[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Vallejo’s Mare Island [CA] megaproject envisions thousands of new homes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘Economic engine’: Vallejo’s Mare Island megaproject envisions thousands of new homes

By J.K. Dineen and Janelle Bitker
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
November 26, 2019 

Developer and winemaker Dave Phinney imagines that Vallejo’s Mare Island will one day have as much bustle and busyness as it did during World War II.

At its peak during World War II, 300 buses a day carried thousands of shipyard workers to Mare Island, a 3.5-mile long peninsula at the confluence of the Napa River and San Pablo Bay. The island was humming - it was home to a 452-bed hospital as well as dry docks that could accommodate up to six large Navy ships at a time. As many as 50,000 employees worked on the island.

Phinney, a partner in the Nimitz Group, which is charged with redeveloping Mare Island, envisions an island with “tens of thousands” of new housing units and upward of 1,000 businesses. There will be schools - possibly a college campus - and copious waterfront parkland. As many as 60 historic buildings will be lovingly restored. It will be bike- and pedestrian-friendly. Water taxis and ferries - the island already has ferry service - will whisk residents and workers to San Francisco and elsewhere.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Economic-engine-Vallejo-s-Mare-Island-14862416.php

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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
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