2020 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 16:40:09 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Housing development at former Concord Naval Weapons Station "might never happen"
 
Crucial 13,000-unit Concord housing development might never happen
Heated debate over labor and budget could tank major housing project

By Adam Brinklow  
Curbed San Francisco (CA)
March 5, 2020

In terms of Bay Area housing development, the Concord Naval Weapons Station is the mother lode, a proposal of such proportions that even calling it a mega-project doesn’t do it justice.

On this defunct Contra Costa County military base, omnipresent housing developer Lennar plans a mixed-use project that would create over 13,000 homes, the result of years of planning, arguing, negotiation, and public pressure from every side of the issue.

But the entire project could fall apart in just a few days, as a longstanding impasse over labor and Lennar’s multibillion budget could leave Concord with nothing to show for it all except a decaying base and a ticket all the way back to square one.

…

For the entire article, see
https://sf.curbed.com/2020/3/5/21166075/concord-naval-weapons-site-13000-homes-lennar

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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