Prior to the transfer, some of the facilities of the former base have been leased to private tenants and the City of Alameda.
Beginning in late 2006 the Mythbusters began to test various experiments on the former runway while in 2009, NBC's Trauma staged a plane crash.
There are land use constraints consisting of Tidelands Trust, soil and groundwater contamination,[3] and wildlife refuge buffer requirements.
Alameda Point Community Partners was selected over Catellus and Harbor Bay/Lennar, and signed a two-year exclusive negotiating contract as the property's master developer.
In August 2010, the Alameda City Council voted unanimously to terminate the exclusive negotiating agreement with SunCal and halt its proposal for the former Naval Air Station.
Various reasons were cited in the staff report leading up to the vote, including a developer- and city-initiated ballot measure related to the project that was defeated in February 2010 by a margin of 85%.