Richmond’s Commercial Real Estate Market
Click on The Richmond Review, 2nd Quarter 2016 for a summary of commercial real estate activity in Richmond. Highlights include: · Richmond is almost out of leasable warehouse space with the vacancy rate at 0.4%, although peak rental rates of over $0.50 from a year...
Richmond Unemployment Rate Hits New Record Low
The Richmond unemployment rate for June 2016 hit a new record low of 4.6%. Out of a labor pool of 52,900 people, only 2,400 are still looking for jobs. 50,500 are employed. That is the lowest on record and perhaps the lowest in Richmond history except for during WWII....
Police Overwhelmed by Fireworks and Celebratory Gunfire
Last night, Police Chief Allwyn Brown wrote: The Communication Center is experiencing a high volume of fireworks calls from neighborhoods across the city, in combination with recurring ShotSpotter activations - numbers that easily far exceed police officer staffing....
What’s With Cybertran?
Turns out, the guy who invented CyberTran was a classmate of mine at the University of Arkansas. That doesn’t mean I think it’s right to spend Richmond’s scarce monetary resources subsidizing the privately-owned company’s public relations efforts. Then I get bashed...
Richmond Police Department Personnel Reassigned as a Result of Onging Investigation
As the first shoe to fall from the active Richmond Police Department investigation arising from the "Celeste Guap" scandal, Police Chief Allwyn Brown announced that he has evaluated the logic of continuing two of the named employees in their current assignments whose...
City of Richmond Adopts Structurally Balanced FY 2016-17 Budget
For months, various media have delighted in stories about Richmond’s impending budget deficit, anticipating it as a fact around which to build a story rather than simply a challenge that the City had committed to overcome since early 2015. On November 22, 1015, the...
Boys and Men of Color Career Summit on July 21
The City of Richmond has partnered with the City of Oakland and several great organizations to host a Boys and Men of Color Career Summit on July 21. During the event, participants will have opportunities to interview with employers, connect to community resources,...
MJ’s Brass Boppers & Zydeco Flames: Free PRM Concert on Friday, 7/8!
MJ's Brass Boppers & Zydeco Flames take the stage: Friday, 7/8 + Last chance to vote for us Best of the East Bay! Following a great kick-off in June, Point Richmond Music's 15th annual free summer concert series continues on Friday, July 8th with MJ’s Brass...
Ranger Betty Soskin safe, recovering well
Ranger Betty Soskin safe, recovering well. Please consider contributing to Betty's fund. On the night of Monday, June 30, an intruder attacked NPS Ranger Betty Soskin in her home in Richmond and stole many of her possessions. We are all deeply saddened by these...
Richmond Homeowner Energy Efficiency Workshop, June 30
Point Molate and Upstream Litigation
Several people have been emailing me with concerns about a settlement tender made by Jim Levine regarding Point Molate. You may recall that after the City of Richmond terminated the 2004 Land Disposition Agreement with Upstream Point Molate, LLC (Jim Levine) and The...
City Manager’s Weekly Report for the Week Ending June 24, 2016
Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending June 24, 2016. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28th beginning with a Closed Session at 5:00 PM, followed by the Special Meeting of the...
June 28, 2016, Richmond City Council Agenda/Packet – CLOSED SESSION BEGINS AT 5:00 P.M.
The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Regular Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx
From Camping to Coal
After four days at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival where I had no phone or email contact, I packed our tent early this morning, stopped at a park to shower and dress, and headed for Sacramento where I testified at the invitation of Senator Loni Hancock at two...
Heart of Richmond BBQ this Saturday, 1-4!
For more information, please call Carmen at (510) 974-7200.
Urban Garden Showcase, Saturday, July 2 at 9:30 AM
Urban Garden Contest Showcase on July 2! Next Saturday we are kicking off our Urban Garden Contest Showcase! This event allows you to tour edible gardens throughout Richmond, and to meet some of our city’s top gardeners! You must register to tour participating gardens...
City Council Deadlocked on Budget
In a disappointing show of increasing dysfunctionality, the Richmond City Council failed to pass the balanced budget presented by City Manager Bill Lindsay last night. City Council members are increasingly consumed by their own ideology to the detriment of the city as...
Richmond considers litter tax on city businesses
Richmond considers litter tax on city businesses Richmond Standard Jun 22, 2016 Richmond City Council may ask voters in November to decide on a proposal to impose a litter tax on city businesses. On Tuesday, the council voted 6-1 to have city staff prepare a measure...
And Another Thing
It was after 11:00PM at last night’s City Council meeting, and the RPA3 + Myrick insisted on presenting a proposed Rent Control Moratorium that required six votes to pass. They knew the votes weren’t there, but they insisted on making the entire City Council and City...
From Space Weapons to Space Age Transportation
If space weapons weren’t enough the RPA is now promoting a space age transportation system that has never been tried, never been built (not even a working model) and has no major backers other than the City of Richmond. There are no employees, no jobs, no...