The Concord City Council on Tuesday Jan.14 will consider a preliminary application to provide feedback on the renovation of the existing 206 multi-family units within Victory Village and redevelopment of Quinault Village by demolishing the existing 80 duplex units and constructing 508 multi-family and townhome units for a total of 714 units on the former 55-acre Coast Guard site located at 3295 Haleakala Street, off E. Olivera Rd.
The meeting will be held at 6:30 in the Council Chambers, 1950 Parkside Drive, Concord.
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Good night. Why has this taken so long?
The correct amount of silver has yet to cross the appropriate palms.
Lovelace,
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The new owners have had several meetings with the Concord City Council since they purchased the property 4-years ago. They became vacant when the Navy stopped using them, they were then transferred to the Coast Guard but never used by the military branch for housing. The GSA sold the property at auction in late 2020.
They were used for housing by the Coast Guard. I lived there 2007-2009. They remained open for a couple years after.
T-rex
you are correct I as knew people from the Coast Guard that lived there in the 1990’s
T-rex,
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Sorry, I only went by what the public has been told at some public meetings about the property and the media.
Black Knight
They were used for housing by the Coast Guard in the 1990’s as we had a contract employee who lived there and a co-workers daughter, son-in-law and grandkids lived there
Well Folks,
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Interesting, I wasn’t aware the Coast Guard was using the housing while it was also being used by the Navy. I’ve been to many public meetings about these properties for almost 20 years, my recollection is that the housing property off of East Olivera Road was transferred from the USN to the USCG, the USCG had plans to use the site for housing, but I don’t recall being told it was used to house USCG personnel, then the USCG had decided to dispose of the property, then reversed course and decided they’d reevaluate the need for the property, then again decided to dispose of the property, the GSA put the property up for auction in late 2020, and the property was purchased at auction by two Las Vegas developers. I largely remember the same events reported in local media, although I also remember the property entrances not being fenced off in the early 2010s.
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The Navy housing off of the Port Chicago Highway entrance to the tidal portion of the former CNWS/active MOTCO was torn down by the Army.
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While vacationing in 2015, I struck up a conversation with a USN veteran who had lived at the newer Victory Village housing in the 1990s, he said in the 20+ years he spent in the USN that the Victory Village housing was the best military housing he had while serving in the Navy.
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Are you enjoying retirement in Nevada and are you happy that you made the move?
How about temporarily letting some of the LA fire victims use the housing? Vacant 17 years so what’s a few more years?
rich,
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This is privately owned property.
How bout we don’t.
Rich- are you under the impression that the LA fire victims lost their homes, their friends, their families, their jobs, their connections, their church communities and everything else they live for? Only then would you think offering them to move 375 miles away to live in abandoned, hazardous, decrepit dormitories would be the answer. I think I can guess your politics with such a half-baked suggestion. SMH
Hello McFly anybody home? They cannot be renovated why the hell do you think they’re still standing and nothing’s been done to them in so long a period of time it’s called asbesto and lots of other bad things! Renovation my ass quit trying to put one over on the public..AGAIN.
Works925,
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This housing has sat empty for as long as it has because the USCG couldn’t decide if they were actually going to use this property for housing. The new owners have only owned this property for 4 years. The newer Victory Village only began being built in 1989, it shouldn’t be filled with toxic materials, unlike Quinalt Village which began being built in 1964. The previous issue with Victory Village was that it wasn’t up to current code, which was the issue for rehabilitating the units when the City of Concord wanted to purchase the property, but the current owners have planned to use “builders remedies” to rehabilitate these units as the State of California only wants new housing stock and is bending over backwards to both help developers and reduce costs for developers.
Please NO!!!! It will cost a ton to cleanup the asbestos and other hazardous materials on that property as well as add a TON of TRAFFIC to an area that has one lane each way.
City_Guy,
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The new owners will have to clean up the property, not the public. This property is owned by Las Vegas developers.
City_Guy,
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I do agree with you about the additional traffic this will cause on East Olivera Road, Hailton Avenue, Dormer Avenue, Esperanza Drive, Olivera Road, Port Chicago Highway, Willow Pass Road, Farm Bureau Road, and other roadways in the area.
