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city <br />of <br />NE <br />leandro <br />SLETTER <br />for an informed <br />- -~. <br />P~ 6 <br />z m <br />U ~ <br />~ T <br />~ 2 <br />~6 ^_ <br />~~~6 196 <br />~-~ ~~: ~. <br />- .~ <br />a. <br />IviAY, 1979 / `~~>;~ aaz VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 <br />t~es~gn concept) <br />San Leandro's downtown redevelop- <br />ment program is moving ahead again after <br />a 6-month "vacation." <br />Development of the two-block vacant <br />area in the heart of downtown was un- <br />successfully attempted by a Say Area <br />development group over a four year <br />period. Time finally ran out, and the <br />Redevelopment Agency began interview- <br />ing new developer prospects early this <br />year. <br />The Agency received indications of <br />interest from about twenty developers <br />who have been active in this area. A <br />special screening committee that included <br />members of the Redevelopment Agency <br />(City Council) and members of the San <br />Leandro Development Committee inter- <br />viewed six developers. Then, after a month <br />interval, the committee reinterviewed <br />three of the original six. <br />Both the Agency and the Committee <br />agreed at the beginning of this process <br />that the failure of Orchard Park was not <br />Answer Me A <br />Since its inception in 1970, the City of <br />San Leandro Newsletter has attempted to <br />include articles of general public interest. <br />One of the homeowners associations has <br />given the Ciry an excellent suggestion, <br />and has contributed the first set of <br />questions for an article which will begin <br />with this issue. <br />This article will provide an avenue to <br />answer publicly some of the calls and <br />letters received. The City has encouraged <br />all homeowners associations to submit <br />questions and the public is invited to <br />write to the Community Relations <br />Representative, Ciry of San Leandro, <br />835 East 14th Street, San Leandro. <br />We're On Our Way Again! <br />just lost time in that necessary steps <br />required prior to development of the <br />shopping center (such as property acqui- <br />sition and clearance, legal requirements, <br />etc.) have been accomplished during that <br />time. A development stressing new <br />shopping facilities is still top priority, <br />with offices and banks acceptable only <br />as minor elements of the mix. This time, <br />emphasis was placed on developers <br />leasing ability, in -the feeling that pre- <br />liminary arrangements with key tenants <br />must precede design work. <br />After completion of all the screening <br />interviews, the committee and the Agency <br />have selected a local group including Jack <br />Brooks, Barbara Mathews Brooks and <br />their son William Mathews Brooks to <br />undertake the project. <br />Brookmat, as the new developer is <br />called, submitted a proposal that includes <br />a one-level parking area about four feet <br />below street level and a shopping plaza <br />above it. In some ways similar to the old <br />Question! <br />1. Please describe and explain the histori- <br />cal development of the Downtown <br />Redevelopment Project. Is the buying <br />up of downtown properties by the <br />City of San Leandro for redevelop- <br />ment purposes considered an unusual <br />practice for a city government? <br />The downtown redevelopment pro- <br />gram began in 1958 in response to con-, <br />cerns of the community about a rapidly <br />deteriorating downtown. This deteriora- <br />tion.was evidence by an increasing number <br />of vacant stores, decreased retail sales, <br />declining assessed valuations and overall <br />antiquated appearance of the downtown <br />shopping area. Thus, in an effort to renew <br />Orchard Park concept, this new proposal <br />will be less costly to develop and easier <br />to build, while retaining the landscape <br />mall and Mediterranean architectural <br />flavor of the earlier plan. The new plan is <br />to be called Mediterranean Plaza. A <br />preliminary sketch of the project design <br />reflecting the general character or style <br />of development is shown above. <br />The schedule provides two 90-day <br />periods for Brookmat .to firm up a <br />variety of development arrangements. <br />First on the list is tenant negotiation. If <br />that moves along as well as it has during <br />the first few weeks, design and the other <br />more predictable elements of the program <br />will follow in what both the developers <br />and the Agency hope will be a fairly <br />short timetable: What"short" is, for an <br />undertaking of this size, is frequently mis- <br />understood. An opening in time for <br />Christmas in 1981 is the target, and both <br />the developer and Agency will be working <br />hard to make thatpossible. <br />the heart of our community, the City <br />developed a plan for a massive clearance <br />project with Federal aid. This plan was <br />shelved in 196.0 when the Redevelopment <br />Agency decided to do a much smaller <br />project without Federal aid. (The Ciry <br />Council is also the Agency.) <br />For 8 years, the local effort was con- <br />fined to the five blocks between East <br />14th Street and Hays and between Davis <br />and West Juana. Safeway was built, a <br />number of commercial buildings were <br />rehabilitated and several new parking lots <br />were built by the Agency. <br />The areas east of East 14th, north of <br />Davis and west of Hays were added in <br />continued on page 7 <br />
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