Development

Richmond named as finalist in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab campus bid

Richmond moved forward yesterday in the competition to be the site for a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).  The city’s Richmond Field Station, already owned by UC Berkeley, is one of six finalists.  Other finalists are in Berkeley, Alameda, Albany, and Oakland. LBNL has outgrown its current location in the hills above UC Berkeley, and Richmond has long looked to the site as part of a plan to bolster the city’s growing green- and clean-technology sector….