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BRENTWOOD The Brentwood City Council unanimously approved the sale of 101 Sand Creek Road, the former site of the Los Medanos Brentwood campus, to Sand Creek Orthopedic Associates to develop a new orthopedic center that would see potential job opportunities brought to the city. The vote took place during the council’s July 26 meeting following a presentation by Josh Ewen, senior analyst with the city’s economic development department in which Ewen provided an overview of the city-owned property and how the sale would benefit Brentwood. According to Ewen, the roughly 30,000-square-foot building sits on a three-acre site
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Brentwood leaders have approved the sale of 101 Sand Creek Road.
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and has a fair market value of $1.6 million in its current state. It is part of the Brentwood Center shopping complex located off of Sand Creek Road, which contains six other independently-owned properties. Part of the appeal of this business center is
its proximity to a major intersection, Sand Creek Road and Brentwood Boulevard, that is already seeing other residential and commercial development, Ewen said. Sale of the building to Sand Creek Orthopedic Associates
is expected to close on Jan. 31, 2023. Sand Creek Orthopedic Associates is a subsidiary of the Walnut Creek-based medical group Golden State Orthopedic and Spine. see Center page 18
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REGIONAL City Council hopefuls in Brentwood and Oakley have until Aug. 12 to file papers for their candidacies. Approved candidates for both cities will appear on the General Election ballot on Nov. 8. This year’s city council elections will be district-based as
opposed to the at-large elections in previous years. Both cities approved district plans in the last year, based on 2020 Census population numbers. The data was used to determine appropriate district lines. This brings both elections in line with the California Voting Rights Act, which bans at-large election methods
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REGIONAL “[On] July 8th, 2017, I called [my girlfriend] and my mother from a bridge and said goodbye,” said Alicia Lopez, an Emergency Room nurse. “I sat down and called the suicide hotline, who called help for me. If not for that, I wouldn’t be here.” Lopez elected to use the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline because she says that police officers are not always trained to handle someone on a bridge, at their breaking point, and ready to jump. These centers know how to bring someone back to a sense of self that allows you a moment to take a breath, she said. “When you’re in that fleeting moment you just want everything to stop,” Lopez said. “When you’re talking to people trained to handle these situations, they use harmless language, they know how to help get you grounded in the moment.” If someone is having a suicidal, mental health and/or substance use crisis, they can now call or text 988 — the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – instead of 911, or start an online chat at 988lifeline.org/chat. When people call, text, or chat 988, they will be connected to trained counselors who are part of the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network, see 988 page 18
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