Oakland makes the cut for second round of consideration for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expansion

Published on Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Last updated on 10:10AM, Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Oakland's City Hall, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zendritic/5574979311/

Oakland's City Hall, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zendritic/5574979311/

Oakland is one of six city finalists in cities still under consideration by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for its potential second campus site.

The lab reviewed 21 submissions responding to a request for proposals due in March.

Finalists include:

  • Alameda Point, a former Navy base, in Alameda, proposed by the city of Alameda
  • Berkeley Aquatic Park West in west Berkeley, proposed by a team led by Michael and Steve Goldin.
  • Brooklyn Basin in Oakland, proposed by the Oakland Harbor Partners, developers of the Oak to Ninth project including Signature Properties.
  • Emeryville/Berkeley, proposed by TMG Partners and Wareham Development
  • Golden Gate Fields, spanning the cities of Berkeley and Albany, proposed by MI Development.
  • Richmond Field Station, a site currently owned by the University of California in Richmond.

The lab expects to make a final decision by this November and move into the second campus in mid-2016.

 

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Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local. She is also a circuit rider for The Community Information Challenge, a program of The John S and James L Knight Foundation, and a consultant to non-profit and community organizations. Susan lives in North Oakland, near the Santa Fe school, with her partner, her housemate, a rescue dog named Cazzie, and a yard full of ants. She is an aspiring gardener, a long-time blogger & entrepreneur, and a recovering journalist who's found home in Oakland.
naomi schiff commented at Sat, 14 May at 8:41pm

walking in Oakland, by Robyn Chachula, http://www.flickr.com/photos/crochetbyfaye/5713038989/

 

This mysterious image used to illustrate the article is not Oakland California. Michigan or Pennsylvania, perhaps? I'll try to figure it out. but it is not our Oakland.

Also, please note that if Oak to Ninth is home to LBL, that may likely mean taking the land used off the property tax roll, even though the whole thing was designated as a redevelopment zone in order to harvest tax increment monies from the development, and invest them in other areas of the Central City East Redevelopment District. One might ask, what implications does this have for the promised affordable housing? How will this help the hoped-for public investment in International Blvd? Just wondering. . .

 

Thank you for covering this!

naomi schiff commented at Sat, 14 May at 8:49pm

Photo is the Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA. It is an amazing 42-story landmark.

 

To research it, I went to the URL which included "crochetbyFaye" and discovered she went to the Univ. of Pittsburgh, then went to look at landmarks in Pittsburgh. Voilà! Then found this, in the Oakland neighborhood:

4. How do You Clean a Building?

One very notable sight flying into Pittsburgh from the East is a tall gothic skyscraper just east of Pittsburgh in the suburbs of Oakland – the Cathedral of Learning. This 42 story limestone landmark of the Univeristy of Pittsburgh until just a few years ago, was a dark sooty black, tarnished by decades of Pittsburgh’s steel mills and industrial plants spewing smoke into the sky. A $4.8M initiative to clean the building happened in 2007 and this lady now stands proud and clean, inviting a new crop of students into her halls of knowledge.

 

All the best!