The Concord City Council on Saturday unanimously selected Brookfield Properties as master developer for the former Concord Naval Weapons Station project.
Development of the site has been the city’s biggest issue since the Navy abandoned it in 1999. The city wants to develop the available 2,300 acres into 13,000 units of housing and millions of square feet of commercial space.
About half of the total site will become a new park in the East Bay Regional Park District named Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50.
Brookfield Properties was interviewed in a special meeting Saturday morning, where the company laid out its plan to develop the acreage in the Base Reuse Project.
Originally, the Council was going to interview two companies – Brookfield and Housing America Partners, but Housing America withdrew its application in the middle of this month.
The city is requiring the developer to have an executed project labor agreement with Contra Costa County’s Construction and Building Trades Council and be willing to make it available to the public.
This was the third time the council tried to hire a master developer for the 5,046-acre site.
The city’s deal with Lennar FivePoint collapsed in March 2020 when Lennar couldn’t reach agreements with local labor unions, which was one of the city’s conditions.
The city’s agreement with Seeno-owned Concord First Partners was scuttled this January when the City Council rejected CFP’s term sheet after community members widely criticized CFP’s requests to amend the agreement, giving them early property rights and reimbursement of costs should the deal fall through.
According to the city, the next steps for the project include outlining the terms of an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA), drafting a specific plan, and a term sheet, which is a document that established procedures and standards for the negotiation of the development agreement.
When I saw this headline, I thought to myself: wait aminute… didn’t rhey already do this? Didn’t they already do this a couple of times before?
And p.s.: This beautiful huge new park better not become the haven of all the homeless!
Why not let the homeless dregs squat there?
The park is called “Home of the Port Chicago 50” who were mutineers in time of war.
They were too chicken to load ships with ammo for the men who were fighting and losing their lives in the Pacific.
A fitting park for those who refuse to work.
DR. JELLYFINGER,
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Congressman Mark DeSaulnier has been and is working extremely hard to get these individuals posthumous pardons.
That does not surprise me at all.
Mark never does anything I approve of.
Pardon the mutineers…. I wonder what was riskier, fighting all the way up to the top of Mt. Suribachi or loading a ship with explosives?
320 died at Port Chicago.
6,140 Marines died on Iwo Jima …. and the survivors didn’t go on strike afterwards.
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Based on policies of the liberal SF Bay Area, the future park will be a liberal paradise:
Tent cities; dilapidated RVs, feces in the streets, sidewalks, and paths; the aroma of urine permeating the air; plenty of graffiti; trash strewn and blowing about like urban tumbleweeds; and, the bums/feral/unhoused/homeless people sleeping or lingering about in a drug-filled stupor.
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Keep voting for Democrats if you want to perpetuate this paradise!!
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Or make the common sense decision to support conservative and moderate Republicans who believe in law, order, civility, and equal opportunity.
Didn’t like their hand slapped by the grand jury so they had to move fast….just like a kid that knows they are in trouble and cleans the house before parents get home. “look how good we are!”
ANGRY AMERICAN,
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The Concord City Council, Concord City Manager Valerie Barone, Concord City Attorney Susanne Brown, and Concord Economic Development & Base Reuse Director Guy Bjerke did what they had to do, they acknowledged and answered the Civil Grand Jury Report, and then blew it off. The process of finding a new Master Developer for the former CNWS started before the Civil Grand Jury Report was released.
Oh yes, the labor unions. The same ones that pays a Holewatch to stand there and watch guys work in a hole $40 an hour. The same ones that pay a pipefitters superintendent over $100 an hour straight time.
Is it any wonder why things cost so much?
Oh please, things cost so much because of cooperate greed. CEO making tens of millions of dollars but you think $78,000 a year is too much for the people doing the work..that is barely enough to rent an apartment in Concord.
Corporations are greedy in other countries too, but somehow it costs, for example, a fraction of the cost per mile to lay a subway in Spain or Germany compared to the US. Our institutions are all sclerotic and captures by the interests of their insiders. The public gets left holding the bag. Schools that shut down, harming kids in the service of their employees’ fears and convenience; CalFire refusing to fly at night and refusing to use cheaper, more efficient aircraft at a fraction of the operating cost; public sector pension funds running the state’s politics … it’s all the same tune. Our public institutions don’t actually serve the public so much as preserve a rentier class that votes for its own continued bloat.
If you want it to get done go union . 🤷♂️
I work in an all Union environment. The only thing the union does is enable lazy, and in after workers to keep from becoming fired. It is an antiquated and outdated concept. There is no way on earth that anyone should be paid $35-$40 an hour to be a firewatch. Plus time and a half on Saturday and double time on Sunday even if you don’t even show up to work any other day of the week. It is an absolute scam.
I agree with you American Citizen !
I guess it’s safe to say you aren’t the guy they picked for fire watch then?
@Bay Point Buccaneer
…….or ask a woman.
So…
How long will it take for this deal to fall through?
How much is this going to cost the taxpayers?
We are the only ones losing on this entire fiasco.
The inept City Council is incapable of managing the streets of Concord. b
This is way above their combined knowledge base.
Every developer around knows that this is a failed project.
That’s why no one puts forward a proposal or bails before going too far.
We’ll see another tax increase to fill the City coffers soon.
This boondoggle will cost the city another few million of our tax dollars.
And construction will begin no later than 2045.
So how am I supposed to believe this will work out? Same old story different people. This plot of land will stay the same till im an old man. Im tired of reading how someone will swoop in and do something with it.
Concord Donut is it different people? We better make darn sure who all the players are at Brookfield!
