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Reid, McElhaney Call for Army Base Hearing

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13 years ago

March 14, 2013

Oakland Post

Larry Reid

By Jesse Douglas
Allen-Taylor

Phil Tagami

Oakland City Councilmember Larry Reid blasted Oakland developer Phil Tagami’s and Oakland city staff’s handling of the removal of small business tenants from the old Oakland Army Base this week, telling members of the Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee that Oakland was operating a “double standard” between the small businesses and Tagami’s California Capital & Investment Group (CC&IG) and his Army Base development partner Prologis, with the developers getting preferential treatment while small businesses were “getting screwed, big time.”
“There are other folks who could have done this project other than CC&IG,” Reid said. “That’s why the Port [of Oakland] is having their issues with CC&IG and why they allowed their [Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with CC&IG] to terminate and why they’re going out into the market to look for someone else. We could have done the same thing.”
“It’s almost like the city doesn’t care about you, so long as you pay the rent,” Reid told Army Base business representatives at the CEDA meeting. “If I’d known about this all along, my vote would never have been there to do an agreement with [CC&IG] or with any Master Developer who mistreats these small businesses in the city of Oakland. If I were a small business, I wouldn’t think about coming to Oakland.”
Reid called upon the Oakland City Auditor to “look into the process of the development of the Oakland Army Base,” and agreed with fellow Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney’s request for a full hearing before CEDA on “the economics of the Army Base deal.”
Oakland has an agreement with Oakland-based CC&IG and international industrial developer Prologis to develop 120 acres of the old Army Base property for Port of Oakland-related business support and activities as well as a long-term lease for the two companies to manage the property once it is developed.
The Port of Oakland dropped its exclusive negotiating agreement with Tagami’s company two years ago to develop the 168-acre port portion of the old Army Base property.
In response to Reid’s comments, Tagami told the Oakland Post by email, “I have reached out directly to Councilman Reid to address his statements. I do not believe that it is appropriate to debate Mr. Reid in the Oakland Post or any newspaper on an issue of such vital importance to the City of Oakland.”
As for Gibson McElhaney’s call for a full hearing on the Army Base deal, Tagami wrote that the Councilmember “specifically asked for information related to a Keyser-Marston Associates report that was commissioned by the City of Oakland. Ms. Gibson McElhaney and all councilmembers should feel free to review that document and any of the documents that were available prior to the Army Base development approvals and are available today.”
Council’s CEDA Committee has been monitoring the removal of existing businesses from the old Army Base property to make way for the development, with several of the business representatives complaining that even though their work is critical to the Port of Oakland, they have been running into difficulties moving into adjacent port property so that they can continue their operations.
Some of those businesses have blamed the problems on CC&IG, which Oakland city staff has put in charge of the eviction negotiations.
This week, city staff members reported to CEDA that lease termination agreements had been signed with Pacific Coast Coast Container, against whom the city recently filed an unlawful detainer action in Superior Court in order to ensure the company’s departure. PCC officials were not contesting their removal, but had only sought to delay it until they could secure a space on the Port of Oakland side of the old Army Base property.
At this week’s CEDA meeting, a number of organizations and community leaders came out to express support for Oakland Maritime Support Services (OMSS), the truck support company which has also been having difficulty moving from the Oakland portion of the old Army Base to the port side.

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Oakland Housing and Community Development Department Awards $80.5 Million to Affordable Housing Developments

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6 months ago

June 17, 2025

Oakland Post

Special to The Post

The City of Oakland’s Housing and Community Development Department (Oakland HCD) announced its awardees for the 2024-2025 New Construction of Multifamily Affordable Housing Notice of Funding Availability (New Construction NOFA) today Five permanently affordable housing developments received awards out of 24 applications received by the Department, with award amounts ranging from $7 million to $28 million.

In a statement released on Jan. 16, Oakland’s HCD stated, “Five New Construction Multifamily Affordable Housing Development projects awarded a total of $80.5 million to develop 583 affordable rental homes throughout Oakland. Awardees will leverage the City’s investments to apply for funding from the state and private entities.”

