Business View Magazine | December 2019

290 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 Proud Partner of the City of San Pablo mack5.com | 510.595.3020 Project/Construction Management in the Built Environment resilience of the local area by creating more space for high water volumes to flow through. Periodically, we get heavy storms. This will reduce localized flooding. The new trail will increase opportunities for active transportation – biking and walking through the City. There will be little parklets and nice elements to encourage folks who are in the library, or at City Hall, to get outside, read, picnic, and really connect with the creek and natural resources we have in the City.” “It goes back to what’s driving economic development in the City,” says Charles Ching, Director of Community & Economic Development. “There used to be a corridor. It still exists – 23rd Street. Back in the days of redevelopment, that was poised to be the downtown district. It never materialized. What the City is doing now is creating a newer downtown. During the time of redevelopment, the City and the redevelopment agency relocated about 200 mobile home park residents, removed all the mobile homes, and turned the area into a developable parcel. Right now, there’s a new library that the City opened there. There’s a new Walgreens building. There are a couple of residential projects that are planned to go there. The County just opened a health clinic and is working on an 18,000-square-foot expansion. The City just built a new Women, Infants and Children Building there. But I think the biggest project that’s going to happen in that area is the relocation of our City Hall. We’re building a new LEED Gold, 40,000-square-foot City Hall on that site.” As part of the plans for a new City Hall, the City will build storm water infrastructure in the form of rain gardens that will reduce the amount of polluted storm water runoff entering San Pablo’s creeks. Another interesting project in the works is what the City is calling Municipal Broadband, which will involve the installation of approximately 78.6 miles of fiber-optic cable and conduit within San Pablo’s roads and public rights-of- way. “A lot of what happens in our daily lives