Downtown Richmond, Richmond, California
 Phase I as seen from Macdonald Avenue. |
Downtown Richmond is the old center of Richmond, California. The area is roughly bordered by 6th street to the west, 23rd Street to the east, Barrett Avenue to the north, and Macdonald Avenue to the south. The area once featured major department stores and other chains such as J.C. Penney, S. H. Kress & Co., and Sears before Hilltop Mall was built in the 1970s.The area is currently undergoing a revitalization effort by the city, which has included the Richmond Shopping Center anchored by a supermarket. The Richmond Transit Village—coined Metro Walk by the developers, the Olson Company—has also been built, along with remodeling of the Richmond BART and Amtrak station and a bus transit center served by AC Transit and Golden Gate Transit. A Kaiser Permanente hospital and a Social Security Administration processing center provide for a majority of the jobs in the area.
Metro Walk is a transit village in downtown Richmond. a half-built sixteen-acre planned community. The first phase was built on an empty lot and parking lot on the west side of Richmond BART and Amtrak/Capitol Corridor station. This has 132 homes on an eight-acre site with a housing density of 16.5 du/acre.
The floorplans of these cluster homes are from 1,395 to 1,615 square feet (130–150 m²). When sales began in 2004 the homes sold from the $300,000 range and up. Three models were built in phase I: bungalows, villas, and career homes. The later come with a ground floor space that can easily be used as a business or live/work space and came with a business license from the city to do so. The monthly community fee was reported as $200 in 2004.
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