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Empty for 50 years, a waterfront dirt lot in Antioch is about to sprout. What should it become?

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Urban Development/Real Estate

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Prieve, J.(2024, January 19)Empty for 50 years, a waterfront dirt lot in Antioch is about to sprout. What should it become?East Bay Times https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/01/19/empty-for-50-years-a-waterfront-dirt-lot-in-antioch-is-about-to-sprout-what-should-it-become/

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Empty for 50 years, a waterfront dirt lot in Antioch is about to sprout. What should it become?

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The former Beede Lumber yard could be transformed into a town center, event venue and more.

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Residents in Antioch, California will have the opportunity to discuss with the city leaders and developers about the old waterfront dirt lot that's been there for 50 years. In the past the community have fought against multi-level housing and development to be done on the lot. The community aren't against housing however they would like to build meaningful gathering place for the community. The city is still planning to construct anything in that lot to expand their downtown area and increase foot traffic like how the neighboring cities have done.

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Antioch is a city in the Bay Area that is located in the East Bay side. Antioch is mostly populated of higher middle class to middle class families and not as much diversity as like Richmond or Oakland. Antioch is located near the San Joaquin River.

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Antioch residents has been fighting to prevent development on the waterfront for over 20 years. The community doesn't want a boring/basic condos and townhomes (they aren't opposed). They want to build a beautiful gathering area for the land.

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Some of the planning issues under consideration:

-The community does not want just housing development in the empty waterfront, they want a gathering spot for the community.

-The city wants to construct a thriving downtown area to increase foot traffic and revenue.

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The debates that is going on in this article is to determine what should be built in the empty waterfront and how can it bring more foot traffic and tourism. What would be more useful for the community and for the city?

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There are no change to policy.

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The current status of the planning project is that the city of Antioch and the consultant will be host two workshops to gather intel on what the community envisions what the outdoor community space would look like. The first workshop will be at Feb 8th and the second will be at Feb 18th.

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This article showed me that cities in the Bay Area are still trying to expand and becoming more urban. I am honestly surprised that the city of Antioch are looking for community input because when I lived in the bay area, I never really heard about cities meeting with the community to provide input on developments. This planning project is very interesting to me because I would really like for the waterfront lot becomes a beautiful community gathering space that resembles the waterfront of Seattle. This does affect me because I would love to see what the residents and the city agree on building.