Brendan Riley
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Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Vallejo’s historic home, in slow motion (opens the original)
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The city’s snail-pace process that will determine the fate of Vallejo’s historic, deteriorating Herbert House continues, with plans to update the value estimated in 2025 for the once-elegant home and its prime waterfront location. Vallejo also has started looking for property management and broker services to help assess city-owned properties — including the neglected, long-vacant Herbert House, a designated landmark – and decide what should be retained or declared surplus. The process, likely t
Solano Chronicles: Reliving Mare Island Naval Shipyard History (opens the original)
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With all the current buzz over the future of the Navy’s former Mare Island Shipyard, there’s no time like the present to relive the yard’s past. The upcoming Founder’s Day event on Mare Island will be a good opportunity for just that. The annual Mare Island Historic Park Foundation event, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13, will feature reenactments of events illustrating Mare Island’s legacy of building and repairing ships and submarines over 142 years, until the yard’s closure in 1996. In addition
Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Mare Island continues to seek investors (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles is published every other Sunday in the Vallejo Times-Herald. The developer now controlling Mare Island has hired a global real estate services firm to help find investors or tenants eager to revive shipbuilding on the former Navy yard – and be part of what’s termed the nation’s largest maritime industry mobilization since World War II. Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) announced that The Nimitz Group, in a business empire owned by billio
Solano Chronicles: Shipyard’s priceless Tiffany windows protected (opens the original)
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After years of talks with no results, the priceless Tiffany stained-glass windows in St. Peter’s Chapel, a national landmark at the former Mare Island Navy Shipyard, are finally getting protective glass to safeguard some significant local history. Installation of the thick, transparent glass began Tuesday, thanks to a joint effort by the City of Vallejo and the Mare Island Historic Park Foundation (MIHPF). City funds are covering the $43,570 cost. “I have lived across from the chapel and have be
Solano Chronicles: Stolen plaques replaced, but thefts continue (opens the original)
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A rash of thefts of historic plaques last spring in the Vallejo-Mare Island area has been followed by gradual memorial replacements – along with still more thievery. The new plaques include one honoring heroic World War II fighter pilot Grant Mahony and another honoring 50 African American sailors, known as the “Port Chicago 50,” who were among survivors of a World War II munitions explosion at Port Chicago. To prevent thieves from stealing the replacement plaques, they were made of materials ot
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