[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Richmond: Point Molate [CA] to be sold for $400 to Native American tribe after 270-acre development plan fizzles"

[Lenny Siegel]

Richmond: Point Molate to be sold for $400 to Native American tribe after 270-acre development plan fizzles
The Guidiville Rancheria of California tribe and its developer, Upstream Point Molate, LLC, are now poised to purchase the shoreline property

By KATIE LAUER 
Bay Area News Group
May 19, 2022 

A years-long, million-dollar effort to develop Richmond’s Point Molate has unraveled, and hundreds of acres of prime Bay Area shoreline property now may be sold for a bargain $400 to the Native American tribe that once wanted to build a mega casino there.

It’s unclear what the Guidiville Rancheria of California tribe and its developer, Upstream Point Molate, LLC, will do with the land. Their attorney could not be reached for comment.

The envisioned development was officially killed when the Richmond City Council voted 4-2 Tuesday against proceeding with a planned $45 million sale of the land to Winehaven Legacy LLC. Mayor Tom Butt and Councilmember Nathaniel Bates dissented. Councilmember Demnlus Johnson was absent.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/18/richmond-point-molate-to-be-sold-for-400-to-native-american-tribe-after-270-acre-development-plan-fizzles

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)