“The heartbeat of Caspar has stopped,” a grandmother grieved, when the Caspar Lumber Company mill closed down. But the 1955 report of Caspar’s death was premature. Caspar’s heart lay not in its mill but in its community, a long dormant force that flamed back to potent vitality when sparked by a real estate crisis in 1997.
Back in the early oughts (aka 2000-2001) there were a couple of high profile slides of vineyards onto roadways.
The state’s nearly $120 million plan to build a new Mendocino County Courthouse is shaping up to be the single biggest investment ever in Ukiah’s downtown.
It presents an opportunity to rectify one of the county’s worst moves, the destruction a half century ago of an historic and beautiful brick courthouse and its replacement with a [...]
The state’s nearly $120 million plan to build a new Mendocino County Courthouse is shaping up to be the single biggest investment ever in Ukiah’s downtown.
It presents an opportunity to rectify one of the county’s worst moves, the destruction a half century ago of an historic and beautiful brick courthouse and its replacement with a [...]
The economic viability of Ukiah’s historic downtown is going to be shaped not by warring development factions but by a pending state decision on where to build a new Mendocino County Courthouse.
The state Department of Finance is expected to act by May.
The state is already moving ahead with new courthouse projects in Santa Rosa and [...]
Planning Director Nash Gonzalez is a man whose consciousness might be described as “highly evolved” or non-existent. Is he putting us on or is he clinically delusional?
With a straight face, Gonzalez listed his “accomplishments” at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting:
• The General Plan Update. An accomplishment? It took ten years and several million dollars [...]
by Freda Moon
Here we go again.
After sitting on the market for a year, the White Ranch property has sold. This time the buyer is not a predatory, out-of-town developer with his heart set on ticky-tacky boxes and a subdivision of half-acre parcels. Instead, the new owners—a small band of the Pomo nation—are local: the Potter Valley Tribe. [...]
On October 6 the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the 200-unit housing development project south of Ukiah known as “Garden’s Gate.”
Ironists traveling Ukiah’s State Street north of Garden’s Gate will wonder where the garden is, but irony is as scarce in the Ukiah Valley these days as water at this proposed tract at a time [...]
In early 2005, Ukiah Developer Chris Stone imagined his Garden’s Gate development for an abandoned vineyard parcel south of Ukiah. Almost five years later, and just last week, the County and the Board of Supervisors finally got around to dealing with Stone’s costly Environmental Impact Report.
Whatever you think of tract developments and their developers, Stone [...]
by Jake Isaac
Just behind the Zina Hyde Cunningham Tasting Room here in downtown Boonville, a brief road ran straight as a string east toward Anderson Creek. The road ran. Past tense. Farrer Lane, as it’s called now, jogs a several feet northwest before it resumes its due east path to Anderson Creek where it ends in a [...]
