Contra Costa Centre

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

While at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) conference held in San Francisco in November 2009, ULI’s Transit Oriented Development Council studied Contra Costa Centre.  This is a transit oriented development that is under construction adjacent to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Pleasant Hill, California—about 25 miles east of downtown San Francisco. This project has been in the works for decades. The station was constructed in 1970 and was the locus of the test track for the BART system which opened for service in 1972. The briefers included: Steve Wilson, Senior Vice President of AvalonBay Communities, Inc.; Jeff White, Senior Development Director at AvalonBay Communities; John Rennels, Principal Property Development Officer for Bay Area Rapid Transit, and; Jim Kennedy, Redevelopment Director for the Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development.  Thanks to them for their hospitality and candid presentation.

Photos from the briefing and site tour are posted at:

 http://urbanexus.smugmug.com/Architecture/Contra-Costa-Centre/10441826_vB92F#724319292_MvzqT

Here are several PDF files containing background information and briefing materials:

Contra Costa Centre - 2008-06-21 - Building a Heart (P&P - James Kennedy)

Contra Costa Centre - 2008-07-15 - Press release

Contra Costa Centre - 2009-03-01 - Fact Sheet

Contra Costa Centre - 2009-11-04 - BART information

Contra Costa Centre - 2008-07-27 - Groundbreaking flyer

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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