The City of Concord join Meta Housing Corporation to break ground on Blue Oak Square Apartments earlier this month.
Formerly known as “The Argent” (and located on the former Blockbuster site at 2400 Willow Pass Rd.), this project has been in the works for nearly a decade.
When completed, it will provide 181 units of affordable housing for individuals and families.
The new seven-story building will provide a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom units, as well as a variety of amenities, including a community room, short and long-term bicycle parking, and an outdoor open courtyard with recreational space.
photos: courtesy of the City of Concord
Beautiful!! But the problem is the traffic and crow Concord started little by little, so crazy
Agree – in no time the high rise high density housing and resulting traffic and lack of parking will look like downtown WC …. which more and more people are avoiding
There will be plenty of parking for residents and guests underground.
I don’t think we’ll be so lucky that it will look like Walnut Creek ….. perhaps Pittsburg or Antioch. More than likely, the Concord we all know and love, will just be a larger version of Monument Blvd.
ROBERT TAYLOR,
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Define “plenty” please.
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Cool. More people who will support local goods and services… and clog local streets and parking stalls.
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Is Concord ready to devolve into an urban oasis? With crime, degenerates, drug dealing, and the other social ills of denser urban housing?
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Here it comes!
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And no cops to handle all these additional dwellings. Good luck. Buckle up.
Too late to return my VHS movie to blockbuster?
be kind, rewind
On site Parking with at least 181 stalls? Condos with owners would be prefered over renters.
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Concur.
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Renters have no “skin in the game” and typically lack a sense of community.
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They’ll feel a sense of community when that spine twisting sound…. the scrape and screech of metal on metal…. on poorly maintained tracks. Bart trains will pass just feet away, over their bedrooms… I’m several blocks away from that Port Chicago line, and that first train breaking the night’s silence wakes me every morning screeeeeeeeeeeshh shew-shew-shew -sh….!
It’s highly unlikely, they will be bothered by train noise cents. At that point the trains are going slowly as they enter and leave the station. You’d be surprised what double pane windows can do to shut out noise.
I used to be able to hear the trains all the time at my brothers house, but since they got double pane windows and sliding doors, I don’t hear any BART trains anymore. Oh, by the way, trains will not be passing over the apartments.
Typically in units like these, there will be two and sometimes three spaces per unit and it will be underground.
Anyone know what’s being built on empty lot north of this project?
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ROBERT TAYLOR,
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You’re dreaming and you’re wrong!!! This high-density housing-project will average about 3/4 of a parking space per unit.
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The residents of these units will get much more noise from BART, as well as traffic, than you claim. Just because you claim you can’t hear a BART train pass by in a home with double pane windows doesn’t mean others in a home or these apartments won’t hear noise from passing BART trains or cars. I live in a home with insulted walls and double pane windows and hear jets, planes, helicopters, BART, cars,, and some people talking as they walk by on the sidewalk, day and night.
High density housing is working out so well over in antioch.
Pedestrian use of sidewalks/crosswalks will increase substantially with the completion of this and the Grant street projects. Improved street/landscape lighting and wide sidewalks will go along way to keep people safe from Clayton/Port Chicago/Willow Pass traffic.
BAGSFLYFREE,
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I can tell you that the sidewalks on the north and west sides of The Grant – North along Colfax Street and Concord Boulevard aren’t wide, but appear to be the standard width, and could be considered more dangerous considering the new style parkways that the law now requires.
I still have a card from that old Blockbuster
I’ve still mine as well
Peeps trying to sell them online as vintage…
anywhere from a few bucks to $7000 (i saw one for).
P.T. Barnum-ish for sure….. However,
I’ll tell my grandkids to take it to the Antique Roadshow after the year 2050.. Who knows???????
This is all part of the ABAG/MTC “Plan Bay Area/One Bay Area” from a decade ago that will put 22,000 people in high-rise high-density apartment-style housing-projects in downtown Concord. Be sure to thank your Concord City Councilmembers for the calamity coming to downtown Concord!!!
Why the city is so committed to concentrating welfare housing like these apartments which require you to be poor to live in them downtown is a mystery to me.
WINSTON,
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Unfortunately, it is an extremely rare occurrence for the Concord City Coucil to say “NO” to a developer. Concord City Councilmembers almost always say “YES” to developers because they fear the developers will leave for another city if they don’t give in to what the developers want. Concord City Councilmembers represent the interests of developers, they don’t represent the interests of Concord residents, citizens, and voters!!!
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When Concord Vice Mayor Edi Birsan gave his 45-minute “PRO-SEENO” speech last month he did say he prefers “URBAN CHAOS.” If he spoke the truth, then he should be living in and serving on the city council of an “URBAN CITY” and not trying to change a “SUBURBAN CITY,” like Concord, into the “CHAOTIC URBAN CITY” he desires by forcing it on Concord residents, citizens, and voters that don’t want it.
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If these high-rise high-density apartment-style housing-projects were on the ballot and required approval by Concord voters they wouldn’t be approved and built. Wouldn’t it be nice if our Concord City Councilmembers told us how existing Concord will benefit from all of these high-rise high-density apartment-style housing-projects!!!
They do say no to developers though. For example there was a developer who wanted to build apartments for people who aren’t wards of the state on the picket fence property downtown, but the developer wasn’t willing to guarantee that the work would go to union labor so they decided to keep it a trash vacant lot.
WINSTON,
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I did say “they almost always say YES.”
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That white picket fence property is also owned by the City of Concord, so the circumstances are a little different.
I just found Blockbuster popcorn in my couch and it was still good. Yum Yum
Give the teachers at Mt Diablo High School, and the personnel who work at the nearby John Muir medical center first shot at these.
Parking will be a big problem with only 136 on site car spaces for occupants of a 181 units. If this were a seniors only complex that would work, but the target market here is lower income people who need cars to get to work. They are not working from home, and they can’t afford to use Uber all the time.
When this was in planning I told staff/council I felt the limited parking will create overflow into the nearby city parking structure.