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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
July 19, 2004 News in brief from the San Francisco Bay area Subheading Associated PressOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Oakland City Council is expected to give final approval to downtown revitalization plan on Tuesday. Mayor Jerry Brown's initiative, which will require a $61 million public subsidy, includes a mix of homes, restaurants and stores. "It's a great project, and it's long overdue," Brown said. "The people of Oakland deserve an exciting, vibrant downtown. This will reshape the city on its own, and it will really stimulate growth there." If the city council agrees, Oakland would provide a $61 million subsidy to help Forest City Enterprises build nearly 1,000 dwellings, 14,500 square feet of retail and a 25,000-square-foot public park on a site located a block from the 19th Street BART Station. Brown hopes new residents will enliven downtown after 5 p.m., when office workers leave for the day. The project has also drawn the support of environmental groups such as
the Greenbelt Alliance and Urban Ecology, which successfully argued for
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