[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Oakland Army Base (CA) conversion approved

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakland Army Base plan OKd by City Council

Matthai Kuruvila
San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2012

The Oakland City Council late Tuesday approved a series of agreements  
with developers on the conversion of the former Oakland Army Base. It  
will be the city's largest development in decades.

The proposed project intends to remake the 366-acre base into a  
shipping, packaging and distribution facility, augmenting the  
adjacent Port of Oakland.

Though the $484 million first phase of the project had overcome a  
series of hurdles during the past four years, it became the center of  
a fight over how many of the project's jobs would go to Oakland  
residents. The council vote was critical to securing a $242 million  
grant from state officials, who, city staff said, had set a Tuesday  
deadline to show that the slow-moving project was moving forward.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/20/ 
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See also the earlier article,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/18/ 
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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>
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