Bits and pieces, development-y stuff

Big news, Lennar just purchased the Chipman Terminals lot from the developer that worked so hard to entitle the property last year.  From the San Francisco Business Times:

The site was recently picked up by homebuilder Lennar, which plans to build 89 homes on the 7.2-acre plot at 1551 Buena Vista Ave.

Lennar bought the site for $17 million from Trident Partners, which spent close to a decade entitling the site for 52 single family homes and a 37-unit condo building and finally bought the property in January 2013.

This, of course, is the cleanest and most straightforward of the three properties that used to be owned by Peter Wang.  I believe Peter Wang only owns the Del Monte building now after years and years for trying to develop the three properties into something.

In more development related stuff, a new Day Spa recently went before the Zoning Administrator for approval, if successful it will be on the second floor of the building in which Pacific Pinball is housed.

And word is although there is no lease yet, I know that Pacific Pinball is working with the City to try to come to some sort of agreement on the Carnegie Building.  Problem is that when I asked the City via email about this I was told to call someone about it.  Did I ever tell you guys that I don’t make phone calls?   Yeah, I don’t.   I mean sometimes something is so big I will reluctantly break this rule and make a call, but in general no calls, no face to face meetings.   Probably because I’m lazy and antisocial.   Mostly because I’m lazy.

Anyway, nothing is in writing yet, but Pacific Pinball has been hinting at it on their Facebook page and I know the City is interested in actually having the Carnegie be something useful and what a perfect solution that could be, right?

A new Pho and Crawfish restaurant is coming to the old Travelodge Inn restaurant space, you know where the old buffet used to be?   Cue someone complaining about there being too many Asian restaurants in Alameda.

At tonight’s Historic Advisory Board, Ed Hirschberg of the suing the School District fame is asking for permission to put up a stairwell on the back of his building because, well…because look:

I mean that’s some pretty janky stuff right there.

And finally, Target is going to be making their targeted opening date and even better.   Looks like they will be hitting an October 9th opening date instead of the October 13th that is on their signage.   If you haven’t been around the Alameda Landing site lately there has been a flurry of work with new traffic signals and re-striped lanes.   The Mariner Square Loop entrance is particularly jarring because where it used to be these huge fences where only huge trucks would pass through now you can see straight down the street to the backside of Target.