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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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