East Palo Alto, CALIF.—Waiting for her doctor, six-year-old Alejandra Vazquez sat patiently on the check-up table, every fidget crinkling the paper beneath her. Yesterday a dentist at Willow Dental Care in San Jose extracted one of her baby teeth. Alejandra said the dentist pulled the tooth because “it was loose,” but her mom explained, through a translator, that the tooth was decayed and that Alejandra needed several cavities filled.
STANFORD, CA.–Lack of investor interest and economic adversity have kept East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood district in a 20-year redevelopment gridlock, but the city is moving ahead on a proposal that would rezone the area to spur job growth and make Ravenswood a new city hub. “The city needs to be able to insure investors that
The California Legislature created the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in 1970 to protect the increasingly vulnerable environment from potentially damaging development projects. More recently, developers and environmentalists each have conflicting issues with the laws. California environmentalists have long celebrated the enactment of CEQA as a measure to ensure that developers do their part to
On Feb. 11, SunPower announced the acquisition of European solar company SunRay Renewable Energy for $277 million in what analysts see as a company strategy to stabilize itself in the volatile solar market. For $235 million in cash and $42 million in a letter of credit, SunPower will adopt a project pipeline of solar photovoltaic
EAST PALO ALTO–The longstanding debate over the building of East Palo Alto’s first full-scale grocery store erupted Oct. 6, when nearly 200 residents streamed into the City Council meeting to express their frustrations. In June of 2009, the Planning Commission approved building permits and liquor licenses for what will be the 13th Mi Pueblo food
Known as the “father of modern transit service in Silicon Valley,” Rod Diridon orchestrated the Guadalupe Corridor Rail Line project in 1988, despite strong opposition from Californians content to drive their gas guzzling cars. The line from San Jose to Santa Clara was Diridon’s first rail project, and only the third of its kind in