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A local group that opposes developer SunCal’s redevelopment plan for Alameda Point has convinced more than 500 people to take their names off ballot initiative petitions the developer circulated this past spring.
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The Island: On Point: Unsigned
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Added: Sep 10, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Silver City Sun-News: We need to end giveaways in New Mexico budget
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When a deal is complicated, I get to the heart of the matter by setting aside the details, and focusing on what each party puts in, and what each party receives when everything washes out. Using the company's own numbers, here is...
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Added: Sep 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM
The Island: On Point: About that park …
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Thursday night, the Navy showed members of the Restoration Advisory Board - the citizen group overseeing their cleanup efforts - what they hope will be their final plan for cleaning up the piece of the Point where the park was to...
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Added: Sep 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM
The Island: On Point: The silent treatment [Base Leases]
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Should SunCal’s plan to develop Alameda Point make it on to the ballot, there’s one group of people who may not join the large, dissonant chorus of voices who have put their two (and 10) cents into the mix: Leaseholders out at the...
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Added: Aug 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Alameda Journal: Park plan absent from Alameda Point project
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"We were stunned to see that SunCal had crossed out the park that we had worked so hard to preserve," Bangert recalled.
The development plan for the 215-acre Northwest Territories was being managed by the city until 2006, when...
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Added: Aug 28, 2009 at 6:04 AM
San Francisco Chronicle: Former Navy base focus of development fight
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Development battles are as much a part of Alameda as poplar trees, kids on bikes and restored Victorians.
First there was the fight over bay fill in the 1950s that led to South Shore Shopping Center. Then, in 1973, came Measure...
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Added: Aug 24, 2009 at 5:33 AM
The Valley Chronicle: Who’s minding McSweeny Farms?
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Residents of the bankrupt McSweeny Farms development in southeast Hemet say the neighborhood in which they are living is a far cry from the one they were promised when they moved in over the last several years.
Facilities such...
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Added: Aug 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Press Release: U.S. Navy selects AMEC for $20 million Alameda Point remediation
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Plymouth Meeting, Pa. USA (August 19, 2008) AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a $20 million remedial design and action task order for a site at Alameda Point, Calif. by the Naval...
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Added: Aug 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Sacramento Bee: In low-key Alameda, a big fight brews over growth
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Not only will SunCal ask Alamedans to modify Measure A, they will also ask voters to bless or reject the entire deal with the city within the so-called Alameda Point Revitalization initiative, a document that is 283 pages long...
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Added: Aug 16, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Capistrano Dispatch: A Tax Bill for Pacifica San Juan
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Beleaguered residents of the Pacifica San Juan project off Valle Road will continue paying a Mello-Roos tax that generates $443,000 a year, mostly for the Capistrano Unified School District, even though the project only sends 10...
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Added: Aug 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM