Developers expect to break ground this fall on the first phase of a 600-unit Walnut Creek transit village. Reaching that milestone took 20 years.
Adjacent to MacArthur BART in Oakland, developers recently built or scored entitlements for 877 apartments. Planning for that started when the Backstreet Boys topped the musical charts.
By contrast, Bridge Housing’s 200 units of affordable housing at the San Leandro station was a fast starter: It moved through the approval process and into development…