The new Walgreens building in Brunswick Basin is in escrow, a lawyer for the buyer said last night at a Grass Valley City Council meeting.
The building had been listed for $13.2 million, as I reported previously.
The Council rejected a request to remove a condition requiring an easement within the Walgreen’s parking lot to allow for potential vehicle access to the CHP/DMV site located to the north, citing concerns about long-term use of the properties — not just a single real-estate transaction (AKA “city planning”).
LUMBERJACK’S REDUX?
“Open and close the public hearing, find that the approved condition
cannot be fully implemented, and delete condition of approval number 40,” is what city’s new Community Development director Tom Last recommended.
Last, you might recall, also supported an 11-foot lumberjack statue in Brunswick Basin — a recommendation that also was rejected.
It will be interesting to see how Grass Valley sets community development policy under Last, the longtime city planner who just got promoted into a vacant spot.
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Why would anyone want the Walgreen’s site to have to be “forced” to provide parking for the DMV site?
This is exactly what will happen as soon as you open up that access.
It’s not for or about a current connection between Walgreen’s and the DMV site. As discussed by the Council last night it’s about having/retaining the connection option for the future, when the DMV site will be razed and redeveloped some day. Grass Valley development standards call for reducing the number of driveway connections to main roads when the opportunity allows. Access into Walgreen’s and the DMV site is a problem due to the interchange and the Sutton/Brunswick intersection and the shoping center traffic.
What a surprise. It seems everything about the development of the Walgreen’s building has been a nightmare.
The City and the State dropped the ball on this site. I see it being a “cluster” for many years to come.