Avalaon Bay Apartments at Contra Costa Centre in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

This photo is of the main street of the Avalon Bay Apartment Community adjacent to the Pleasant Hill Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Pleasant Hill, CA about 27 miles east of downtown San Francisco.  The apartments are part of the 141-acre Contra Costa Centre transit-oriented development that has been underway for three decades. Based on information at the website for the apartments, it appears that the apartments have rented well.  Walking around the neighborhood it looks as though planners, or the developer, were too optimistic about retail demand as most of the retail space remains vacant fourteen months after the grand opening on October 2, 2010.

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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