News
Memo from City Manager to City Council regarding the United States Navy's Transfer...
File attachments:
Added: Aug 27, 2010 at 7:31 AM
Alameda Sun: 'Moving Forward' Meets Tonight [Thursday]
Excerpt:
There was a packed house at the first in a series of community meetings, Moving Forward at Alameda Point, on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at the Alameda Naval Air Museum.
Moderator Nancy Rogers began by explaining to the group that the...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 26, 2010 at 7:35 PM
The Island: Second Alameda Point community meeting is tonight [Thursday]
Excerpt:
A group of local residents is hosting the second in a series of meetings on the future of Alameda Point from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Auctions By the Bay Theater, 2700 Saratoga Street. The meeting is free and open to the public...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 26, 2010 at 6:26 AM
Alameda Journal: Taking a look at Alameda Point
Excerpt:
On Sunday, the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society has organized two bus and walking tours in cooperation with the Naval Air Museum and Alameda Museum. The bus tours will be led by Dick Rutter, a local architect and former...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 19, 2010 at 7:31 PM
San Francisco Examiner: Treasure Island wrangle ending; development can begin
Excerpt:
The City will be taking the helm of Treasure Island now that nearly two years of back-and-forth discussions about the Bay land are settled, putting a historic redevelopment project in motion.
Treasure Island, which was built...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 17, 2010 at 2:07 PM
San Francisco Chronicle: Churches need not apply in city's vision for Treasure...
Excerpt:
San Francisco's master plan for a showplace 21st century neighborhood on Treasure Island doesn't include room for a single church, synagogue or place of worship, an omission that at least one city official finds "inexplicable."...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Alameda Sun: Suncal Sues
Excerpt:
After threatening legal action if the city decided to part ways, developer SunCal filed a complaint against Alameda for breach of contract and a violation of the Constitutional contract clause over the Alameda Point development.
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 12, 2010 at 8:06 PM
San Francisco Chronicle: Fast-track sought for Treasure Island project
Excerpt:
But there is plenty of work, financial and otherwise, that still needs to be done before construction starts.
First, building on an island is complicated. Treasure Island is a flat, low-lying man-made extension of Yerba Buena...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 12, 2010 at 7:59 AM
The Island: Highsmith: ‘The city did nothing wrong’
Excerpt:
Alameda’s city attorney is denying SunCal’s claim that the city violated a contract offering the developer exclusive rights to negotiate a deal to develop Alameda Point. The Southern California developer sued the city Wednesday in...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 9, 2010 at 7:05 AM
Orange County Business Journal: SunCal’s N.M. Land Out of Bankruptcy, in Receivership
Excerpt:
Irvine-based SunCal Cos.’ largest proposed project—a 55,000-acre housing development planned near Albuquerque, N.M.—is no longer in bankruptcy. But the master developer still has a tough battle on its hands if it wants to retain an...
Link to complete story:
Added: Aug 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM