The Concord City Council is set to hear preliminary plans for a major redevelopment of the 59-acre former Coast Guard housing site at 3295 Haleakala Street, marking an important step in the future of one of the city’s largest vacant parcels.
At its upcoming meeting, council members will consider an informational application from developers seeking preliminary feedback on proposed plans to transform the site – long known as Victory Village and Quinault Village – into a residential community with an estimated 800-900 primary dwelling units.
The preliminary application, prepared by the city’s planning staff, does not seek project approval but rather provides an early public forum for key stakeholders – including council members and community members – to review the concept and offer guidance before any formal entitlement applications are filed. Members of the public will be allowed to speak on the matter for up to three minutes each, per city council procedures.
The proposed redevelopment encompasses the site of two former military housing villages that have sat largely vacant for years, with earlier planning efforts envisioning both renovation of existing units and construction of new multifamily housing. Previous reporting on related proposals detailed a plan for up to 714 units, including rehabilitated apartments and new townhomes – but recent indications from planning documents and developer interest suggest the current vision may expand the scope further.
Located near the North Concord BART Station, the property’s redevelopment aligns with the City’s broader housing and land-use goals, including increasing residential density and maximizing underused sites to help meet state housing targets and community needs.
City planners estimate the full project — from zoning and environmental review to construction — will span multiple years, requiring subsequent council approvals, environmental analysis under CEQA, and community engagement before any building can begin.
The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 24, 2026, starting at 6:30 PM. The meeting will take place at the City Council Chambers, 1950 Parkside Drive, Concord, CA 94519.
who is the builder? Hopefully not Seeno.
The developers are Eddie Haddad and Georges Maalouf who are not affiliated with Seeno
John Hemm and Winston,
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The owners will be hiring a California developer to build out the property.
Glad to see something happening. It’s better than it sitting empty.
We don’t yet know if it’s anyhere near better.
i like this idea better than the naval weapons station development. i was driving down olivera rd and noticed a bunch of plants in the center divide on the freeway overpass and i thought to myself “what a waste of money”.
Did you like the weeds better?
That seems like the most logical place to start with the naval base redevelopment, whichever developer got in there was smart. You might be wondering where the power and water will come from when we have rolling blackouts and have to ration water, or where the kids will go to school or how our highways and BART will handle the increased traffic – it doesn’t matter, new high density housing at all costs!
The redevelopment of the Coast Guard site as shown was very much not what the city council wanted. They tried to get the CG to give it to a well connected housing “nonprofit” like Bridge Housing to turn the whole thing into subsidized apartments.
The city had both non-profits, including Bridge Housing, and market rate developers consider plans for for the property back in 2014. The city committed to at least 25% of housing units to be “affordable housing.”
My native language is also Sar-Chasm 🙂
As long as the housing is equitable. Is this considered a high resource area or since it won’t change an existing single family home area, it’s not. They need to really drop some paperwork barriers to get these things going. “… from zoning and environmental review to construction — will span multiple years, requiring subsequent council approvals, environmental analysis under CEQA, and community engagement before any building can begin. ” It’s a lot with some vacant housing on it, what takes so long. All these political types constantly saying we need more housing but they can’t get the ‘paperwork’ done to facilitate any building. Geez.
The “high resource areas” are located in rge southeast part of Concord. It’s also possible to build a high-density single family home neighborhood, it doesn’t have to be highrise housing, similar to the development that was built near Terminal Center.
It’ll never happen, and most of know the reason why that that property has been sitting there vacant for 30 plus years and it will continue sitting there vacant for another 30 years.
What is the reason that it has it been sitting there vacant? The Coast Guard stopped using the Quinalt Village and Victory Village housing in 2014. Victory Village is only 37 years old, so it doesn’t make much sense “that that property has been sitting there vacant for 30 plus years.” The Army has already torn down the military housing that was on the MOTCO base off of Kenne Boulevard and built new structures.
There were quite a few properties within those boundaries that have been sitting with asbestos problems for exactly as long as I have said. Nothing will ever go in there I can’t believe how many people actually think it will happen someday.
So you believe that anything built prior to 1978, and in some cases even later, can never be torn down because they contain asbestos. Good one! You should take a good long look around Concord, Contra Costa County, California, and the rest of the U.S. and study all of the structures that have and do contain asbestos that have been torn down, are being torn down, and will be torn down. How was it that the Army was able to tear down the housing containing asbestos on the MOTCO base, formerly the CNWS? Given that the then CNWS began mothballing operations on the inland portion of the CNWS in the 1990s, which led to a reduction in personnel stationed at the base, it also makes perfect sense that all of the housing wasn’t being used before it was transferred to the coast guard.
Also, nice changing of your story. First you claimed, “It’ll never happen, and most of know the reason why that that property has been sitting there vacant for 30 plus years and it will continue sitting there vacant for another 30 years.” Then you claimed, “There were quite a few properties within those boundaries that have been sitting with asbestos problems for exactly as long as I have said. Nothing will ever go in there I can’t believe how many people actually think it will happen someday.” In your comment below you claimed, “And if you dig back further than 2007 you’ll see half of it was vacant long before that date with asbestos problems and people getting sick.” Which is it with your ever changing story, is it the ENTIRE property has been vacant, HALF of the property has been vacant, or QUITE A FEW units on the property have been vacant, for 30 plus years????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
You can add these figures to your less than stellar research the Navy transferred it to the coast guard in 2007 where it’ sat vacant for 10 plus years not since 2014. And if you dig further back than 2007 you’ll see half of it was vacant long before that date with asbestos problems and people getting sick.
I suggest that you speak with representatives of the federal government, as it was those representatives who told us the site was used for housing by the coast guard into 2014.
Traffic will be a nightmare for surrounding roads.
Yes, East Olivera Road and Olivera Road will be a nightmare with 2,000 extra cars traveling on them multiple times a day.
I’m a man of few words, in this case 4
Asbestos
Follow the money
They shouldn’t be able to add more housing until they can prove that they can maintain the streets already
Schmee,
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That’s why the city took out a loan against future sales tax revenue to repave the roads.
And they’ll use it for gender studies……
First of all, that area that is too close to the river systems will flood eventually. It is referred to as inland estuary. They can just rebuild the army barracks. The inland FOG banks will make it treacherous to drive autos and pedestrian traffic too. A Great safety concern; hazardous to say the least. The Sun is extremely bright here in Sun Valley. I cannot see anyone who would want to drive or navigate around when the sunlight beams in the eyes. There is also a lot of untamed wildlife that crosses that same zone.
If the government wants everything redeveloped, then the government can foot the entire bill. No new taxes and certainly no new surprises.
Oh, and one other 3-minute allotment footnote here. Will the proposed parking slots be barely wide enough to park a bicycle?
The GSA sold the Coast Guard property to Las Vegas developers 5 years ago.
That whole area has massive ground pollution issues. Years of dumping oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, acid and other seriously dangerous stuff would take years and billions of $$. We won’t see it cleaned up for years!
The government has been cleaning up the former CNWS for a decade already. The government sold the Coast Guard housing property as clean property.
They’ve been talking about building in this area for decades. Chances are they’ll discuss it for 5 more years before putting it out for bid.