[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA) "could be transformed into 13, 000 new homes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Navy weapons station full of WWII-era ammunition bunkers could be transformed into 13,000 new homes in the Bay Area

By Aria Bendix 
Business Insiderf
November 5, 2019

San Francisco's housing shortage has gotten so dire that developers are increasingly eyeing old military sites. 

For the last several years, the development company Lennar has been building a 12,000-home community at the Hunters Point Shipyard, the former site of a top-secret nuclear-testing facility operated by the US Navy. Across the bay, Lennar is also participating in a joint venture to add 8,000 residential units to Treasure Island, another former Naval base. 

Now the company has set its sights on a naval weapons station in Concord, a city less than an hour from San Francisco. The land is scattered with dozens of empty bunkers that once housed World War II munitions, but Lennar wants to turn it into a full-fledged community with 13,000 homes. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-weapons-station-bay-area-ammunition-bunkers-new-homes-2019-11

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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