From Berkeleyside: Construction at People’s Park — which began in July 2024 after the project was given the green light and UC Berkeley cordoned off the site with a wall of shipping containers — is going as planned, according to the university. In a an update issued [last] Thursday, Cal said grading the lot is nearly complete and work on the student housing part of the project has begun, with the installation of a tower crane in anticipation of pouring the building’s foundation.
The plans for the project, which have been years in the making and prompted much opposition, including several lawsuits, include a 1,100-bed student housing complex, green space, as well as some form of commemoration to acknowledge the park’s history, from being land originally inhabited by native peoples, to its pivotal role in Berkeley’s free-speech protests in the 1960s.
The original design also includes a 100-unit supportive housing building for unhoused people and those on “extremely” low incomes. However, a Berkeley nonprofit that was set to build the affordable apartments backed out of the project in 2023 during the lengthy legal battle over the site. UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson told Berkeleyside [last] Friday that after issuing an RFQ in the first quarter of 2025, the goal is to bring a developer on board this summer, two years ahead of the anticipated start of construction. He added that the university is working with the city and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to extend funding earmarked for the project...
Full story at https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/10/peoples-park-construction-is-on-schedule-says-university.
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