The Concord City Council on Tuesday will discuss disbanding a Community Advisory Committee for the Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Project, since the project is on hold as the city seeks a new master developer.
According to a city report, the Community Advisory Committee was formed in 2016 to provide input into plans to remake the former Concord Naval Weapons Station into a new 2,300-acre community with 13,000 housing units, a regional park and millions of square feet of commercial space.
The original reuse project master developer Lennar Concord LLC’s exclusive negotiating agreement expired in March, after the City Council voted not to give Lennar more time to negotiate with the area’s labor unions. Because of that, the whole project could now be delayed for years as the city starts over again in its search for a master developer.
Accordingly, a city report says, “there is no clear timeline as to when a draft Specific Plan will be available for public review. The whole community participation process isn’t expected to resume until after a new reuse project master developer is selected.
The Concord City Council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; it’s a virtual meeting, and can be viewed via the city’s website.
Not unexpected.
Good
Here is a thought
How about instead of the council
with no apparent qualifications to interview
Or make a professional qualified decision
Or even make a honest assessment of a qualified general contractor
Maybe someone with real knowledge and not being paid off by builders or politicians can step up and handle this
It is quite obvious that not one person associated or on the council can keep their hands out of the deal without getting dirty
Nothing will get done and soon the habitat and wildlife report will expire
And will need to be done again over 10 years of wait
By then it will be a weapon station again the way we are headed
Stupid is stupid does
Says forest gump
Make it a redwood park. We don’t need more housing and traffic.
Amen to this.
We know it will never happen they just want the increased tax dollars it will bring in so they can line their pockets.
Let this whole project go.This is not the time to waste the tax payers money on something that will never happen.Concord can’t take care of the problems it has now.
A project like this is over the council’s head. What do they know about building a 2,300 acre site. Maybe create the vision with someone. Then break down the development into smaller chunks and sell them over time.
Nailed it!
The government owns this property and will sell it and get the money. Concord will have nothing to say about it.
Like they were ever interested in the citizens’ input……
That’s right, this is still government land. Maybe now this is where Joe Biden and camel Harris will put their large section 8 projects to move poor people in the suburbs.
Won’t that be wonderful!
I think it would be perfect for section 8 housing! I mean after all it was a perfect location for navy housing! And then just think with all their Cadillacs they would be so close to freeways!
Build a nice drag strip so our streets are not covered In rubber marks. Or maybe do once every couple months at the airport
I think I just came up with a plan to kick this project into warp drive! Since the property borders on both Concord and Pittsburg, a certain large local developer could have the City of Pittsburg go after the property. Concord would freak out! Visions of ridge line development, high rise office buildings and a brand new two lane road!!
Just kidding! That couldn’t happen, could it?
Seeno is way ahead of you, he bought all of the ridgetops of our golden hills quite some time ago.
You are totally correct. In Concord the only people the Council City Council and City Manager Valerie Barone listens to are the Concord POA union leaders, the overpaid bigwigs running the PD, and the Garventa’s – who own Concord Disposal. Everybody else get ignored.
With the passage of this recent sales tax hike City Manager Valerie Barone now has 27 million more of our tax dollars to pay off Concord POA members, and the police brass, all of who are being paid fantastic salaries to police a city that has very little serious crime ( Concord PD officers, who spend most of their time investigating car break-ins, giving out speeding tickets, and going over to the mall to take shoplifting reports, are being paid like they are patrolling South Central LA).
That’s how Barone hangs on to her job as City Manager. As long as she continues to steer huge amounts of money to the bigwigs over at the PD they will let her continue to be Concord City Manager. The PD brass loves having Barone as the city manager, she so easy to roll when Concord does its city budget, it’s like taking candy from a baby.
Here’s a thought– why not have MANY developers? Why does it have to be done by a single developer? Isn’t that a HUGE site? Split up the land, bid it out, and let each developer handle a portion. Build it out over years.
The drawback to utilizing the area is that it’s going to put a strain on the highway. We already have too many people crossing over Kirker Pass bypassing the highway in Pittsburg and Antioch. So that’s going to be an issue, but even still, that’s a huge portion of land in Concord that could be something some day.
The Concord City Council couldn’t figure out how to boil water. Give the entire area to the critters and bring back the Elk.
Agree!
Yes, you are totally correct. Concord City Council city council members can’t figure out how to do anything.
All you have to do to figure that out is compare Concord with Pleasant Hill.PH built a new city hall, they have opened a new teen center – these things were done years ago – and they have got a new beautiful library on the the way. The new state of the art is sighted and funded. Concord has none of these things in the works.
Concord? All we get in Concord is lectures from council members on how broke the city is, lots of yip yapping about big plans they have for the future – which never materialize (see Navy base project, failed effort to get a state college or failed effort to lure Amazon to Concord, failed downtown soccer stadium).
We get stuff like that – ridiculous Rube Goldberg like pipe dreams sold to residents (see that laughable soccer stadium). How much staff time – our tax dollars – were wasted on all these ridiculous pie in the sky projects? Millions of dollars I would guess.
Meanwhile the wages of city employees in Concord – employees who can’t figure out how to do anything – soar into the stratosphere to the point there is no money left for anything, including street repairs, or for even for emergencies – like the Covid 19 health crises.( Concord has the highest city worker pay packages in the region, 30,000 more per employee than WC!)
Concord is a failing city, it’s failing in almost every major measurable category. Sadly, voters in our city – due to apathy -continue to elect worthless gas bags like Carlyn Obringer and Laura Hoffmeister to the council, council members that sit back and watch these city employees unions and these city managers plunder the city treasury, year after year.
Pause it for the rest of eternity. Good riddance.
Concord truly is a City of idiots. You were gifted a fantastic opportunity to put your city on the map and do something spectacular with this amazing site and you screwed it up. The Navy will sell this site to the Seenos and you’ll get NOTHING, no sports stadium, no schools, no college, just more ugly McMansions and traffic.
Idiots!
I know a lot of people are delighted that the project is on hold, but the land is worth too much money for the US Government to allow it to go undeveloped. They will sell it to someone for a lot of money.
I hear Trump wants to buy it and make it a MAGA golf course.
The “Government” doesn’t own the land. They Manage it. We the people own it.
Since developers are so hungry for the land, can’t they expand their ideas past “more houses”? How about “less traffic.”