Rite Aid Site Solution

The Rite Aid building was appropriate for a pharmacy, drug store, and market. Anything else would promote an eye sore. Now, consider what happened to the one story business building that was in Hayward on the corner of 2nd and C Street. For some time it struggled to have tenants. After a considerable amount of time with no real activity within that building, it was knocked down. Now in its place is a 5 story building. An internet search identifies the building as the project, called Pimental Place, being built on the corner of 2nd and C Streets by non-profit housing developer EAH Inc., of San Rafael, CA. So the solution for the Rite Aid site is to find a developer willing to remove the building and then provide a housing development. Perhaps the MAC people can generate interest in something similar to the Pimental Place, and perhaps some government-type representatives of Castro Valley can champion such a development. Besides the State of California Department of Housing and Community has tons of our money to let for such a project.

–Conrad Wilgus, Castro Valley