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How the Bay Area s biggest housing development fell apart in 2020
Adam Brinklow
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Overall views of the Concord Naval Weapons Station looking south towards the city of Concord, Calif. Weapons magazines are in the foreground, the city is off in the distance.Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images
How do you kickstart a historically ambitious, multibillion-dollar housing development while the world’s economies remain paralyzed?
That’s the dilemma facing Concord after 2020, a year that not only dashed financial markets and upended everyday life across the Bay Area, but also wrecked this city’s critical redevelopment project at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a huge disused military facility that could be its only means of significantly expanding housing stock.