Redevelopment & Revitalization Vignettes
This series of vignettes offer snapshots of California communities before and after redevelopment or revitalization projects.
Integrating affordable housing, mixed-use and transit access was often a key part of the revitalization projects.
The Community Before
Foster City had a rundown shopping center with an abandoned gas station. The gas station was unused for some fifteen years and two of the remaining nine shopping center tenants had abandoned their sites.
e Bay Area’s industrial belt, the waterfront
site in the City of Hercules had been an active powder company
that manufactured dynamite.
small parking lot owned by the agency since 1975.
om long-term deferred maintenance and
overcrowding.
The area that is now Cornerstone Village was
a blighted and densely populated apartment building, initially
constructed for off-base Marine Corps housing in the late 1950’s.
downtown area of Santa Cruz was
transformed from the City’s commercial core to a series of
destroyed and severely damaged buildings.
broken windows, graffiti, trash,
broken down cars, and buildings without property management.
Police and code complaints regarding deteriorating conditions and
illegal activities proliferated.
