Development
The City Council voted Monday to extend a deadline to reach an agreement with the developer behind the Point Molate casino project. Without an extension, the city would have scrapped an agreement to earmark the land for a casino.
As much as $15 million more could enter the City of Richmond’s budget if a campaign called “End Chevron’s Perk” persuades voters to end a cap on the Chevron refinery’s utility users’ tax.
The Point Molate development and a proposed fee for alcohol vendors were discussed at the first city council meeting of 2010, prompting lively debate.
As a political and legal standoff between the city and its biggest taxpayer deepens, Chevron Corp. officials are hinting that their 107-year stay in Richmond may be in jeopardy.
Point Isabel was once a spot for people in San Francisco to host illegal prize fights, a naval shooting range, a dynamite storage facility, and a ceramic dumping ground, and now it is the home of Costco and a preferred location for dog lovers. See the time line for quick look back in time.
Despite a population that’s almost two-thirds non-white, Richmond has very little in the way of an ethnic press. Media professionals and analysts discuss the ramifications of its absence in a town like Richmond.
Richmond Confidential gets a tour of the past from Donald Bastin, Executive Director of the Richmond Museum of History.
A video in which Councilman Tom Butt explains his support for a pool divider at the soon-to-be restored Plunge in Point Richmond. The divider, called a “bulkhead,” received final approval from the City Council Dec. 15 by a 5-3 vote.
The city and Orton Development have different ideas about what constitutes progress in the rehabilitation of the Historic Ford Building.