[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: How housing proposal "fell apart" at former Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How the Bay Area's biggest housing development fell apart in 2020

By Adam Brinklow
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 25, 2021 

How do you kickstart a historically ambitious, multibillion-dollar housing development while the world’s economies remain paralyzed?

That’s the dilemma facing Concord after 2020, a year that not only dashed financial markets and upended everyday life across the Bay Area, but also wrecked this city’s critical redevelopment project at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a huge disused military facility that could be its only means of significantly expanding housing stock.

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The weapons station is a Superfund site, and efforts to clean up toxic leftovers from its decades of service as a munitions depot have lasted nearly 40 years. Even so, the city hopes to eventually create 13,000 new homes here (equivalent to 28% of the 46,500 homes Concord had in 2019), with a quarter of them priced as below-market-rate housing, plus 2,700 acres of parkland and 6 million square feet of commercial space.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/concord-weapons-station-bayarea-affordable-housing-15883163.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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