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Reading through the Hacienda Business Park monthly update and the Weekly, it’s clear just how much of center for medical care Pleasanton/Livermore is becoming.
Stanford ValleyCare has its hospital at West Las Positas and Santa Rita and has approved plans to build a second 60,000-square-foot tower.
That’s on top of the three-building 200,000-square-foot Hacienda Lakes complex it already purchased for its expanding programs including a family medicine residency program. It already has a cancer center, a stroke specialty and expanded orthopedics center.
Stanford certainly is not alone. Sutter and its affiliated Palo Alto Medical Group executed two leases totaling more than 80,000 square feet to expand its services in Hacienda Business Park.
And John Muir already has a major building in Hacienda. Both Stanford and Sutter have facilities in Dublin across I-580 off Tassajara Road (the Dublin side of Santa Rita Road).
Watching coverage of the Los Angeles and other Southern California riots, there was a striking difference in attitude between the LA Police Chief on consecutive days. The first day he admitted his officers were overwhelmed and likely could have used the federal help from the National Guard.
The next day, with Democratic Mayor Karen Bass standing beside him, he read (note, read versus speaking off the cuff) a carefully worded statement that no doubt came straight from Bass’ office. It claimed the local authorities could handle the situation and the feds could go home. Viewing footage of the event, you have a riot with some peaceful protest around the edges.
Bass, who was on an African junket when LA burned in the January wildfires, then told the feds to quit their enforcement activities. In other words, leave all of the illegal aliens, violent history or not, alone. That’s not a position that will serve her or her fellow Democrats well—it’s the single issue that President Trump polls the best. Finally on Monday, four days after the riots began, she established a curfew—an action she should have taken after the first night.
And, of course, His Highness Gavin Newsom had to chime in and war verbally with the president claiming his actions were autocratic. Sort of like the pot calling the kettle black given Newsom’s behavior during the lockdown.
Some good news out of the South Bay that the governing body for the final extension of BART by a tunnel under San Jose—they have abandoned negotiations with the existing contractors and are seeking another option to dig the tunnel. They need to shed $1.2 billion from the costs to receive a $5,1 billion grant from the feds. Here’s hoping that Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy’s team will demand a cost-benefit analysis on the entire final stage of the project instead of rubber stamping it as the Biden Administration was wont to do given the president’s love of trains.
Stanford Health Care in Pleasanton is as good as it gets.
Stanford Health Care is continuously improving, upgrading.
The problem – PARKING – there is no patient parking.
Stanford has to get after this lack of parking.