A Las Vegas development team is eyeing a big play in North Concord: roughly 940 homes on a 59-acre former Coast Guard site at 3295 Haleakala Street, a short hop from the North Concord BART station. The concept mixes townhomes, detached houses and accessory units, and it is landing just as the city pushes ahead with rezoning to allow denser housing in select neighborhoods. Developers and city leaders say the project could bring hundreds of new homes to a part of Concord that has struggled to lure large-scale investment, though approvals and financing are still a long way from locked in.
What’s proposed for the Coast Guard site
The team behind the plan, led by Eddie Haddad and Georges Maalouf and represented by lobbyist David Bowlby, is sketching out about 940 homes: 403 townhomes, 409 detached houses, 56 accessory dwelling units and 72 affordable units, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Bowlby told the Chronicle the developers hope to file a formal application in the near future, although there is still no public timetable for when permits might be issued or when construction could actually start.
How it fits with Concord’s rezoning push
The proposal is arriving in the middle of Concord’s broader housing shakeup. The city is moving to implement an Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing overlay that would rezone about 20 acres to allow higher-density residential development as part of the 2023-2031 housing element. Those changes, approved by the City Council in January, are meant to create capacity for roughly 1,000 additional homes citywide and to allow greater density along selected commercial corridors, according to KALW.
Who owns the land and what they paid
The Coast Guard parcel is already in private hands. Q Villages LLC paid about $58.4 million for the former federal property in a 2021 auction. Public records and listing data put the site at roughly 59.4 acres at 3295 Haleakala Street, per Redfin, and earlier coverage has detailed the owners’ interest in renovating vacant units while they plan any full-scale redevelopment, according to reporting by The Real Deal.
Process, timing and reaction
For now, the concept is still very much in the early innings. City officials and the developers note that the application has not yet gone through environmental review, and the city is clear that major entitlements and financing can take years. The San Francisco Chronicle points out that Concord is also negotiating over the far larger Concord Naval Weapons Station redevelopment, a long-stalled project covering more than 2,200 acres that has been discussed for up to 15,000 homes and major public uses, highlighting how slowly big projects can move in the city.
Councilmember Carlyn Obringer told the paper she supports moving the former Coast Guard site forward while making sure building heights and designs blend with nearby neighborhoods. Some residents, meanwhile, have raised concerns about how the added homes might affect traffic and local infrastructure if the project ultimately gets the green light.
