North Berkeley BART TOD Development Plan

Berkeley CA | In Design 

Transforming eight acres of surface parking into a vibrant mixed-use community, the North Berkeley BART TOD Development Plan sensitively brings more than 700 diverse homes, neighborhood-serving mixed use, and extensive new public open space and pathways to a prime transit-oriented site.

This new transit-oriented development (TOD) aims to prioritize people over parking by reconnecting residents with the surrounding neighborhood and the local BART station. The high-density, mixed-income plan addresses a four-block site—the former BART surface parking lot—bounded by Sacramento, Virginia, Delaware, and Acton Streets in North Berkeley.

Developed with extensive community input, the plan establishes a “Distinctly Berkeley” identity through responsive massing, materials, art, and spaces designed for rest, social interaction, and personal expression.

The Plan includes 739 new homes across 13 diverse buildings, centered on a park-style landscaped green space that reconnects the Ohlone Greenway, a 4.5-mile urban bicycle and pedestrian pathway and adds more than 50,000sf of public open space. Fully half of the proposed homes are affordable homes, with permanently supportive homes for formerly unhoused families planned by Insight Housing. The proposed site concept also includes a childcare center, neighborhood-serving retail space, and a bicycle station. 

The collaborative development team—North Berkeley Housing Partners (NBHP), led by BRIDGE Housing—includes affordable developers East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) and Insight Housing as well as market-rate developer AvalonBay Communities. 

DBA is the lead architect and Mater Planner guiding a design team that includes landscape architect EinwillerKuehl as the Public Realm Master Planner and Yes Duffy Architects as Associate Architect. DBA led this team and this project through a comprehensive public community engagement process to achieve a final plan. 


Project Details


Project Number
22233

Address

1750 Sacramento Street
Berkeley, CA
United States



Status
In Design

Number of Units
Studio
216
1 Bedroom
225
2 Bedroom
217
3 Bedroom
81

Total 739

Density Ratios
Project
871,725 sf
Site
343,423 sf
Acres
7.88
Units per Acre
94

Parking
Parking Spots
298
Bicycle Parking
764

Recognition



Team


Lead Developer
BRIDGE Housing
Co-Developer
EBALDC
Co-Developer
Insight Housing
Co-Developer
Avalon Bay
Architect
David Baker Architects
Associate Architect
Yes Community Architects
Public Realm Master Planner
EinwillerKuehl
Structural Engineer
Tipping Structural Engineers
Civil Engineer
Lotus Water

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