The Pacific Sun wrote an article about the Marinwood Village project.
The Marinwood Village plan is still includes a grocery store, ancillary retail, a plaza or community gathering area, and a redesign of Marinwood Avenue with not more than 100 residential units. The project is being delayed by worse than expected contamination from the dry cleaner. […]

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I was just minding my own business and working on being tan, ready, and rested when all hell breaks loose in my own community over the whole Marinwood Plaza plan. Long-time readers of this blog know that I have special interest in what happens to that eyesore of a plaza just off the Marinwood exit. […]

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Marinwood Plaza, originally uploaded by denisecastellucci.
The last time we talked about the Marinwood Plaza, we were all doing the happy dance because we heard that the Marinwood Plaza […]

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With all due respect to his death metal minions, Metallica rocker, James Hetfield maybe slowly losing his rocker credentials after denying access to his open space due to finding too many beer bottles and cigarette butts.
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If you haven’t already heard the Marinwood Plaza has been bought by developer, Trammel Crow ending over 50 years of ownership by Hoytt Enterprises. Trammel Crow is a Dallas-based real estate and investment company. According to Bill Hansel, the plans are still slated as multi-use, but no design work has started yet. Peter Brandon, […]

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In a October 31st article, Marin IJ reports that there is a proposal floating around to have old fashioned electric trolleys connecting cities and towns of Marin. The architects estimate it would cost $20 million to $50 million to get a demonstration line running between The Depot in Mill Valley and the ferry terminal in […]

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On September 25, 2007 Supervisors Steve Kinsey, Judy Arnold and Hal Brown voted to allow more development on the Silviera Ranch/St. Vincents property than the Marin County Planning Commission recommended. Only Susan Adams and Charles McGlashan voted to uphold the commission’s recommendations which would have limited it to 221 units (100 units for low income […]

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One of my favorite websites, Marin POS, a site that has been documenting the outrageous real estate market through pictures and pretty realtor prose. In other words, as Marinite says, testing the Bigger Fool Theory. The most recent properties has the following write up:
“Former grateful dead retreat! (in the early 1970’s). This is a very […]

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from sausalito, originally uploaded by chezamy.
Thanks to chezamy for taking and posting this on flickr.com. This was taken from Sausalito. The more fog that rolls into the San Francisco Bay, the cooler it will be […]

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It’s hard out here for a maven. It’s hard to be civilized or sane when its so darned hot.
So, have you ever got out of your car after blasting the A/C and get smacked by a wave of unbearable heat and think, “How do people live like this?!?”, only to realize you DO live like […]

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Marinwood Village Concept in 3D,
originally uploaded by denisecastellucci.

This is the 3D representation of the proposed supermarket, plaza, parking lot and mixed use building.

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Let’s start off with the assumption that everyone in Marinwood and perhaps the surrounding neighborhoods would love to have a nice local market in the Marinwood Plaza. We may disagree on the type of market, but no one would complain if there was one to replace the Bell Market that closed in January.
The meeting that […]

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The presentation for the proposed Marinwood Village plan is scheduled for Monday, July 10, 2006 at 7:30 P.M. at the Marinwood Community Center.
The community representatives start the announcement of this meeting by stating, “Whether or not the Marinwood Community gets a grocery store is now up to you.” It is interesting that no where in […]

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The May 10th, Novato Advance’s Mary Connell reports that Safeway Stores, Inc. submitted plans for a 55,000 foot superstore at 5800 Nave Drive at the site of the old Nave Bowl. The proposed store will be a part of what will be called, Hamilton Gateway which will also feature a 47k-square-foot retail building and a […]

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