Point Molate
Four-term City Councilman Tom Butt took on a range of key local issues during a 90-minute roundtable interview with Richmond Confidential staff and professors Dec. 9. The interview was held at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the City Council will discuss The Plunge, assess how a local hiring policy is performing and peer into the financials behind the $100 million Civic Center renovation project.
The environmental group that sued to stop the development of a casino at Point Molate is looking to settle. But the deal may be dead in the water if other environmental organizations don’t drop their opposition.
I applaud the efforts of the developer Jim Levine to make the Point Molate project environmentally friendly. I applaud the efforts of Citizens for East Shore Parks, CESP, for its efforts to negotiate the preservation and restoration of the north Richmond shoreline as a condition of dropping their lawsuit and allowing the Point Molate casino to move forward. I believe that preservation and restoration of our wetlands is essential. Despite these positive developments, however, I remain concerned that a large casino will be bad for…
For the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians, the proposed casino resort is more than a lucrative economic prospect; it’s a means to an end.
The Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians may have an opportunity to open a casino at Point Molate, but the tribe’s path to prosperity relies on a maze of state and federal regulations and the approval of the country’s secretary of the interior.
The Contra Costa Board of Supervisors on Tuesday reversed its stance and voted in favor of the Point Molate resort complex. The county is guaranteed $12 million a year as soon as construction starts.
Opposition to a Las Vegas-style casino resort in Richmond is collapsing as casino backers hand over promises for millions of dollars, thousands of jobs and major environmental concessions.
Contra Costa County Supervisors considered whether to support a casino in Richmond. The payoff: $12 million a year.