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City Selects Team for Downtown Redevelopment

SALINAS, CA-A partnership of Widewaters Group and Robert M. Leidig & Assoc. will negotiate for the right to master plan and redevelop an eight block chunk of this city's historic downtown business district.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on June 26, 2008

SALINAS, CA-The Salinas City Council this week selected a two-company team with which it will negotiate the redevelopment and master planning of an eight-block area of the city’s historic downtown business district. The city’s goal is to revitalize its government center and bring housing, services and entertainment to the adjacent land.

The development team it has selected to move forward with is a partnership of the Widewaters Group and Robert M. Leidig & Assoc. Widewaters is a Dewitt, NY-based development and management company that owns 3.6 million sf of retail in 47 shopping centers and 2,000 hotels rooms in 15 hotels, and has nine more properties under development. Robert M. Leidig is a Monterey County developer based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.

Known as the “salad bowl of the world” because it is surrounded by agriculture, Salinas is a city of 150,000 people located 60 miles south of the Silicon Valley and 15 miles from the Monterey Peninsula. The region has been labeled one of the most expensive places in the world to live because housing prices have risen far above the median income for the area, which is 60% Hispanic while at the same time becoming a bedroom community to the Silicon Valley and having little raw land available for new development.

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