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Old 01-23-2012, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Congrats to Richmond, which beat out other bids from Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland. The lab will be the house 800 scientists who will develop many projects that are vital to national interests.

Just to show how big this actually is, here's a map of the only other National Laboratories of the Department of Energy. Richmond will join the ranks of such famously brainy places as Los Alamos, Livermore and Oak Ridge.


Conceptual drawing of the Richmond campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.


Story from the San Jose Mercury news:http://www.mercurynews.com/brea...ws/ci_19799972
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Old 01-23-2012, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Darn! I was hoping it would come to Oakland. The Lab had lots of great choices though.
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Old 01-24-2012, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Darn! I was hoping it would come to Oakland. The Lab had lots of great choices though.
I know it would have been great over here...but I think they considered the fact that that land in Richmond is already owned by UC.
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Old 01-24-2012, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Pomeroy, WA (Near Lewiston, ID)
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I'm happy for Richmond. Like Oakland, they've been kicked around by haters plus the fact that UC owns the land will make things simplier and less costly to taxpayers.
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Old 03-15-2012, 02:53 PM
 
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Stupid liberal decision not based on facts. Richmond is full of low class trashy people and is crime ridden. Plopping a billion dollar lab in the middle of it won't clean up the crime as those garbage people won't be able to work there. They won't be able to attract or retain top talent as no one wants to live or even go near that cess pool. This is based on crime statistics and persistently declining home values in the area.
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Old 03-15-2012, 05:15 PM
 
Location: The Bay
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Stupid liberal decision not based on facts. Richmond is full of low class trashy people and is crime ridden. Plopping a billion dollar lab in the middle of it won't clean up the crime as those garbage people won't be able to work there. They won't be able to attract or retain top talent as no one wants to live or even go near that cess pool. This is based on crime statistics and persistently declining home values in the area.

And you've personally been to Richmond how many times...?
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Old 03-15-2012, 05:16 PM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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Stupid liberal decision not based on facts. Richmond is full of low class trashy people and is crime ridden. Plopping a billion dollar lab in the middle of it won't clean up the crime as those garbage people won't be able to work there. They won't be able to attract or retain top talent as no one wants to live or even go near that cess pool. This is based on crime statistics and persistently declining home values in the area.
It's in Point Richmond, which is not nearly the same as the Iron Triangle and has easy access from Marin County via the bridge. I'm not going to try and trump up Richmond, but I think you're off base.
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Old 03-15-2012, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Stupid liberal decision not based on facts. Richmond is full of low class trashy people and is crime ridden. Plopping a billion dollar lab in the middle of it won't clean up the crime as those garbage people won't be able to work there. They won't be able to attract or retain top talent as no one wants to live or even go near that cess pool. This is based on crime statistics and persistently declining home values in the area.
A message from Richmond:


LOL
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