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Project has now been shelved with the 17-acre site to be used for sports fields and parkland instead. 925.939.3333 2791 North Main St., Walnut Creek (SJAM), a Sharks subsidiary, is www.lawrencevolvo.com Senior housing, gone, along with his legal sidekick and fellow ice rink promoter Pat Get All of This Plus More Great Offers from Volvo! but no Sharks Kernan, who moved out of town after his term of office as a Pleasan- on Staples Ranch ton school board member expired. Despite many hours of speeches, groundbreaking celebration presentations, public hearings and is scheduled Oct. 24 for slide shows to city and civic orga- A Stoneridge Creek, an 800- nizations, Gralnek’s enthusiasm for unit retirement community on Sta- the 7-acre, two-story ice rink was ples Ranch at the southwest corner not shared by everyone. As some HAVING A BABY of I-580 and El Charro Road in on the City Council and City Man- Pleasanton’s far eastern corner. ager Nelson Fialho pressed harder But after that, the 124-acre Staples for financial information, Gralnek Ranch will look pretty much the became harder to find. The city IN 2011 same as it always has, a mostly could never quite get the Sharks to undeveloped field sandwiched be- the table in committing to a ground tween Pleasanton neighborhoods lease that would also require long- FREE EDUCATION SEMINAR and the new bustling business term operating guarantees and centers in Livermore and Dublin. money up-front for the rest of the A new Target Superstore opens 17-acre sports and public park the Presented by: today across 580 in Dublin, Tar- Sharks had agreed to build. get’s second store there although Certainly the economy put John Nunes, MD a few years ago it had considered brakes on expansion plans by the ValleyCare Medical Foundation OB/GYN Staples Ranch or even more central Sharks’ SJAM, which continues to Christi Klimisch, MD sites in Pleasanton. Along with the operate public ice arenas in San ValleyCare Medical Foundation Pediatrician Stoneridge Creek retirement com- Jose, Fremont and Oakland. But munity, construction also is under an even greater concern was that Date: October 19, 2011 way across El Charro in Livermore, the ice arena could become a white where Paragon Outlet Mall plans to elephant if SJAM ever encountered Time: 7:00 PM open 120-160 upscale retail stores financial difficulties, which it now by Thanksgiving 2012. has. It’s to the city’s (and taxpay- Location: ValleyCare Medical Plaza Except for Stoneridge Creek, ers’) good fortune that officials were 5725 W. Las Positas Blvd however, Staples Ranch remains cautious before the first shovelful 2nd floor Conference Room desolate with only some grading of dirt was lifted on Staples. The Pleasanton under way to extend Stoneridge 7-acre site is still earmarked for the two blocks west of hospital Drive to El Charro. Gone is the ice arena, but with no movement 37-acre auto mall that was going by the Sharks, it will likely be con- Please join us for a free education to turn Pleasanton’s eastern border solidated into the full 17 acres of seminar where ValleyCare physicians into a prosperous center for luxury sports fields and parkland as was will discuss important issues regarding car sales, along with the high-end originally planned. having a baby in 2011. Learn more sales taxes that would go with The rests of Staples is still master them. Gone, too, is a 7-acre retail planned for an auto mall and retail about fetal monitoring, labor anesthesia, center to serve the grocery store center. Target’s no longer an option and role of the labor coach. Your questions and service business needs of those but there are other large retail stores about your baby’s needs and what you living nearby. Now also gone, ap- that could fit there, conveniently lo- can expect in his/her first few days of parently, are plans for a multi-mil- cated at the new El Charro and Isa- life will also be discussed. lion-dollar, four-rink ice center that bel Road interchanges at I-580. One a subsidiary of the San Jose Sharks interested retailer might be Home We invite you to register for this seminar by planned to build on Staples. Don Depot, which lost an earlier bid to calling the ValleyCare Health Information Gralnek, a vice president and gen- build a second, larger, upscale store line at 1-800-719-9111 or visit our website at eral counsel of Silicon Valley Sports on the still-empty property at Bernal & Entertainment LLC, who repre- Avenue and Stanley Boulevard. Or, a www.valleycare.com/educationseminars. sented San Jose Arena Management Wal-Mart Superstore? N About the Cover Foothill High grad Valerie Arioto at bat for Team USA at the World Cup of Soft- ball VI. An injury last year while playing for UC Berkeley gave Arioto the chance to study team dynamics from the sidelines and improve as a player. Photo by Murray Johnson ASA/USA Softball. Design by Lili Cao. Serving the Tri-Valley with Medical Facilities in Livermore and Pleasanton. Vol. XII, Number 39 Pleasanton WeeklyÊUÊOctober 7, 2011ÊU Page 3 Streetwise ASKED AROUND TOWN What is your favorite Bay Area destination? Bud Mayes Campus supervisor I like to go to Napa to go wine tasting.