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Alameda Sun: City Plans 'Community Conversations' on Point, February 2, 2012

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Following the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (LBNLLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) rejection, city staff is wasting no time in moving forward with Alameda Point planning. At a special joint meeting of the city council and Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRAAlameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority. The City Council acts in this capacity.) on Tuesday, Feb. 7, staff will present a zoning ordinance and general plan amendment aimed at clearly establishing the guidelines for future development.

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City Plans 'Community Conversations' on Point
Submitted by west on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 05:50

Huffington Post: Return to the Island of Alameda, February 2, 2012

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Return to the Island of Alameda
Submitted by west on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 05:37

Alameda Sun: Barge Pulled out of Lagoon, January 26, 2012

A crane's shovel bites into the remains of an abandoned barge in the northwest corner of Seaplane Lagoon on Alameda Point. "Workers chopped out an old barge that was abandoned in place up against the northwest seawall," said Richard Bangert. According to Bangert, who hosts the blog "Alameda Point Environmental Report," the Navy's plans to finish dredging by the end of March before the least terns come back. Learn more at www.AlamedaPointInfo.com

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Barge Pulled out of Lagoon
Submitted by west on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 20:26

Alameda Sun: LBNL Skips Alameda, January 26, 2012

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Take the "1st Choice, 2nd Lab" lawn signs down.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNLLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) announced on Monday that Alameda Point will not be site of its second campus. That plum fell to the Richmond Field Station.

"The University of Californiaowned (Richmond) site presents the best opportunity to solve the lab's pressing space problems while allowing for long term growth and maintaining the 80-year tradition of close cooperation with the UC Berkeley campus," UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau stated in a press release.

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LBNL Skips Alameda
Submitted by west on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 20:24

Alameda Journal: Richmond chosen as site for Berkeley lab's second campus, January 27, 2012

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A lab that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners, revealed the existence of dark energy and explained photosynthesis has chosen a new home.

The city of Richmond walked away Monday with perhaps the most highly sought economic development project to come to the Bay Area in a decade -- the second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Richmond chosen as site for Berkeley lab's second campus
Submitted by west on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 16:30

Technology Review: U.S. Tests Whether Consumers Like Car-to-Car Communications, January 24, 2012

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Traffic is moving fast and freely. You glance down at your phone—just for a second—and then a warning tone alerts you to slam on the brakes. When you look up, you see the rear of the car you nearly plowed into.

That's the best-case scenario for new vehicle communication technologies that the U.S. Department of Transportation and eight automakers tested in Alameda, California, last week during the last six clinics designed to discover how ordinary drivers from across the United States react to cars that can talk to each other via Wi-Fi and warn drivers of impending collisions.

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U.S. Tests Whether Consumers Like Car-to-Car Communications
Submitted by west on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 05:39

San Francisco Chronicle: UC picks Richmond for lab biosciences campus, January 23, 2012

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The University of California said today it has chosen a site in Richmond for a new biosciences campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Richmond Field Station, which UC already owns, "presents the best opportunity to solve the lab's pressing space problems, while allowing for long-term growth and maintaining the 80-year tradition of close cooperation with the UC Berkeley campus," lab officials said.

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UC picks Richmond for lab biosciences campus
Submitted by west on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 10:58

Alameda Journal: Ploughshares Nursery, of Alameda, to build new ecocenter, January 20, 2012

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For Ploughshares Nursery, the medium truly is the message. The huge, weeded mound that stands between the nursery and Alameda Point Collaborative's urban farm on the former Navy base will soon be leveled to make way for a new, sustainable education and retail center, and the dirt that otherwise would be hauled away will instead fill earth bags that will be used to construct the building.

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Ploughshares Nursery, of Alameda, to build new ecocenter
Submitted by west on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 19:16

KALW: Rethinking poverty in Alameda Point, January 18, 2012

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Driving to Alameda Point in the East Bay may leave a first timer a little lost. It’s out towards the waterfront, past the Victorian neighborhoods of downtown Alameda. Close to the point, the land becomes vast, open, and quiet. There are WWII-era ships across the Bay, which let visitors know that this place was once something different. It used to be the Alameda Air Station until it was closed down in the mid 90s. That was when the government re-purposed the housing and designated Alameda Point for the displaced and homeless.

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Rethinking poverty in Alameda Point
Submitted by west on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 18:00

KQED: Six Bay Area Cities Play the Waiting Game, January 13, 2012

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This month may be the moment of truth for six Bay Area communities. Each one is vying to be the new home of a high-profile national research center. But when it comes to development in the Bay Area, there are no easy answers.

Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, Emeryville, Albany, and Richmond are the six cities in the running for what you might call the 2012 Cadillac of Bay Area Development Projects: A new, second campus for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Six Bay Area Cities Play the Waiting Game
Submitted by west on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:54