Several new building permits have been filed for the Glen at Heather Farm development at 850 Seven Hills Ranch Road in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County. The plans will replace undeveloped land with hundreds of homes in a senior living complex. Spieker Senior Development Partners is responsible for the application.
The project is the latest continuing care retirement community planned by the Menlo Park-based firm. The County Board of Supervisors approved the plans in November 2022. However, the project was delayed due to a narrow 50-square-foot strip of land owned by the City of Walnut Creek. The City finally agreed to sell the site in December last year. The firm permit was filed in late January, and in late March, Spieker filed eight subsequent permits.
Glen at Heather Farm independent living entrance, rendering by KTGY
Glen at Heather Farm site map with labels, map by Gates + Associates
The development will create 354 dwelling units, including 302 independent-living residents in an apartment complex and 52 single-family homes described as villas. The apartments will be on top of a 410-car garage. Residents will get access to the two-story health center with 100 assisted living and memory care rooms.
KTGY is the project architect, and Gates + Associates is the landscape architect. Illustrations show farmhouse-style single-family homes with two-car garages and landscaped front yards. The podium-style apartment complex is wrapped with an articulated facade clad with stucco, fiber cement shingles, siding, brick and stone veneer, and wood trellises.
Glen at Heather Farm villa, rendering by KTGY
Glen at Heather Farm health center entrance, rendering by KTGY
Glen at Heather Farm existing property condition, image by Google Satellite
The site is unincorporated land surrounded by Walnut Creek, just 15 minutes away from the Pleasant Hill BART Station by bus, or six minutes via bicycle. The Walnut Creek Canal and the Seven Hills private school are located along the property boundaries.
Construction is expected to last two to three years, though a groundbreaking date has yet to be established.
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Who is the construction manager or the General contractor for the project
This is a terrible location for this development, which is a fine idea in a different location. Very sad day to let an open space directly adjacent to a City park be developed in a manner that requires the extreme amount of devastation to the environment that this one does. It will be a gated community extremely incompatible to the existing surroundings that offers no community green space and zero workforce housing. Don’t buy the argument that the people moving in here will leave affordable housing for the community, prospective residents will need every penny they can squeeze out of any housing sale they make to move in as it is a very expensive senior living option. A disturbing location choice in so many ways. Developers are laughing in glee at the politicians who fell for their schtick. Suckers!