[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Mare Island (CA) "Town Center"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wrecking crews make room
Town Center will replace old Mare Island buildings

By RACHEL RASKIN-ZRIHEN
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
September 9, 2008

The much-anticipated Mare Island Town Center project is inching forward 
with the demolition of several old military buildings, a Lennar Mare 
Island spokesman said Monday.

Lennar Mare Island, LLC, the island's master developer, is razing four 
former military buildings as part of the ongoing work for what will be 
Mare Island's new commercial core, called the Town Center, said LMI 
spokesman Jason Keadjian.

It's the most ambitious commercial development project in Vallejo in 
three decades, and is key to the island's reuse plan, he said.

Following the 1996 Mare Island Naval Shipyard's closure, the city chose 
LMI in 1997 to implement a reuse plan. The plan includes roughly 7 
million square feet of commercial and industrial space, 1,400 homes and 
many recreational amenities, Keadjian said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_10418972

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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
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