Timeline of Castro Valley’s Daughtrey’s Building
- By : Castro Valley Matters
- Category : Alameda County, Economic Development, Governance, MAC
- Tags: Daughtrey's Building, downtown castro valley, MAC, Municipal Advisory Council, Town Square
Alameda County
- The Daughtrey’s department store opened at 3295 Castro Valley Boulevard on November 3, 1965.
- The Daughtrey’s family sold their department store in 1991. The store closed at some point in the 1990s and was used intermittently for various businesses, including a billiards hall and a Halloween store.
- The former Alameda County Redevelopment Agency paid $2.8 million for the building in 2011; it appraised at $950,000 in 2013. The on-going delay in the transfer and redevelopment of the building stems from the complexity of the redevelopment agency dissolution process. Redevelopment agencies, including Alameda County’s, were dissolved by the State of California as a way to use their assets to help balance State and local budgets in the wake of the “Great Recession.”
- In 2014, Castro Valley Matters advocated that the site be retained by the county, the building be torn down, and the space be transformed into a town square. The MAC, however, voted for the building to be sold to David Greensfelder, who said that several businesses were interested in occupying the space at the time, according to an article in the East Bay Times.
- The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement to sell the Daughtrey’s building to Greensfelder Commercial Real Estate LLC for $860,000 at its June 24, 2014 meeting.
- The County took direct possession of the building in February 2016.
- In November 2016, Greensfelder proposed a Lost Worlds “family entertainment center” as the sole occupant of the Daughtrey’s building.
- At a November 28, 2016 MAC meeting, public speakers overwhelmingly spoke against the Lost Worlds project as did members of the MAC. Greensfelder later withdrew his proposal to develop the site.
- In February 2017, the MAC met to discuss a draft RFI for a “catalyst project” and an “upscale restaurant” for the site.
- On March 1, 2017, Alameda County Community Development Agency (CDA) issued the RFI.
- CDA received six compliant proposals by the March 24 deadline.
- A selection committee that included three Castro Valley Municipal MAC members (Chair Marc Crawford, Sheila Cunha and Ken Carbone), Eileen Dalton and Susan McCue from CDA, Sonia Urzua from the Alameda County Planning department, and Stuart Cook, Director of Alameda County’s Surplus Property Authority interviewed the six “responsive” proposals and selected three finalists that will be considered at the MAC’s June 1, 2017 meeting.
- Rankings for the top three proposals can be found in this document.
- At its June 1, 2017, after two different 3-to-3 votes, (the seventh MAC seat was vacant pending an appointment by the Board of Supervisors), the MAC effectively delayed action until July 17, 2017. Listen to the MAC meeting recording here.
- The Castro Valley MAC is expected to select a preferred developer at its July 17. 2017 meeting at 6:00 pm at the Castro Valley Library.