Overall, it would be less expensive to rehabilitate those homes.
But look at the tax dollar$ assessed on 508 homes.
It’s all about the money and whose pocket it slips into.
Rehabitat prisoners and nothing else. Let them live in those hazardous dumps.
Abe,
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Yet, that additional property tax revenue still isn’t and won’t be enough for our government.
Between this and what’s going in at the K Mart site on Clayton Rd., Concord won’t be nearly the same and will begin down the road to look like ……. 🙁
domo,
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Nothing is currently going in at the former K-Mart location on Clayton Road. The City of Concord is only rezoning the property allowing the owners other options for the property than sitting vacant since no non-grocery brick and mortar wholesale or retail stores are currently interested in the property.
… bets are on
…. and all over national media – this in EB Times
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/10/concord-kmart-rezone-1000-affordable-housing-units/
Black Knight
Just curious if you or anyone else knows how long Lucky, Pay n Save or whatever it’s called has a strangle hold on that center? When I still lived in Concord I was in that grocery store a couple of times when I was at that end of town and compared to the Safeway on Ygnacio and the Safeway on Denkinger that “Lucky’s” wasn’t very busy, ‘the bakery was “busy” but the rest of the store wasn’t. Just wondering if the their reign of terror is close to it’s end
Well Folks,
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I imagine the contract that Lucky (Savemart division of Lucky, not Albertsons divion of Lucky) has is the life of their lease. This type of grocery store competition exclusion is often fairly standard for many shopping centers. I imagine the exclusion will continue with a new lease too. I agree, I’ve never seen this Lucky store very busy at all.
domo,
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Again, nothing is currently “going in” at the K-Mart site. It is a rezoning, which would give the owners greater flexibility by increasing the number of housing units currently zoned for the site, which hasn’t yet occurred. I just watched the last council meeting, which was cut short in the recording, as Mayor Carlyn Obringer was cut off mid-sentence. You claimed something IS “going in” at the K-Mart site, when nothing is even currently planned or approved at the site. I never said high-density housing won’t ever be built on the site, simply that nothing is currently “going in” at the site.
Oh really ? it’s all talk and no action. I’ll be dead before they break ground. This redevelopment project is on the slow track to nowhere.
Living downtown,
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The new owners of the property have only owned this property for 4 years, they’ve been moving much faster than the redevelopment of the former CNWS and the multiple redevelopment projects throughout downtown Concord.
If this happens Olivera Rd will be a mess. I need to ask why the City didn’t maintain the current housing that stands. Some of that housing was just a few years old when they closed the weapons station and they just let it rot. Even the older housing was habitable at the time the weapons station closed..
That Guy,
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The city didn’t own the property, the federal government did. When the City of Concord wanted to purchase the property the Concord City Council and the public were told the housing couldn’t be rehabilitated because it wasn’t up to code and it’d be more expensive to bring it up to code than it would be to build new housing.
Basically, sits smack dab on top of an Earthquake fault. Yeah, makes perfect sense to develop the Victory Village.
None of that garbage was habitable when it was vacated by the military. Bulldoze it all and go 10 feet down minimum
.yea no where to put all that hazardous crap so it’s best to just leave it there.
It’s about time! CNWS closed & I left in 1997 & nothing has been done w/the base or the housing surrounding it, city totally blew in negotiations w/developers🤔🫣🤔
M.Lynn,
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The reason for the delay is because the Navy transferred the housing on the inland portion of the former CNWS to the Coast Guard, while the housing on the tidal portion of the former CNWS was transferred to the Army. The City of Concord offered $15 million for the 59.41 acre property, it was sold to Las Vegas developers at auction for $58.4 million.
I vote for a combination USPSA (pistol range) with qualifiers
And a place I can buy high quality fruits and vegetables.
Wouldn’t complain if it was entirely staffed with beautiful Mex/Indian
women neither. Those cheekbones and cruel eyes!
I forgot what we were even talking about. 🤤