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Developers pitch up to 2,000 homes, hotel, food hall, brewery and more at historic Richmond waterfront site
By Dean Boerner – Editorial intern, San Francisco Business Times
Feb 8, 2019, 1:44pm PST Updated a day ago

Richmond may come a step closer to developing an important waterfront site Tuesday night when four developers present their proposals for the historic area to city council.

Orton Development, Point Molate Partners (PMP), SunCal, and Samuelson Schafer will present a wide range of proposals on Feb. 12, the most expansive of which features 2,000 or more units of housing and at least 100,000 square feet of commercial development

The opportunity to develop the 413-acre site came out of a long-running lawsuit. The city reached a settlement in April with a Northern California Native American tribe and a developer that wanted to build a casino at Point Molate. As part of the settlement, a judge decided that any developer that builds on the site must set aside 70 percent of the land as open space and preserve historic buildings in the site's Winehaven Historic District. The court settlement requires a minimum of 670 residential units be built there.

Orton's proposal features several options, one sporting 1,100 residential units, and one “full community” option with 2,200 residential units spread across three areas of the 270-acre patch of land . . . .

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I was once almost shot by a spent bullet while standing on the Richmond BART platform. That has forever colored by opinion about Richmond's potential. But we'll see.