[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Alameda Naval Air Station, CA

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials react to proposal for a futuristic AI ‘tech city’ on Alameda PointRedevelopment chief at former Navy base 'stunned' by statement urging Trump emergency declaration to enable plan

By PAUL KILDUFF
San Jose Mercury News, CA
July 17, 2025 

Like most Alameda city officials, Abby Thorne-Lyman, the city’s point person for developing Alameda Point, the former Naval Air Station Alameda on the island city’s West End, was caught completely off-guard by a recent Silicon Valley group’s announcement that it plans for part of the area to become a utopian artificial intelligence “tech city.”

“I am pretty stunned,” said Thorne-Lyman, who heads the city of Alameda’s Base Reuse and Economic Development Department, which manages Alameda Point’s redevelopment. “I guess it was a little hard to believe as a concept because we understand all of the constraints and the visions for that space as being a designated wildlife area. I don’t know what more to say. I mean it’s sort of out-of-the-blue.”

In a statement complete with a promotional video released on their website in June, the group known as Frontier Valley called for President Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency so the development could be built on 512 acres at Alameda Point.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/15/officials-react-to-proposal-for-a-futuristic-ai-tech-city-on-alameda-point


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Lenny Siegel
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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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