Completed TOD projects

Together with BART's community and developer partners, the transit-oriented development program has completed developments at sixteen stations, totaling 4,140 housing units and 865,000 square feet of commercial space. Additional developments are in construction and planning/predevelopment stages and are described on the Upcoming TOD Projects page.

Balboa Park

  • BART has partnered with the San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office on Housing to construct a 131-unit affordable housing development aimed at very low, low, and moderate income families.  The project is also delivering a new BART plaza.
  • This project was developed jointly by Related California and Mission Housing Development Corporation.
  • Learn more at the project's website. 

Walnut Creek (partial)

  • Once fully complete, the Walnut Creek Transit Village, by Walnut Creek Transit Lifestyle Associates (WCTLA),will consist of approximately 596 multi-family housing units (approximately $7 million will be paid in affordable housing in-lieu fees to the City at the time of building permit issuance), 27,000 square feet of retail space, a new privately-owned replacement parking garage for BART patrons, a new BART zone command police facility, and a new intermodal bus facility.  
  • Phase I (parking garage, intermodal bus facility, and BART zone command police facility) was completed in 2019.
  • Phase II, mixed-use development with 358 residential units and 14,000 square feet of retail was completed in 2022.
  • Learn more at the project's website.

Walnut Creek TOD

Image courtesy of WCTLA. 

Millbrae

Millbrae TOD

Image courtesy of Republic Urban Properties

  • Republic Urban and Core Companies are completing the mixed-use development at Millbrae Station in late 2022/early 2023.
  • The project includes:
    • 80 housing units Veteran’s building
    • 320 housing units (including 20 affordable units)
    • 164-room hotel
    • 150k sq ft office
  • Learn more at the project's website. 

West Dublin/Pleasanton

  • Through BART’s first public/private partnership, BART was able to leverage over $26.5 million in private funding to complete the new West Dublin/Pleasanton Station and the two accompanying parking garages through a partnership with its private developers.
  • Connolly Station, the first phase of development on the Dublin side of the station, includes 309 apartments built and managed by Essex Properties. Future phases will include an upscale lifestyle hotel, a restaurant and conference facility in Dublin.
  • The Workday World Headquarters has opened at the West Dublin/Pleasanton Station in 2019. This project includes up to 430,000 square feet for office space and 2,500 square feet for a shared police facility between BART Police and City of Pleasanton Police.

Workday headquarters

Coliseum

  • UrbanCore completed construction of the Coliseum Transit Village in Spring 2019.
  • The project includes 110 rental units on the 1.32-acre parcel, with 50% (55 units) of those units designated as affordable at the 50%-60% area median income (AMI) level and 50% workforce at the 80%-120% AMI level.
  • Learn more at the project's website. 

South Hayward

Eden Housing

Photo courtesy of Eden Housing

  • The South Hayward BART TOD includes two development projects:  Alta Mira Senior and Family Apartments, 151 affordable units built and managed by Eden Housing, and Cadence, a 206 unit market rate apartment development built and managed by AMCAL.
  • Both developments broke ground in 2015 and were completed in 2017. This project included a close partnership with the City of Hayward, which provided BART's first on-street managed parking. 

San Leandro

  • BRIDGE Housing completed the first phase of its affordable housing development at the San Leandro BART Station in 2017. Known as Marea Alta, this phase includes 115 affordable rental apartments.
  • BRIDGE housing completed the second phase of development at the San Leandro BART station in 2019. La Vereda, as the project is known, consists of 85 units of affordable rental housing for seniors.  
  • Both phases are built over three stories of underground BART patron parking, and are constructed using innovative modular housing techniques. 

MacArthur

  • BART, the City of Oakland, MacArthur Transit Community Partners (MTCP) and other stakeholders partnered to assemble properties with BART's surface parking lot at the MacArthur BART Station, for a large scale, mixed-income development.
  • Upon its completion in in early 2021, this transit-oriented development included 877 high density residential units (146 affordable), over 35,000 square feet of retail space, a new 481 space BART parking garage, a 200+ space BART bike station, a renovated station plaza entrance and other improvements to the station on what was largely former BART surface parking for the station. 

