LBNL community members support Richmond

By Evelyn Xiaoqing Pi | November 11, 2011

Although Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory representatives didn’t reveal the lab’s preference for a new location at Thursday night’s Community Advisory Group meeting, community members once again strongly supported Richmond as the site for the second LBNL campus. The meeting was the final update for the community on the site’s selection before the decision, which is…

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Richmond finds support at LBNL meeting

By Rachel Waldholz | September 23, 2011 |
Horst Simon, Deputy Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, spoke to the lab's Community Advisory Group on Thursday. The lab expects to choose a site for its second campus in November. (Photo by Maggie Beidelman)

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab representatives offered a limited update on their hunt for a second campus site to members of the lab’s Community Advisory Group Thursday. But while lab officials maintained their poker face, members of the CAG and public audience – few of them Richmond residents – were eager to recommend Richmond’s site. Richmond…

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