[CPEO-MEF] RESERVES: Camp Parks (CA) exchange - land for development

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Army agrees to land swap deal in Dublin

Development company to build $80 million worth of facilities in  
return for 180 acres of land.

By Robert Jordan
Contra Costa Times (CA)
March 7, 2011

DUBLIN -- After nearly a decade of discussions, the Army announced a  
land transfer agreement Thursday that will turn over about 7.5  
percent of Camp Parks to a Southern California development company in  
exchange for a face-lift for the aging reserve base.

The Army agreed to transfer 180 acres off Dublin Boulevard in fives  
phases. In return, SunCal will build $80 million in new facilities  
and upgrade infrastructure at the base that dates back to the 1940s.

SunCal, one of 150 companies interested in developing the land, and  
the Army reached the deal in March about the same time SunCal  
submitted its proposal to land a second campus that Lawrence Berkeley  
National Laboratory is planning to open by December 2015.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_17796934

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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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