This means absolutely nothing
Brookfield Properties Is a name only. It’s owned by various companies of which I only looked up only one so far. The largest owner of Brookfield Properties is The Bank of Montreal which is owned by the Chinese. They own over 40% and the other nine companies own smaller parts of what is left. Welcome to the new world. I wonder if the city council knows what they are doing. If you look up Brookfield Properties it will tell you it is an American Company. The same as the company that is buying up land around our local Air Force Base. It’s an American Company they say.
The US has been a solely owned subsidiary of China for quite some time. Remember when China wanted to cash in some US bonds right before the pandemic and the US defaulted. But that’s just capitalism. 😄
Article today about the land around the Air Force Base, group of rick guys buying up the land on the cheap, even overpaying to get it, but they still think it’s cheap. They want to build a new city out there. Be fun to watch the race between the private people and the Concord(government). My money is on the private group to have something built first.
WC—CREEKER,
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Those that are purchasing land around Travis Air Force Base are still going to have to work with Solano County, a government entity, in order to build on the property. You make it sound like they’re just going to be able to build anything they want to, without dealing with any public and government entities, just because they own the land. The inland portion of the former CNWS isn’t even ready to build on yet, as it’s still going through the clean-up process and isn’t even ready to be turned over to the City of Concord, yet.
They want to make 13,000 units of housing and millions of square feet of commercial space. At the present time there are 44,000 thousand housing units in Concord. So roughly they want to make Concord one third larger. What could go wrong? But, they are going to build a park.
No problem at all if population reduction works according to the NWO. Might as well be a big park.
RICARDOH,
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Which park are you talking about, the EBRPD park, the tournament park, the great park, the linear park, the Willow Pass Park expansion, or the numerous small parks that are planned?
The Thurman Marshall park.
Maybe THURGOOD
No. Just no.
Wow. I guess my grandkids will live to see this happen. And I’m only 35
I just don’t understand why it needs to be developed. Why not leave it like it is. We are always short on water according to Contra Costa Water District. And when we were having brown outs PG&E said we didn’t have enough electricity. Caltrains says we have to many cars on the road. The Air Resource Board says we have too much pollution in the air. Is it all lies?
JUST SAYING,
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From the very first meeting in 2006, the vast majority of Concord citizens wanted the inland portion of the former CNWS to be declared open space. We were told NO. It’s federal property, so lobby Congressman Mark DeSaulnier to get the land declared open space or some other designation that would leave the property as-is.
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The Contra Costa Water District has told the City of Concord for more than 15 years that they have more than enough water, well into the future, to supply the necessary water for this project. Development of the property will also include a greywater and/or a purple water system.
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All housing units and commercial property will be required to have solar installed by the builders.
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The Concord City Council has said they’re building a project, THE CITY OF NEW CONCORD, that will have everything these new NEW CONCORD residents will need and they won’t need to travel outside the borders of the inland portion of the former CNWS, so any traffic will be self contained. They’ve also said the new NEW CONCORD residents won’t own cars and will only travel by walking, biking, busing, and BARTing. Former Concord City Councilman Tim McGallian repeatedly said “We know traffic and parking will be a problem and you’re just going to have to deal with it.” Current Concord Vice Mayor Edi Birsan has said we don’t need to worry about traffic or parking problems because self-driving cars and smart traffic lights will solve those problems. Concord Mayor Laura Hoffmeister has said we don’t need to worry about traffic and parking problems because we won’t be traveling by car, we will be traveling by drones that will fly us to where we need to go.
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The Concord City Council believes all of the new NEW CONCORD residents will only be traveling within the borders of the inland portion of the former CNWS by walking, biking, busing, and BARTing, and perhaps by electric cars on the rare occasions when new NEW CONCORD residents will need to travel outside the borders of New Concord, and they view those modes of transportation as zero emission, so there’s no need to worry about additional pollution being caused by this project.
The Black Knight,
Thank You for that explanation. This is not directed at you but I Don’t buy it for 1 minute. If that is their true explanation not only do I think they are liars, they are stupid to!
JUST SAYING,
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I agree with you.
Reopen it … were are at war … vs Big Pharma & Big Tech … bring back the nukes for Slimicone Valley, Pfizer HQ … Willy G … and last but not least the Fuaci compound … #fightfirewithfire … either that or just quit buying their BS … #problemsolved #1776 #disobey #takeitback #boycottthecorptacracy #growyourown #livefreediehard
Wait till they start kicking up all the contaminated dust. Time to get a few of these “RADTriage50 Personal Radiation Dosimeter”.
Can you say $$$$$$$$$$$$.The gifts and free lunches will be flowing.
Here we go again
I bet everyone who uses Highway 4 can’t wait for the traffic increase.
The entire parcel should be transformed into a park. With sufficient delay that may be the de facto outcome. Failing that, perhaps Tech Bros Inc., the VC gangsters buying up Solano County, could throw a little chump change this direction.
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“You can choose any color so long as it’s black.”
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– Henry Ford
So there going to put housing in an area where it already takes more then 30 to 45 minutes to the other side of town during rush hour which is about 3 hours duration morning and evening , schools, police and fire need to be added, just turn it into a county park where everyone can spend time and enjoy it.
Give them all a bag of dope and a knife. They will take care of themselves.
JURYISOUT,
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In 2018, media reported there was a federal government plan to use the inland portion of the former CNWS as a detention center for 50,000 illegal aliens. The residents of Concord, Concord City Council, and other city, county, state, and national elected officials vehemently opposed the proposal until these plans were shelved. If the illegal alien detention center was opposed, then the homeless detention center will also be opposed.
Fingers crossed. Because this is a mistake.