Overview
- The Department of Veterans Affairs canceled the decades-old Alameda Point project after a site review found environmental contamination at the former naval air station.
- VA officials say they are developing a community-based outpatient clinic in Oakland, noting veterans currently receive care at ten Bay Area sites.
- Local leaders and veterans rallied on Dec. 15 to condemn the cancellation and urged the VA to restore roughly $390–395 million in funding tied to the Alameda build.
- The shelved plan called for a 158,000-square-foot outpatient clinic and a columbarium intended to serve the region’s large veteran population.
- Members of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Lateefa Simon, along with both U.S. senators from California, sent a Dec. 10 letter to VA Secretary Douglas Collins seeking details behind the decision.