- The Bay Area city of Concord, California, wants to turn a shuttered Navy weapons station into a community with 13,000 homes.
- The land is scattered with ammunition bunkers. Most of them would get torn down, but a few could be converted into bars or cafés.
- The site would also need to be cleaned up, since Navy activities left contaminants in the soil and groundwater.
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San Francisco's housing shortage has gotten so dire that developers are increasingly eyeing old military sites.
For the last several years, the development company Lennar has been building a 12,000-home community at the Hunters Point Shipyard, the former site of a top-secret nuclear-testing facility operated by the US Navy. Across the bay, Lennar is also participating in a joint venture to add 8,000 residential units to Treasure Island, another former Naval base.
Now the company has set its sights on a naval weapons station in Concord, a city less than an hour from San Francisco. The land is scattered with dozens of empty bunkers that once housed World War II munitions, but Lennar wants to turn it into a full-fledged community with 13,000 homes.
The plans call for many of the bunkers to get torn down, but a few could be transformed into pop-up cafés or beer halls.
The idea is just a proposal for now, but here's what the community could look like when it's finished.