 
LLC, which is working on the redevelopment of Fort Ord near Monterey.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/06/23/daily53.html?t=printable

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