On Point: The Letter
Hey folks, I just wanted to check in to let you know I’ve secured a copy of the letter the city got with SunCal’s alternate development plan last week. (The city’s not releasing the rest of it right now; long story.) Anyway, I’ve scarcely had the time to formulate a thought on this but given [...]
On Point: The prisoner
The City Council and School Board got what was, for the council at least, a brief summary of the 288 pages of Measure B and a pair of city staff-generated analyses of the measure Tuesday night. I meant to write you a story about it to read Wednesday, I really did. But after nearly five [...]
On Point: Unions, Jack!
The already crowded field of Measure B opponents has got another player: The unions.
The Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Alameda Building and Construction Trades Council have banded together to form No on B – Bad for Alameda, newly released campaign disclosure reports show. And so far, four local unions – carpenters, painters, sheet metal workers [...]
On Point: And that’s the word
The drama that surrounds Measure B, the February 2 ballot measure that could decide the fate of Alameda Point, is the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season, with Santa leaving the first pair of cranky pants under the tree of a Mr. Barry Fadem.
Fadem is one of the attorneys who helped draft the [...]
On Point: SunCal and the schools
By Rin Kelly
Over here at The Island, we’ve focused a lot of attention on the polite-but-pointed war of words between developer SunCal and Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant over SunCal’s ballot initiative for development of Alameda Point. But while all that was going on, another battle was brewing between SunCal and the school district [...]
On Point: War of the words
Into the great, screaming yawp that is my overstuffed news hole this week (Or maybe that’s just me screaming?) comes a letter to SunCal from Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant, essentially rebutting SunCal’s rebuttal to a city report that lays out the potential impacts of the developer’s ballot initiative for Alameda Point (that’d be [...]
On Point: Bullet points
Lots of little bits of developments on the Point this week. Let’s get started, eh?
VA transfer: I promised a few weeks ago that I’d track down that Environmental Summary Document for the 549-acre chunk of the Point the Department of Veterans Affairs wants for outpatient clinics and an above-ground cemetery, and finally, I’m delivering. (Or [...]
On Point: Turning a page
Now that developer SunCal has turned in the signatures for their Alameda Point redevelopment initiative, I thought it was high time I followed the suggestion of some of my readers to post an Alameda Point page.
The page has got links to all the Point-related pages I know about (feel free to submit more if you’ve [...]
On Point: A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Folks, it has been a crazy couple of weeks on the Alameda Point front. SunCal submitted their ballot signatures, our local Chamber of Commerce submitted their opinion on SunCal’s initiative. An advisory committee made up of of local folks who favor SunCal’s plan was born, and a slew of folks who hate the plan wasted [...]
UPDATED On Point: Unsigned
Updated 12:38 p.m. Thursday, September 10
A local group that opposes developer SunCal’s redevelopment plan for Alameda Point has convinced more than 500 people to take their names off ballot initiative petitions the developer circulated this past spring.
The folks from Protect the Point, which opposes the plan, say they have gotten 520 people to take their [...]
UPDATED On Point: The case of the disappearing park
Updated 1:21 p.m. Friday, July 31
When Richard Bangert first realized that the park he had worked to keep in the development plan for Alameda Point had been taken off the map, his wife told him it must be a typo.
Back in 2002, when plans for a golf course and hotel had threatened what was called [...]
