[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Concord [CA] to part ways with developer of Naval Weapons Station mega-project"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord to part ways with developer of Naval Weapons Station mega-project
The Bay Area’s largest planned housing development has stalled out yet again

By ETHAN VARIAN
Bay Area News Group
January 28, 2023

The Concord Naval Weapons Station project, the Bay Area’s largest planned housing development, has stalled out yet again.

At the end of a two-hour special meeting on Saturday, the Concord City Council voted to end negotiations with the project developer, in what likely spells another multi-year setback for the controversial mega-development that has been in the works for two decades.

The city has been consistent in its demand the development includes more affordable housing than the state requires.

The deal ultimately fell through over concerns about the amount and type of affordable housing, and the involvement of developer Albert Seeno III, who is currently in multiple legal battles with his father over control of the family’s building empire.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/28/concord-to-part-ways-with-developer-of-naval-weapons-station-mega-project

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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