[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Oakland [CA] celebrates Army Base redevelopment"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakland celebrates Army Base redevelopment

By Matthew Artz
Oakland Tribune
November 1, 2013

OAKLAND -- The city's bid to restore a "working waterfront" took a  
big leap forward Friday as construction officially began on a $500  
million project to transform much of the long-shuttered Oakland Army  
Base into a logistics and warehousing center.

Although it lacks the glitz of a new ballpark or convention center,  
the decidedly blue-collar plan for the former base is seen as a  
cornerstone project for the city. The Oakland Global Trade and  
Logistics Center is expected to help the adjacent Port of Oakland  
become more competitive, reduce truck pollution throughout the city  
and generate several thousand jobs, replacing many of those lost in  
the 1999 base closure.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24437293/oakland-celebrates-army- 
base-redevelopment

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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
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