[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "At Oakland's [CA] Abandoned Army Base, a Jobs Plan Brings Hope to Locals"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At Oakland's Abandoned Army Base, a Jobs Plan Brings Hope to Locals
A new $1 billion plan to turn a vacant base into a shipping and  
logistics center will create thousands of jobs for the Oakland  
residents who need them most.


by Mark Andrew Boyer
Yes! Magazine
October 22, 2012

At the former Oakland Army Base in Oakland, Calif., it's difficult to  
tell where the old parking lots start and end. Sunburned weeds grow  
through cracks in the asphalt next to a few shabby-looking buildings  
and palm trees that still stand. All of them are surrounded by chain- 
link fences.

It's not a scene that suggests much in the way of change, but the  
base, which is located just across the street from the active  
container cranes at the Port of Oakland, is about to get a radical  
renovation.

This summer, the Oakland City Council approved a $1 billion  
redevelopment plan that will transform the site into a state-of-the- 
art shipping and logistics center. Under the plan, developers  
Prologis and California Capital and Investment Group (CCIG) will  
lease nearly 130 acres of the 366-acre former base to create a  
facility that provides packaging, shipping, and distribution for  
goods shipped to and from the nation’s fifth busiest port. Advocates  
and community members who fought for the plan's approval hope the  
nearly 5,000 jobs created by the warehouse center - half of which  
will be reserved for locals - will catalyze economic growth in a city  
long plagued by poverty and unemployment.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/at-oaklands-abandoned-army- 
base-a-jobs-plan-brings-hope-to-locals

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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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