Chase Hunter is the Alameda County reporter for the Bay Area News Group. Hunter grew up in the West Valley of Phoenix and moved to Sonoma County in 2021 where he reported for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on wildfires, crime, city government, agriculture, and the environment.
Transit-oriented development plans for Bayfair Center, a shopping mall at 15555 E. 14th St. in San Leandro, site concept. The death of the Bayfair Center mall in San Leandro came last month with a sheet of paper taped to its glass doors and a brief eulogy in bold typeface: “Bayfair Mall permanently closed.
But Bayfair has watched those stores close over the past decade—as did other once-popular Bay Area shopping centers, including the Hilltop Mall in Richmond and the Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino, which have closed as online retail grew to dominate the retail marketplace, making “Looking at as closing down a mall is not the right way to look at that property,” said Nancy Wallace, a UC Berkeley professor of real estate and sustainability.
“This is a huge effort to build a great deal of housing, including workforce housing. The core lab is part of the economic motivation for all of this,” Wallace said. “The fact that they have already redeveloped the Macy’s site with paying tenants and turned those empty comic book stores into high functioning tech space filled with Stanford and Berkeley PhDs is amazing.”
“We saw a chance to rezone and provide property to evolve away from strict mall uses,” Schultz said. “The Bayfair plan, in coordination with Alameda County, was really looking at how to build on this prime location next to BART and turn it into a mixed-use transit village.”showed the Bay Fair station was re-evaluated from a mid-term project to a short-term project, citing the Bay Fair station’s high rankings in development streamlining, market readiness for offices and development capacity.
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