Please Help Bring Ilene Home!
Ilene Misheloff has been missing for Twenty-Three Years!
Please join Ilene’s family and friends for a Candlelight Walk and Ecumenical Prayer Service
Monday
January 30, 2012
7:00 P.M.
The walk will start at Well’s Middle School (6800 Penn Dr.)
And proceed to Saint Raymond’s Church
(11555 Shannon Ave. Dublin, CA)
•Information Phone (925) 829-3629•
Web Site: www.find-ilene.org
Please Pray for Ilene’s Safe Return
By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times.
January 12, 2012
Ross Stores said Thursday it will shift its headquarters to Dublin by mid-2014, departing Pleasanton, where it has maintained its base for seven years.
The fast-growing retailer has purchased a three-building complex called Emerald Point in Dublin, roughly doubling the space it now occupies. The complex, on Hacienda Drive a short distance north of Interstate 580, has a total of 412,000 square feet.
“This move will accommodate the long-term growth of our corporate office staff for the foreseeable future,” said Ross spokeswoman Bobbi Chaville.
Ross bought the buildings in separate transactions Monday, Alameda County property records show. The transactions were arranged through commercial realty brokerages Jones Lang LaSalle and Cornish & Carey Newmark Knight Frank.
“It’s a big win for Dublin,” said Larry Easterly, a senior vice president with Grubb & Ellis.
But Ross Stores’ pending departure poses a leasing challenge for the owners of California Center, its current home. That office complex, located in Hacienda Business Park, could become mostly empty if tenants aren’t found before Ross exits.
The buildings at Emerald Point could potentially accommodate 1,650 to 2,050 employees. Ross wouldn’t discuss the company’s current head count at its Pleasanton offices.
It bought two of its new buildings from San Jose-based Cisco Systems and the other from Atlanta-based Wells Real Estate Investment Trust — which has no connection to banking giant Wells Fargo. Ross declined to say how much it paid for the three buildings, but persons familiar with the transactions estimated that the cost was $68 million.
“The city is absolutely thrilled to see Ross Stores move their corporate headquarters to Dublin,” said Linda Maurer, an economic development official for the city. “And we’re happy they kept those jobs in the Tri-Valley.”
Local merchants, including stores and restaurants, should benefit from the additional employees in the area.
Two of the buildings, with a combined 218,000 square feet, had been bought by Cisco Systems in 2001, at the tail end of the dot-com boom. At that point, Cisco saw them as a way to create an outpost outside of Silicon Valley, and closer to where many tech engineers live. Cisco, though, never occupied the buildings, which remained shells for a decade.
The third building, with 195,000 square feet, is partly occupied by Franklin Resources and AT&T.
Ross has been a consistent bright spot among retailers, even during the economic slump of recent years. During the 12 months that ended in October 2011, it earned $627 million on sales of $8.36 billion. Over the same period a year earlier, it earned $535.9 million on sales of $7.7 billion.
“We were pleased that we were able to find spaces that are close to our existing offices,” Chaville said. “It should be a seamless move for our associates and corporate office staff.”
Contact George Avalos at 925-977-8477. Follow him at Twitter.com/george_avalos.
Dublin, Calif., December 13, 2011 – Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is hosting a community meeting on Saturday, December 17 at the Office of Emergency Services, 4985 Broder Road in Dublin starting at 11 a.m. . The purpose of the community meeting is to provide an opportunity for area residents to share their concerns about the recent “Mythbusters” cannonball incident with the Sheriff’s Office, who oversees the Training Center in Dublin.
Sheriff’s Office representatives will be joined by representatives from Dublin Police Services, as well as the City of Dublin.
Sheriff Ahern has suspended all non-emergency operations at the Training Center pending the completion of the investigation into the errant cannonball incident. The Sheriff’s Office and Mythbusters are cooperating with the investigation being led by Dublin Police Services.
