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	<title>Waterfront Watch &#187; intermodal station</title>
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	<description>Neighbors protecting neighbors in the Hercules Waterfront.</description>
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		<title>Draft EIR Scheduled to be Released Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/draft-eir-scheduled-to-be-released-tomorrow.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/draft-eir-scheduled-to-be-released-tomorrow.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anderson-pacific]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited and delay-plagued draft EIR for the Intermodal Station project is set to be released to the public on Wednesday. Or so it seems. (I&#8217;ll post a link when it goes live.) The release of the document clears a significant hurdle for the project. The remaining hurdle is the land transfer between the developer/landowner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidate Roundtable</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/candidate-roundtable.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/candidate-roundtable.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some rather incoherent commentary from our humble elected officials (on three issues: Intermodal Station and waterfront development, affordable housing, and the City Manager)&#8230; Highlights include: Joe Eddy McDonald stating that there would be no delay in the Intermodal Station&#8217;s federal funding (but not mentioning the construction delay), plus stating that the surrounding development has nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Defends City Manager&#8217;s High Salary; &#8230; Uhm, Hilltown</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/city-defends-city-managers-high-salary-uhm-hilltown.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/09/city-defends-city-managers-high-salary-uhm-hilltown.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hilltown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new town center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redevelopment agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sycamore crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sycamore park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victoria by the bay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City responded last week to the news that the Hercules City Manager is the highest paid executive in West Contra Costa County. The response was rather bland, but it did include footnotes. And it hasn&#8217;t garnered media attention. There was some news made however, or acknowledgment of an as-of-yet unspoken truth. The City outlined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Revises Schedule for Intermodal Station; Construction To Begin April 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/city-revises-schedule-for-intermodal-station-construction-to-begin-april-2011.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/city-revises-schedule-for-intermodal-station-construction-to-begin-april-2011.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anderson-pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City has published a questions answered memo with respect to the apparent delay in the construction of the Intermodal Station (with the environmental documents currently a principal sticking point). The memo includes an updated schedule with construction beginning no sooner than April 2011, assuming no unanticipated delays of course. With the expected 30 months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermodal Station PM in April: EIR done in June</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/intermodal-station-pm-in-april-eir-done-in-june.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/intermodal-station-pm-in-april-eir-done-in-june.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The project manager for the Intermodal Station project &#8212; Jesse Harder of HDR &#8212; presented an update to the community at the aptly named Community Update event in April. At the 1:40 mark in the video below, Harder, who must have received training to be a guest on Sesame Street, mentions that the City would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unanticipated Delays</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/unanticipated-delays.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/unanticipated-delays.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer the City published a project fact sheet for the Intermodal Station (screencap below), and its first and last bullet points are telling in light of the station&#8217;s delayed construction (emphasis added)&#8230; Hercules Intermodal Transit Center Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the Waterfront Project EIR are being prepared concurrently and should be released for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermodal Station Construction Delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/intermodal-station-construction-delayed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/08/intermodal-station-construction-delayed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anderson-pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ed balico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eir]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=8069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Environmental documents need to be finalized and certified prior to construction commencing for the Intermodal Station. The draft EIR was scheduled to be released earlier this year with construction slated to begin this summer. Alas, that will not happen (summer officially ends September 23). And there will likely be no press release. It wasn&#8217;t too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council to &#8220;Accept&#8221; Value Engineering Study</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/07/council-to-accept-value-engineering-study.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/07/council-to-accept-value-engineering-study.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planning commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redevelopment agency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=7570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City Council will receive a presentation at tomorrow evening&#8217;s meeting &#8212; 7pm at City Hall &#8212; on the consultant&#8217;s value engineering study for the Intermodal Station project. The study highlighted a potential $10m in savings (16 percent of total project cost) if the design and materials for the track-side retaining wall were substantially downgraded. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Begins to Scale Back on Intermodal Station</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/07/city-begins-to-scale-back-on-intermodal-station.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/07/city-begins-to-scale-back-on-intermodal-station.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bay trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easy-bake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=7498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to a value engineering study &#8212; conducted by the same firm (HDR) responsible for the design, but a separate office1 &#8212; to start pointing out elements the City could cut back on and save costs yet still retain the core function of the project, i.e., a train pulling into station, and dropping off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Capitol Corridor</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/06/the-capitol-corridor.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/06/the-capitol-corridor.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amtrak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitol corridor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=7054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barring any further debilitating condition of the funding mechanism, Capitol Corridor (Amtrak) will be stopping in Hercules in early 2013 (with the completion of the Intermodal Station, albeit a full 8 years behind schedule), and residents will soon grow accustomed to the sight and sound of a train pulling into station&#8230; (The video above is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hercules Bayfront Earns Distinction</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/05/hercules-bayfront-earns-distinction.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/05/hercules-bayfront-earns-distinction.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anderson-pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=6967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is bittersweet news. Waterfront developer AndersonPacific has released news that it has won an award &#8212; 2010 Gold Nugget merit winner (category 23) &#8212; for its Hercules Bayfront plan. That is very nice, however somewhat inconsequential, because it will do nothing to further privately-funded construction along the waterfront in the near-term. All work that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIGER II Grants on the Horizon</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/tiger-ii-grants-on-the-horizon.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/tiger-ii-grants-on-the-horizon.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bcdc]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=6808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Intermodal Station project was unfortunately overlooked to receive federal funding via a TIGER grant (USDOT) earlier this year. The good news is that there will be a TIGER II, the sequel, which differs slightly from the original TIGER grants in that it is markedly smaller in scale ($600m compared to $1.5b) and requires a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermodal Station Included In FY11 Federal Appropriations Request</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/intermodal-station-included-in-fy11-federal-appropriations-request.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/intermodal-station-included-in-fy11-federal-appropriations-request.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bayfront boulevard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermodal station]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative George Miller (CA-7) &#8212; the long-time congressman and California political legacy who represents Hercules in Washington &#8212; has included $3.12m for the Hercules Intermodal Station project in his FY11 appropriations request. If appropriated, the funds would be used for the &#8220;construction of the Bayfront Boulevard/Bridge and the purchase of an express bus.&#8221; The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Block J Revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/block-j-revealed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/04/block-j-revealed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=6583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Up until now, the building across the street from the future Intermodal Station has been a placeholder. Through meeting after public meeting exhaustively discussing the train station, the building across the street was just a blank box. That is no longer the case. The developer AndersonPacific revealed their initial plans for the building during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Hercules projects likely to stall, but redevelopment work force appears safe</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/03/times-hercules-projects-likely-to-stall-but-redevelopment-work-force-appears-safe.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2010/03/times-hercules-projects-likely-to-stall-but-redevelopment-work-force-appears-safe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hercules point]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certainly not promising news, but a realization of the state&#8217;s troubled finances nevertheless&#8230; &#8220;Hercules has weathered the recession better than many of its neighbors, but a state take-away of redevelopment funds could force some changes of plans.&#8221; The following projects would be delayed if the California Redevelopment Association loses the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of [...]]]></description>
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