[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Concord [CA] starting fresh — again — in search for Naval Weapons Station master developer"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord starting fresh — again — in search for Naval Weapons Station master developer
City Council held a study session following its decision to cut ties with its former master developer

By RACHEL HEIMANN MERCADER 
Bay Area News Group
March 17, 2023 

CONCORD — The largest development project in the Bay Area needs a new master developer — again.

Concord City Council members this week discussed next steps in finding a new team to develop the Naval Weapons Station, a massive project 20 years in the making and which is expected to take four decades to complete.

The new suitor will be Concord’s third in less than three years. In late January, the council voted 3-2 to cut ties with Concord First Partners following revelations of internal strife and legal battles within the Seeno family, troubles first reported by this news organization.

Council members said they had lost faith and trust in the Seenos, a powerful family who operate an East Bay building empire. The family’s Discovery Builders Inc. led the Concord First Partners consortium, along with Lewis Management and Oakland developer Phil Tagami’s California Capital & Investment Group.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/16/concord-starting-fresh-again-in-search-for-naval-weapons-station-master-developer

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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