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Correction: An eagle-eyed reader with a good memory reminded us that when SunCal brought D.E. Shaw into the project last year, they shifted interest in the project from SCC Alameda Point LLC to Cal Land Venture, LLC, of which D.E. Shaw is a partner.

Confused about the various players and actors in the Alameda Point redevelopment [...]

Sandpiper Cove HOA Special Board of Directors Meeting
Community Center
3195 Mecartney Drive, Alameda, CA 94502
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
6:30pm
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler and Brigade Commander David Tunney to discuss the recent house fire in the HOA – present the process used in fighting the fire and answer questions from residents.

Critics of SunCal’s Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative have often been pejoratively, and mistakenly, labeled “anti-development” and needlessly distrustful of the “big bad developer.” But it’s coming to light, as SunCal tries to slink away from Alameda back to SoCal, that they duped even their most ardent sympathizers within Alameda. Perhaps now some of those who [...]

Bay Farm Community Church
Summer Bible Camp
Monday, July 13 2009 – 6:00pm
to Friday, July 17 2009 – 8:30pm

Update, 6:00pm, June 27th, 2009: Response from Kate Quick, President of the Alameda League of Women Voters:
Well, there is some editorializing and a bit of opinion in Bill’s statement. But essentially, the dialogue did take place, and Lena did say that due to some changes in the conditions now in discussions with the Navy, [...]

We have been admonishing the City of Alameda for some time now to get into the East Bay Green Corridor partnership through our blog posts (and here…) and our 2007 “Greening Alameda Point” whitepaper. Er…. “greenpaper…” Finally, it seems like they have.

by Denise Lai
I almost missed the June 16 City Council meeting that became one of the most significant this year! I tuned in at home when Fire Chief Kapler was answering questions about a recent Bay Farm Island fire in which two firefighters sustained significant burns. I was taken aback at the glib and vague [...]

We encourage you to check in regularly with the California Redevelopment Agency over the next few weeks of the state budget crisis as the Sacramento lobby group of builders, developers and contractors cheer on opponents of a state legislative effort to transfer local property tax dollars designated for developer subsidies to our floundering K-12 education [...]

Update, June 26th, 11:00 am – Greg Miley informed us that: “Approximately 30 people from various areas of ADC were affected.”

We received a tip that there are layoffs in-progress at Abbott’s offices on South Loop Road on Bay Farm Island. It turns out that in fact, there are.

Reference developments that give a peek at the future for Alameda Point abound in the Bay area, once home to a large number of U.S. Navy and U.S. Army bases. Almost directly across the Bay from Alameda Point is the former Hunters Point shipyard, and an opinion piece in this week’s SF Bay Guardian speaks [...]