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🌱 Patch AM: 'Most Significant' Downtown Napa Investment Pushes Forward

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Good day Napa! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Massive First Street Napa project reshapes downtown with hotel and paseo
  • How many Flock cameras are watching Napa drivers right now?
  • See how much a Piedmont Avenue home just sold for

Also on today's calendar: Honor Strings and 5 more events.

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Weather forecast:

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  • Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 65 and low of 35 degrees.
  • Monday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 68, low: 36.
  • Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 67 and low of 38 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 'Most Significant' Downtown Napa Investment Pushes Forward (patch.com) — Downtown Napa is seeing its biggest investment in more than a decade as the next phase of the First Street Napa project moves into full construction. A new 161-room hotel, 78 condominiums, and a landscaped Brown Street paseo are expected to boost foot traffic, create hospitality jobs, and generate millions in tax revenue while reconnecting key downtown destinations. Longtime restaurant Don Perico will return in a custom-designed space as part of the redevelopment.
   

2. Public safety must-have or threat to civil liberties? Debate over Flock license plate reader cameras has taken hold in North Bay (pressdemocrat.com) — Napa County Sheriff’s Office and Napa Police Department now operate 30 Flock license plate reader cameras combined, with data kept for 30 days and city costs around $51,000 a year. The story weighs crime-fighting benefits against serious privacy and civil-liberties concerns raised across the North Bay and statewide, as lawsuits and state scrutiny grow.
   

3. Single-family home sells for $645,000 in Napa (pressdemocrat.com) — A single-family home on Piedmont Avenue in Napa sold on December 29 for $645,000, highlighting current neighborhood prices. The article also compares three other recent Napa home sales, giving residents a snapshot of local values, square footage, and features like garages and fireplaces.
   

4. North Bay unemployment rates in November reveal higher rates than a year earlier (pressdemocrat.com) — Napa County’s unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% in November, slightly higher than 4% a year earlier, according to new state data. The report also details which local job sectors added positions and which lost ground, while comparing Napa’s numbers with neighboring North Bay counties and the statewide picture.
   

5. TV Star Suspected Of On-Set Child Sex Abuse 'Party Mom' On Trial: CA News (patch.com) — One of this week’s statewide headlines involves a Napa County sheriff’s deputy accused of secretly recording and sharing intimate images of his estranged wife, according to prosecutors. The broader roundup highlights other major California crime and community stories, but Napa residents may be most interested in the local law enforcement case now drawing attention.
   

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