MacArthur TOD, seen from MacArthur Station platform

  • The first phase included Mural, a 90-unit affordable housing development built by BRIDGE Housing, as well as a 481-space parking garage.
  • The following phase included improvements to the BART Station plaza entrance by MTCP (an affiliate of Bridge Housing), and 385 units on Parcels A and C by Hines Interests (completed late 2019 and early 2020).
  • The final residential phase is a 403 unit 24-story high-rise by Boston Properties on Parcel B completed in early 2021.

Richmond Phase I

  • BART has partnered with the City of Richmond to build the Richmond Transit Village, which presently includes 132 (50% affordable) new for-sale townhome units with a new plaza, paseo, and transit facility, and a 769-space parking structure.
  • The residential developer of the first phase was the Olson company.
  • The completion of the City’s Nevin Avenue Streetscape Project in 2018 has paved the way for the next phase of the Transit Village that will develop the former BART parking lot and adjacent City property on the east side of the station in Phase II, where 520 residential units are anticipated.

Ashby/Ed Roberts Campus 

  • BART and the City of Berkeley partnered to create the Ed Roberts Campus, an 80,000 square foot non-profit, universally designed, transit-oriented campus.
  • The Ed Roberts Campus houses offices of collaborating non-profit organizations as well as an array of disability-related services and programs, including fully accessible meeting rooms, a computer/media resource center, a fitness center, a cafe and a child development center. This campus provides centralized services to support independent living for people with disabilities.  
  • The TOD project included a restriped BART parking lot and a new direct entrance from the BART concourse with an elevator and staircase.

Ed Roberts Campus EntranceEd Roberts Campus Interior

Richmond TODRichmond Transit StationHayward City Hall and City Center TOD

Hayward

  • BART and the City of Hayward collaborated to reconfigure properties adjacent to the Hayward BART station to create a new, catalytic civic center mixed-use development.
  • The TOD included 170 townhome units, as well as a new award-winning City Hall and Civic Center, plaza, and Greyhound ticket facility.  It was completed in 1998.

Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre (partial)Pleasant Hill--Contra Costa Centre TOD

  • The Contra Costa Centre Transit Village, led by AvalonBay development team, is a large scale mixed-use multi-phase project.  
  • In 2008, the first phase of the development was complete, providing 422 rental housing units (20% affordable), 35,590 square feet of retail, a replacement parking garage, and a new intermodal hub.
  • In 2020, the second phase delivered an additional 200 units of market-rate rental housing and 2,300 square feet retail.  
  • The third and final phase on BART property is entitled as a 12-story, 290,000 square foot office building.

Fruitvale Village OverheadFruitvale Village TOD

Fruitvale Phase I 

  • The first phase of the Fruitvale Transit Village was completed in 2004. Considered to be one of the best examples of TOD in the nation, this development was led by the Spanish Speaking Unity Council (now known as the Unity Council), a community-based organization, in close partnership with the City of Oakland.
  • The project features 47 mixed-income housing units, 37,000 square feet of ground floor retail, the 27,000 square foot Arise Charter High School, and 71,000 square feet of public space including La Clinica de la Raza health clinic, a senior center, a Head Start preschool, and California's first Spanish-oriented public library.  
  • The project cost was $100 million and included a BART replacement parking garage.

Fruitvale Phase II

  • In the mid-1990s, Fruitvale Transit Village was planned as a multi-block development on BART property. In 2010, BART sold its surface parking lot between 35th and 37th Avenues to the Oakland Redevelopment Agency.
  • The City of Oakland worked with the Unity Council, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC), and BRIDGE Housing and completed construction on Casa Arabella (Phase IIA) in 2019 which includes 92 units of affordable housing and two units of market rate housing. 

The Unity Council and BRIDGE Housing partnered for Phase IIB, Casa Sueños. It provides 181 units of affordable housing including 46 supportive units and a 6,000 square foot space for a non-profit tenant.   
 

Castro Valley

Castro Valley TOD

  • BART partnered with BRIDGE housing in 1993 to build Strobridge Court Apartments, a $75 million project with 96 affordable units, along with the restoration of a historic Victorian, and a BART zone command police facility. This was BART's first TOD project.