To hell with creating a “world class” reuse plan for the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS). Let’s build a Spaceport and have a Galactic Class project! Screw Helen Allen and building executive housing to the top of the hills above Pittsburg! Let’s build Spaceport California and make some serious bank, instead.
Reports show that the Spaceport America, currently under construction in the New Mexico desert, will employ 2,300 people with a payroll of $300,000,000 within five years and $1 Billion within the decade. Dammit, let’s change Concord’s slogan from, “The City where some families come first,” to “Concord, the Final Frontier!”
Incidentally, did you know that the State of California actually has a Space Authority? And it is already licensing companies beginning to do business with Virgin Galactic’s plans to become a viable commercial space tourist industry. How did we not see this one coming? Blame it on the stupid bullet train, I suppose. How 19th Century is that?
It’s not too late Concord. Let’s get a piece of this while we still can. City Council should appoint Helen Allen as lead conniver and beam her up put to work on this immediately. Between her connections with Shaw and the Navy, Concord could make the dream of an intermodal port located in North Concord an out of this world reality!