In December, the office of Rebecca Kaplan, interim District 2 City Councilmember, worked with HCD to allocate an additional $10 Million from Measure U to the funding pool. The legislation also readopted various capital improvement projects including street paving and upgrades to public facilities.

The following Oakland affordable housing developments have been awarded in the current round:

Mandela Station Affordable

238 Affordable Units including 60 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $15 million + previously awarded $18 million
Developer: Mandela Station LP (Pacific West Communities, Inc. and Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC)
City Council District: 3
Address: 1451 7th St.

Liberation Park Residences

118 Affordable Units including 30 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $28 million
Developer: Eden Housing and Black Cultural Zone
City Council District: 6
Address: 7101 Foothill Blvd.

34th & San Pablo

59 Affordable Units including 30 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $7 million
Developer: 34SP Development LP (EBALDC)
City Council District: 3
Address: 3419-3431 San Pablo Ave.

The Eliza

96 Affordable Units including 20 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $20 million
Developer: Mercy Housing California
City Council District: 3
Address: 2125 Telegraph Ave.

3135 San Pablo

72 Affordable Units including 36 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $10.5 million
Developer: SAHA and St. Mary’s Center
City Council District: 3
Address: 3515 San Pablo Ave.

The source of this story is the media reltations office of District 2 City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.

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Oakland Housing and Community Development Department Awards $80.5 Million to Affordable Housing Developments

Published

10 months ago

January 30, 2025

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Rebecca Kaplan, interim District 2 city councilmember. File photo.

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The following Oakland affordable housing developments have been awarded in the current round:

Mandela Station Affordable

238 Affordable Units including 60 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $15 million + previously awarded $18 million
Developer: Mandela Station LP (Pacific West Communities, Inc. and Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC)
City Council District: 3
Address: 1451 7th St.

Liberation Park Residences

118 Affordable Units including 30 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $28 million
Developer: Eden Housing and Black Cultural Zone
City Council District: 6
Address: 7101 Foothill Blvd.

34th & San Pablo

59 Affordable Units including 30 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $7 million
Developer: 34SP Development LP (EBALDC)
City Council District: 3
Address: 3419-3431 San Pablo Ave.

The Eliza

96 Affordable Units, including 20 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $20 million
Developer: Mercy Housing California
City Council District: 3
Address: 2125 Telegraph Ave.

3135 San Pablo

72 Affordable Units including 36 dedicated for Homeless/Special Needs
Award: $10.5 million
Developer: SAHA and St. Mary’s Center
City Council District: 3
Address: 3515 San Pablo Ave.

The source of this story is media reltations office of District 2 City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.

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Oakland Acquisition Company’s Acquisition of County’s Interest in Coliseum Property on the Verge of Completion

The Board of Supervisors is committed to closing the deal expeditiously, and County staff have worked tirelessly to move the deal forward on mutually agreeable terms. The parties are down to the final details and, with the cooperation of OAC and Coliseum Way Partners, LLC, the Board will take a public vote at an upcoming meeting to seal this transaction.

Published

11 months ago

January 11, 2025

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Alameda County Board of Supervisors Chairman David Haubert. Official photo.

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The County of Alameda announced this week that a deal allowing the Oakland Acquisition Company, LLC, (“OAC”) to acquire the County’s 50% undivided interest in the Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum complex is in the final stages of completion.

Oakland has already finalized a purchase and sale agreement with OAC for its interest in the property. OAC’s acquisition of the County’s property interest will achieve two longstanding goals of the County:

The Oakland-Alameda Coliseum complex will finally be under the control of a sole owner with capacity to make unilateral decisions regarding the property; and
The County will be out of the sports and entertainment business, free to focus and rededicate resources to its core safety net

In an October 2024 press release from the City of Oakland, the former Oakland mayor described the sale of its 50% interest in the property as an “historic achievement” stating that the transaction will “continue to pay dividends for generations to come.”

The Board of Supervisors is pleased to facilitate single-entity ownership of this property uniquely centered in a corridor of East Oakland that has amazing potential.

“The County is committed to bringing its negotiations with OAC to a close,” said Board President David Haubert.