[CPEO-IRF] Alameda Landing (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City Council to take new look at Alameda Landing

By Kelly Rayburn
Inside Bay Area/Alameda Times-Star (CA)
December 5, 2006

ALAMEDA - During the heady days of the dot-com boom, Catellus 
Development Corp. laid out plans for a massive office park on the site 
of the former Fleet Industrial Supply Center, near the old Navy base in 
west Alameda. The city gave its approval.

But the boom went bust and, years later, the plans are very different.

At a meeting today, Catellus will ask the City Council to give the green 
light to an ambitious project that would convert 77 acres of unused 
land, concrete wharf and old warehouses into what Catellus says would be 
a vibrant waterfront residential area and shopping district. The project 
would include, among other things, a boat launch, an eight-acre park 
and, possibly, a water taxi to Jack London Square.

Council approval of the so-called Alameda Landing project would mark a 
major step for the conversion of Alameda's West End, once dominated by 
the now-closed U.S. Naval Air Station. But the proposal comes as 
residents and city politicians continue debating what the city should do 
about a number of large-scale development possibilities. At this point, 
not all are on board.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/ci_4781049

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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