The Concord City Council on Tuesday night told city staff to release a formal request for qualifications (RFQ) from developers seeking to develop the former Concord Naval Weapons Station.
The council asked for a few revisions to the proposed request.
The RFQ must require an executed project labor agreement with Contra Costa County’s Construction and Building Trades union and be willing to make it available to the public when submitted in July.
They also added a question about a developer’s familiarity with the process of cleaning up contamination. The council also asked respondents to provide comments regarding terms and community benefits on the previous draft term sheet the city gave the last proposed master developer Concord First Partners (CFP).
The council voted 3-2 in January to reject that term sheet with Seeno Homes-owned CFP to tackle one of the largest redevelopment projects in Bay Area history.
The city rejected the Seeno deal after being widely criticized by the community. Among the points of contention were CFP’s requests to amend the agreement to give them early property rights and reimbursement of costs should the deal fall through.
It was the city’s second failed attempt to come to a final agreement with a chosen master developer. The city’s deal with Lennar Five Point collapsed in March 2020 when Lennar couldn’t reach agreements with local labor unions, which was one of the city’s conditions.
Development of the 5,046-acre site on the city’s northeast side has been the city’s biggest issue since the Navy abandoned it in 1999.
The East Bay Regional Park District is developing 2,540 of those acres into Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50, commemorating the nearby Port Chicago tragedy during World War II.
The city wants to develop the other 2,300 acres into 13,000 units of housing and millions of square feet of commercial space.
Forget it City Council, you’re obviously not qualified for this endeavor. Make it a park, a huge park and bring the elk back!
The City Council keeps doing the same things over and over again expecting different results.
The other 2300 acres after EBRPD gets theirs equates to 100 million square feet
Putting up 13,000 homes in 2300 acres equates to less then 1/5 of an acre lot(that’s pretty dense)
It’s even worse if the millions of square feet(like they said) for commercial space comes out of the 2300 acres. Not to mention streets, open space, etc
I don’t think these people could plan an afternoon nap
Unless my math is wrong, something doesn’t add up
You don’t honestly think 13,000 units of housing means 13,000 single family residences, do you? These will stacks upon stacks of condos. More property tax per acre.
Plan Bay Area 2050 in action.
CHRIS,
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I believe they want 8 single family homes per acre. There will also be thousands of low-rise and high-rise apartments on the property.
Why is there a hurry. Is there money involved? This looks more like a county thing than city.
By the time these people in charge get their act together and this plan gets built, enough people will have moved out of California. It’s like BART wanting to build another trans buy tube…Why??? Ridership is down 50%!! Why do we keep electing IDIOTS and try to work with CROOKS LIKE SEENO??? I’m glad we had a partial housecleaning of this city council, too much cronyism.
Too many people complain but don’t actually take the time to vote.
15 minute cities heading your way…you will own nothing and be happy.
Can we get a baseball stadium site offered to the A’s asap please – no development rights to Fisher though
Too late. They’re gone. Already have a land deal in Vegas.
How pathetic!
The invasion of Europe was planned for and successfully accomplished in less time than those clowns have been talking about maybe doing something.
Let it Be… as the Beatles say.
The council is still looking for more pocket lining.Just leave the land alone.The city can’t even take care of the roads and infrastructure now.Power trip!
What’s the plan for all that traffic?
PAT,
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Current and past Concord City Councilmembers have given us four different answers when it comes to future traffic and parking problems caused by the development of the former CNWS property, former USCG/USN housing property (current Haddad-Maloof housing property), North Concord/Martinez BART station parking lot, downtown Concord BART station parking lots, ABAG/MTC downtown Concord apartment-style housing projects to house 22,000 additional residents, and infill-housing in the oldest parts of Concord that have the largest lots.
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Most have said they know traffic and parking will be a problem and you’re just going to have to deal with it!
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Many have said we won’t have to worry about traffic and parking problems because the citizens and residents that will be living on the former CNWS property, also known as the “City of New Concord,” won’t be owning, driving, or traveling by car, because everything they will need in life will be located on the property, so they will only be traveling by walking, biking, busing, and BARTing.
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Concord Vice Mayor Edi Birsan is fond of saying self-driving cars and smart traffic signals are the answers for any traffic and parking problems.
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Concord Mayor Laura Hoffmeister is fond of saying we won’t have traffic and parking problems, because we’ll be traveling by drones flying us from place to place.
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Which do you believe to be most accurate and do you find that answer to be acceptable?
You all don’t get it. These frauds were not elected by voters. They were bought and paid for by George Soros who donated $400,000 to the C.C.County elections. Much of it to obtain the demon possessed Diana Becton.
Now Edi will have a new developer to support his political aspirations.