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Article: Toyota driven from Alameda's Park Street
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 15, 2006
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ALAMEDA -- In the not-too-distant past, Alameda's Park Street had
four new-car dealerships. In three years, it may have just one.
The Island's Ron Goode Toyota will switch ownership hands at the
end of the year, following a recent deal to sell to a Southern
California company with plans to move off the Island, dealership
officials said.
A move from Alameda would be a major blow to the city's sales-
tax base and would leave questions about the future of the northern
portion of the Park Street corridor, near the Park Street Bridge.
Alan Wiese, the dealership's general manager, said he and others
had hoped to stay.
"I don't want to be too hard on Alameda or Park Street, but the
market in ...