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11/10/2009	Bay Bridge S-Curve Death Highlights Safety Concerns The Sacramento Bee Nov. 10--The dramatic fatal crash of a big rig Monday on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has spotlighted yet another safety concern on the troubled span.
10/26/2009	Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin Dies at 93 Marin Independent Journal Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who designed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C., Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Sonoma County's Sea Ranch and many other monuments and public spaces, died Sunday after a brief illness.
11/10/2009	Group planning push against I-5 expansion North County Times Nov. 10--A tiny but committed group of Del Mar residents is organizing against massive Interstate 5 expansion plans, saying the blueprints will create, not erase, Los Angeles-like gridlock along the San Diego County coastal freeway.
11/06/2009	All bids for Highway 76 widening come in low North County Times Nov. 6--In a statement about the strong competition for local road projects, all nine bids for the long-delayed widening of Highway 76 from Oceanside to Bonsall came in at least $1 million less than the project's estimated $75.8 million price tag.
11/06/2009	Fortune Data Centers Earns LEED Gold Certification From U.S. Green Building Council for Silicon Valley Facility PRNewswire SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortune Data Centers, which provides premium efficiency data centers, announced today that the company has earned the prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its San Jose facility.
11/08/2009	Projects making Lodians anxious: Work in Stockton stirs concern over status of greenbelt The Record Nov. 8--LODI -- If there is one thing many Lodians wear on their sleeves, it is the age-old anxiety over Stockton's slow urbanization north.
11/11/2009	Cleanup forges a future for Sacramento's old railyard shops The Sacramento Bee Nov. 11--Work has begun to transform Sacramento's downtown railyard shops -- the birthplace of the transcontinental railroad -- from worn remnants of the city's 19th-century industrial history into a 21st-century urban showplace.
11/03/2009	San Francisco's Three Emerging "Green" Hospitals to Be Topic of Panel Discussion at Greenbuild International Conference on Nov. 12 MARKETWIRE San Francisco is taking a giant step forward on the "green" healthcare scene with three distinct, environmentally sustainable hospitals.
10/23/2009	Construction Teams Picked to Build New Homes for Veterans Business Wire The Department of General Services and the California Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that Hensel Phelps Construction of San Jose and Costa Mesa-based Clark Design/Build of California have been selected to build two new Veterans Homes in Fresno and Redding, California beginning in April 2010.