{"id":92,"date":"2008-08-19T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terragrafix.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-08-19T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:16:00","slug":"public-market-development-plan-will-bring-more-traffic-few-benefits-to-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Public Market Development Plan Will Bring More Traffic, Few Benefits to Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Gz0hhePBpLU\/SK8DfO9cIII\/AAAAAAAAAEE\/Vb_NeNl6zLI\/s1600-h\/marketplace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237408726781796482\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Gz0hhePBpLU\/SK8DfO9cIII\/AAAAAAAAAEE\/Vb_NeNl6zLI\/s200\/marketplace.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Developer To Get $10 Million and Street Widening <?xml:namespace prefix = o \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Residents Might Get a Park \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 20 Years <o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>b<\/o:p>y Reem Assil<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p>One of Emeryville\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest development proposals received a green light last month, when the City Council gave its approval to a major overhaul of the Emeryville Public Market site. The plan is for a sprawling mall and office at the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart. Voting 4-1, the City Council approved a 25-year development plan that will add hundreds of housing units, additional commercial space, and a park to the existing site. The site now has a food court, an office building, and movie theater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Known officially as the Emeryville Marketplace, the current site is bounded by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 \/><st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">Shellmound Way<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>, the railroad tracks, <st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">64<sup>th<\/sup> Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>, and <st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">Christie Avenue<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>. The proposed expansion would add additional office space, 52,000 square feet of retail, and up to 340 new housing units on what are now large parking lots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Council Member John Fricke, the lone dissenter, voiced three major concerns: <\/p>\n<ul style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">TMG Partners, the project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s developer, requested and received approvals locking in zoning approval of any combination of residential\/commercial\/retail for 25 years. Fricke strongly objected to the fact that under the proposal, construction of the future park isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t required before the year 2028, 20 years from now.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">The plan involves extensive street-widening that will exacerbate the city&#8217;s traffic woes and conflicts with the city&#8217;s stated goal of encouraging more walking and bicycling.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">TMG Partners is requesting $10 million from the city. The money will likely pay for a parking garage. TMG claims that the return on the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investment over the next 25 years will be $60 million. But, the city has yet to recoup any of the millions it gave to Madison Marquette for construction of the Bay Street mall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parking garage, although similar repayment promises were made. The $10 million for the Marketplace garage will be taken from the city&#8217;s fund for capital improvements, like public parks and recreational areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\">\n<p>Many residents spoke on Tuesday night with similar concerns, particularly the seeming unwillingness of the city to take a stand and ask developers for more community benefits. People also said that street widening would result in more traffic, further compromising quality of life for city residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\">\n<p>Juanita Carrol Young, a Terraces resident, spoke of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real tangible returns\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on investment.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I expect things like bicycle and pedestrian safety, funding for the schools so that my daughter Larissa can have the best education and opportunities possible, and family-sustaining jobs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\"><strong>Reem Assil<\/strong> is a community organizer for EBASE. Reem is inspired by both her love for community and her understanding of the importance of building power in the labor movement. Her formative experience with coalition building and community organizing comes out of organizing in the Arab American community, in which her heart lies.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesecretnewsonline.com%2F%3Fp%3D92\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer To Get $10 Million and Street Widening Residents Might Get a Park \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in 20 Years by Reem Assil One of Emeryville\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest development proposals received a green light last month, when the City Council gave its approval to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/?p=92\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thesecretnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}