Bay Area if our base is a race track and super markets and Target, it
raises the question is that the best we can do? Albany could be an
exciting place for a business incubator? Albany could be home to web
companies like Google who is looking for another East Bay office
location? What about green firms, nanotech, medical and the health
fields and more bioscience companies? Where are they?
Will we ever be home to a big hitter in these arenas? What community
will get them when we miss out? Why? Apple's headquarters did
wonders for Cupertino's public schools. With the home owners already
financially stressed do we really want to go to people who own 2-3
bedroom 1 bath houses to pay for community common resources? We don't
have to house the manufacturing for a large renewable energy company,
we could attract their headquarters, couldn't we? Best,
Perry
On Jan 2, 2008 11:44 AM, Preston Jordan <PDJordan@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> Perry-
>
> Thank you for posting these numbers, but it is unclear to me what they are.
> The heading over these numbers in what appears to be the source document
> (http://www.acgov.org/treasurer/Top_10_Taxpayer_unsecured_new.pdf) is
> "assessed value." The heading over the next column is "tax due amount," and
> would therefore appear to be the actual taxes paid. These values are 1.3% of
> the values in the "assessed value" column.
>
> While this appears straightforward, in strains credulity. The assessed
> value of Target's property is only $2.6M? Lower than the assessed value of
> Quintara, which I didn't even know existed in Albany and for which I can
> only find an address of 609 San Pablo, hardly a large property. Is Pacific
> Racing equivalent to Golden Gate Fields, or only a portion of it as I
> believe GGT consists of several parcels held by different holding companies.
> I suspect the Proposition 13 loophole exploited by
> commercial enterprises to forever avoid property revaluation has something
> to do with these against common sense property valuations.
>
> I trolled the Alameda County Treasurer's web site to try to gain more
> metadata on these values, but it was not forthcoming. If you can further
> elucidate them, I would appreciate it.
>
> Preston Jordan
>
>
>
> Perry Gregg wrote:
>
> > Last year's County top 10 Albany taxpayers:
> >
> > Pacific Racing 4,384,820
> > Quintara Biosciences 3,510,855
> > Target 2,654,219
> > Fidelity Asset Mgmt (Safeway) 2,404,294
> > Comcast Corp 1,210,000
> > Comcast of East San Fernando Valley 915,721
> > Petsmart 432,399
> > Andronicos 357,675
> > Albany Ford 323,083
> > Longs 285,998
> >
> > In recent prior years various real estate property firms were on this
> list.
> >
> > Perry
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