With Congressman Darrell Issa stepping down, California's 48th Congressional District race sees Jim Desmond and Marni von Wilpert advancing to Nov. election.
Plans to transform a historic building on Shrewsbury's waterfront with a new restaurant and apartments have been approved.
The factory closed in the 1990s and the buildings were left to rot amid woodland.
Two Republican incumbents, Representatives Young Kim and Ken Calvert, were drawn into the same district by Proposition 50.