Alameda Point will be back on the agenda before the City of Alameda Planning Board again next Monday night.
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The City of Alameda hosts another Alameda Point “Going Forward Community Forum” tonight at 6:30 p.m. For Alameda residents not exhausted with the campaign season, or who think that the rejection of SunCal’s Measure B earlier this year, and the 2006 community-driven “Preliminary Development Concept,” didn’t provide enough information about what they want or don’t want at Alameda Point, there’s a new series community forums coming up to discuss redevelopment at Alameda Point. Be advised, the process is replete with planning buzz-phrases like “new vision concept.” By Erica Madison On July 27 during a special Alameda City Council meeting, Councilmember Matarrese said the vision for Alameda Point needed to be focused around job creation and commercial development. In a meeting that began last night and ran into the wee hours of this morning, on a 4-0 vote, Alameda City Council approved a resolution that denied SunCal’s so-called “modified optional entitlement application” plan for Alameda Point, effectively ending the City’s continued negotiations with the developer. As a result, SunCal’s exclusive negotiation agreement (ENA) with the City of Alameda expired at midnight. A hearing that could allow a creditor to seize SunCal CEO Bruce Elieff’s property, including SCC Acquisitions Inc., the parent company of SunCal Companies development projects, has been pushed to Tuesday, June 1st. [We received this letter in regards to the Save Our City! Alameda alternate development plan for Alameda Point.] Dear Editor, Interestingly, I sent a letter to the Alameda Sun a couple of days ago. In that letter I pointed out the contamination issues, that the types of development planned are obsolete and not appropriate [...] By Erica Madison At a Feb. 3, 2010, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority meeting Council member Matarrese gave a progress report on the Navy’s cleaning of Alameda Point. Continue reading ARRA Questions Clean up Work on Alameda Point During a Dec. 2, City Council meeting, issues regarding a $3 million repayment of Alameda’s sewer fund was debated. Work on removing the debris from the Fleet Industrial Supply Center’s (FISC) burned down hospital, is almost finished. In order to complete the work of demolishing the hospital and cleaning up the area, the CIC had to borrow $3 million from the sewer fund. [...] A program that aired on National Public Radio recently talked about the proliferation of book-oriented social networking sites on the Internet. Borders has announced it is up for sale, and recently Borders ran back into the arms of Amazon.com to let Amazon run Borders’ online book sales operations. And the Borders store at South [...] |
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