[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Oakland Army Base [CA] to be used for port operations"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakland Army Base to be used for port operations

Carolyn Jones
San Francisco Chronicle
January 25, 2012

Ferris wheels, a casino, auto malls - just about the only idea not  
proposed for the old Oakland Army Base was a three-ring circus.

But in the end, Oakland chose a decidedly unglamorous fate for the  
330-acre site just south of the Bay Bridge: port operations.

Thirteen years after the Army left, Oakland and its port are moving  
ahead with plans to turn the property into a freight transfer area  
for ships, trains and trucks. The plan will bring thousands of jobs  
and millions in tax revenue to a city and region that sorely need it,  
officials said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/24/ 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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