[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Labor dispute holds up redevelopment of Concord Naval Weapons Station, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fate of Concord Naval Weapons Station uncertain as council weighs in on struggle between labor, developer
The Building Trades Council and the master developer, Lennar, have reached an impasse in negotiating a labor agreement for the project

By ANNIE SCIACCA
Bay Area News Group
January 6, 2020 

CONCORD - The fate of the redevelopment of the Concord Naval Weapons Station into 13,000 housing units and millions of square feet of office, retail and campus space is uncertain amid a labor dispute that has halted work on the project.

Both the Contra Costa Building Trades Council and Lennar Concord - part of homebuilding company Lennar/Five Point that was chosen to be the master developer for the first 500-acre phase of the project - have indicated that any progress in negotiating a labor agreement under certain city-approved terms is not “likely,” according to city documents.

While labor representatives want Lennar to promise to use a certain amount of union labor across various trades for its project, Lennar says using that much union labor is too expensive, and the parties are at a standstill.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/05/fate-of-concord-naval-weapons-station-uncertain-as-council-weighs-in-on-struggle-between-labor-developer/

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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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