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RAILS-TO-TRAILS
An attorney in the Seattle office represented community activists that succeeded in a 10 year legal and political battle to convert an inactive rail line in the Seattle suburbs into a recreational trail. King County formally opened the “East Lake Sammamish Trail,” a 12-mile path that winds along the shore of a large lake east of Seattle in March 2006. For now, the trail consists of gravel suitable for mountain bikes and walking. When it is paved in a few years, the East Lake Sammamish Trail will complete a 50-mile continuous paved bicycle route from Seattle to the foothills of the Cascades.
RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS
Heller Ehrman represents the Friendship House Association of American Indians in the strategic planning and contract negotiation phases of a loan for the acquisition, development, and financing of an 80-person residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment facility for the Native American Community of San Francisco.
HOUSING RENOVATIONS FOR LOW-INCOME AND HOMELESS
Attorneys from Heller Ehrman counseled Compass Community Services in the negotiation, due diligence and closing of Compass' purchase of a run-down building in San Francisco's Tenderloin district for the development of an extensive childcare and social services center to serve the area's homeless and low-income communities. The firm also represents Compass in negotiations with HUD and the City of San Francisco for the financing of the project.
ASSISTING PEOPLE OF COLOR AGAINST AIDS NETWORK
Heller Ehrman attorneys from our Seattle office negotiated the Seattle headquarters lease for the People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN).
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK
Heller Ehrman has represented the United Indian Nations Community Development in a venture with an environmental consulting firm and a national real estate developer for development of a large-scale Eco-Industrial Park at the former Oakland Army Base, which will benefit local disadvantaged communities through job training, profit sharing with local organizations, and direct community hiring programs. This program is a template for the redevelopment of ex-federal urban properties in communities opposed to conventional industrial development.
REPRESENTING THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
In the Pacific Northwest, Heller helped The Nature Conservancy of Washington and the Willapa Bay Alliance negotiate and draft a lease of an old cannery facility that has since become the headquarters of the Willapa Bay Alliance, a non-profit group dedicated to the protection of a large marine estuary in Southwestern Washington.
PROTECTING LOW-INCOME TENANTS
Working with the Alameda County Community Legal Aid Society, the firm settled a claim in which a group of low-income tenants faced eviction solely because of their status as recipients of federal Section 8 housing subsidies.
