Like most Alameda city officials, Abby Thorne-Lyman, the city’s point person for developing Alameda Point, the former Naval Air Station Alameda on the island city’s West End, was caught completely off-guard by a recent Silicon Valley group’s announcement that it plans for part of the area to become a utopian artificial intelligence “tech city.”

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“I am pretty stunned,” said Thorne-Lyman, who heads the city of Alameda’s Base Reuse and Economic Development Department, which manages Alameda Point’s redevelopment. “I guess it was a little hard to believe as a concept because we understand all of the constraints and the visions for that space as being a designated wildlife area. I don’t know what more to say. I mean it’s sort of out-of-the-blue.”

In a statement complete with a

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