Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Morning News Round-Up -- 8.18.09: Tesla/ OTB/ Bay Meadows Trifecta Edition

Not a ton of stories today, but several updates on stories you have heard before...

Much to the dismay of the City of San Jose (and probably San Carlos as well), Tesla is moving its powertrain production facilities to Palo Alto. For a recap of Tesla's on-again/off-again love affair with every City in the Bay Area, check out Watch Dog Silicon Valley's Tesla Chronicles.

The OTB Battle rages on... another chapter in San Mateo County's quest to keep OTB out of San Francisco happened yesterday when the San Francisco folks yanked their application that was being considered by the California Horse Racing Board. Why did the San Francisco folks pull their application at the 11th hour: "business reasons"... yeah right. Anyway, the OTB Battle rages on...

In other race track news... As if you couldn't tell from driving by the eye-sore, we get this headline from the County Times: One year after Bay Meadows' closure, redevelopment of racetrack has been halted by economy.

You may have heard that the State of California is in a bit of a financial bind... now, fees are going up at local State parks. HMB Review has the rundown...

The aftermath of the averted BART strike will carry on for several days and/or weeks... riders were angry and didn't support the strike, etc., etc., etc.

"We didn’t know they were closing the store until we read about it in the Daily Journal," those are the words of Maurissa Heffran who owns the property formerly occupied by Starbucks at the Gateway Crossing in San Mateo. Starbucks pulled out of their lease, which was to run until 2017. We guess landlord/tenant relationships aren't what they used to be. (We feel you Maurissa, we don't really know anything until we read it in the Daily Journal either...)

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