Fremont’s fledgling new downtown has plenty of jobs but needs a lot more residents before it begins to feel like a real urban neighborhood. BART has ample underutilized real estate around its Fremont station but needs more riders.
After years of planning the East Bay city and the transit agency may have come up with a solution that will help cure what ails both of them.
This week the BART Board of Directors picked Pacific Development and Affirmed Housing to build 643 residential units — 176 of them will be affordable — on about 12 acres of asphalt parking lots on the north side of the tracks at the Fremont station…