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The City of Alameda has been planning the redevelopment of Alameda Point since 2000. Complicating the redevelopment are number of constraints associated with the approximate 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2 ). There are land use constraints consisting of Tidelands Trust, soil and groundwater contamination, [ 3 ] and wildlife refuge buffer requirements.
Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) was a United States Navy Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, on San Francisco Bay. [ 1 ] NAS Alameda had two runways : 13–31 measuring 8,000 ft × 200 ft (2,438 m × 61 m) and 07-25 measuring 7,200 ft × 200 ft (2,195 m × 61 m).
The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990 provided "the basic framework for the transfer and disposal of military installations closed during the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process". [3] The process was created in 1988 to reduce pork barrel politics with members of Congress that arise when facilities face activity reductions ...
Originally known as Government Island, this artificial island was formed in 1913 by the dredging project that extended the Oakland Estuary to San Leandro Bay.The Coast Guard first came to the island in 1926 when it established "Base 11" under an Executive Order signed in September 1931 that gave title to a 15-acre (6.1 ha) tract for a permanent base.
In 1993, following a Base Realignment and Closure commission decision, it was announced that Naval Air Station Alameda would be shut down. [1] In anticipation of the closure, Barbara Baack and Marilyn York, former WAVES, opened the museum in the 118,000 sq ft (11,000 m 2) Hangar 41 in 1995. However, the poor condition of the hangar and a lack ...
Alameda Point and Southshore are built on bay fill. Coast Guard Island. Not all of Alameda Island is part of the City of Alameda; a small portion of a dump site west of the former runway at Alameda Naval Air Station extends far enough into San Francisco Bay that it is over the county line and therefore part of the City and County of San ...
On 1 June 1936, the city of Alameda, California gave the airport to the United States government a few months before the Army discontinued operations from the field. Congressional appropriations for construction passed in 1938 and allowed naval air station operations to begin on 1 November 1940.
Alameda City Hall is a historic city hall civic building in Alameda, California. [2] [3] The building has been continually used since it was first built in 1895. [2]It has a historical marker erected in 1998 by the Native Sons of the Golden West; [4] and is listed as one of the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.