Move Fleet Week to another, more appreciative, city.
Correct, they have been after the Angels since the mid 80’s when Finestein was enraged because the Angels buzzed the commie consulate on Green Street.
I was in a building at 525 Market and it was great watching them zoom by the 29th floor at probably 250kts.
Far cry from WWII when my uncle was stationed at Treasure Island for a few weeks. His memories of that time and how the Navy was appreciated then verses how they are despised by the sh..h.le city now are startling.
Not only that but anything associated with the military must be removed. They’ll get the message when the money leaves.
I was involved in the shutdown of both McClellan AFB and Mather AFB in Sacramento, just over the hill to the east of Oakland. I have seen the withering away of Rancho Cordova in the south that was feeding off Mather and I’m told there is a problem with the economy in north Sacramento near McClellan.
If the navy takes offence to this action and treats it as the insult it is, and they pull out, they will finish taking the leading employer in the city out of the works.
The military base closures that swept the country in the 1990s, despite the promise of peacetime dividends, were gigantic blows to California, and to the Bay Area in particular. The Alameda Air Naval Station, which closed in 1997, employed some 18,200 people, and the Oakland Army Base, decommissioned two years later, employed 7,000. Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, with its 10,300 workers, was also closed; as was the Oakland Naval Supply Center, with 3,800 jobs; and Treasure Island Naval Air Station in San Francisco, with 3,300 workers.
The base closures throughout the ’90s—which also included San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and Oakland’s Oak Knoll Naval Medical Hospital—wiped away more than 100,000 jobs and billions of dollars worth of payroll revenue and defense contracts from the Bay Area. If they finish the job, the Bay area economy will finish ending up like the third world country they are currently goin into.
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No doubt... Or just close all Naval facilities in and around the city.
Have the Bureau of Reclamation divert their water for bait fish.