The City of Concord Local Reuse Authority has reached a financial agreement with the United States Navy regarding the purchase and payment terms for approximately 2,422 acres at the former Concord Naval Weapons Station, which is slated for redevelopment as part of the Concord Community Reuse Project under an Economic Development Conveyance. The agreement is backed by the project’s master developer, Brookfield Properties. The Local Reuse Authority and the Navy are reviewing the proposed Navy Term Sheet simultaneously. The Concord City Council, acting as the LRA, is scheduled to consider the Navy Term Sheet, updates to the existing Brookfield Term Sheet, and amendments to Brookfield’s Exclusive Negotiating Agreement during its May 26, 2026 meeting. Approval of the agreement would allow the LRA and Brookfield to begin drafting the project’s Specific Plan and other key entitlement documents needed to move forward with redevelopment of the former naval base.
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… and what kind of backroom deals are being made that we’ll never hear about …. this is ripe for pork & pet projects
Get ready for a huge tax increase.
And an increase for all City services.
The good citizens of Concord are going to pay dearly for this scheme.
We’ve passed a milestone. A full DECADE of the Guy Bjerke Shuffle and spin ~~
Find a very busy agenda, add practically a ‘restart’ with new Navy personnel? Hmmm?
Yep. Here we go again….
Smothered somewhere in the upcoming melee AKA agenda… the new and improved… “Amendments.”
BJerky’s Notorious Decade of Self Promotion, Taxpayer Flagellation, Palm-up Negotiation.
Talk another Council into aother dizzying spin until he lands what ‘he’ wants from a developer.
Annually talk either a weary or fledgeling council into approving his wild-card Developer Shuffle,
…and then? Dribble-Drabble…here come the… yep!
The ‘amendments’:
In case you’re new. to town.. a reminder.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/02/01/guy-bjerke-initially-passed-over-to-lead-concord-weapons-station-project/
“CONCORD — Guy Bjerke, hired last year as Concord’s director of community reuse
planning, initially did not make the cut for the high-profile job after a panel of experts said
he lacked the experience to lead the Concord Naval Weapons Station project, records show.
But Bjerke, a politically connected former councilman, was given a second chance to make
his case. And Concord’s elected leaders unanimously supported hiring him instead of a candidate the expert panel considered more qualified.”
(Please read it all)
Does anybody even remember all those original decades-old Plans? What it would have cost
us to do the early work on this back then, vs. at today’s dollars? Willow Pass Rd-that Bridge?
How many times have we paid for some HeadHunter Co to “find the right Developer?”
Round ‘n’ Round she goes 🎡 where she stops…nobody knows.
I didn’t realize Concord was having to pay the Navy for that land; certainly not $628 million. “If the project financially performs to plan, the Navy should receive approximately $628 million over a thirty-year build-out of the project.” Agenda Staff Report for – 05_26_2026 _ ~OB_AM – LRA – APPROVER _ CONSIDERI.pdf