The City of Brentwood announced it anticipates the Sand Creek Road Extension project to be completed and opened by the end of September 2024.
Upon completion, Sand Creek Road would extend to Heidorn Ranch Road. The city announced the bridge structure over Sand Creek is now complete. This month Brentwood can look forward to securing the potable water mains to the bridge and tie-ing them into the existing water mains at each end. Then they will be able to work on paving, landscaping, lighting, signing, and striping for potential project completion by the end of September 2024.
Background:
The project, upon completion, it will connect Sand Creek Road with Deer Valley Road in the City of Antioch allowing access to Kaiser Hospital–cutting travel time for ambulances by an estimated 10-minutes. It will also connect Sand Creek Road and Heidorn Ranch Road allowing access to both Costco and Home Depot from Brentwood.
The project, which has been on the drawing board since the late 1990’s, was to be built through development while in 2018 there began to be calls for road improvements and the expansion to begin after multiple fatal crashes and major injury accidents.
Back in July 2022, Sand Creek Road was prioritized as the Fourth Priority in the fee program. However, James Donlon Extension Project is now estimated to be $300 million which would mean ECCRFFA has a contribution of $200 million and the City of Pittsburg would contribute $100 million.
“The Sand Creek Road Extension Project is an $8.7M project that will extend Sand Creek Road to Heidorn Ranch Road and will provide Brentwood residents with a direct connection to Kaiser Hospital and the Innovation Center that includes the recently City approved Costco to be located off of Lone Tree Plaza Drive,” said Mayor Joel Bryant.
The project consists of vehicle travel lanes, bike lanes, median islands and utilities.
Costco Breaks Ground in Brentwood
BRENTWOOD, CA — The City of Brentwood in Contra Costa County, will celebrate the opening of a new Costco store in early 2025 after breaking ground in July.
The retailer with stores in Antioch and Tracy has eyed the City of Brentwood for some time. Mayor Joel Bryant shared the following as it relates to Costco’s effect on the city, “Residents of Brentwood have excitedly awaited the arrival of Costco for far too long. We are delighted to welcome this retailer to our town which will undoubtedly reduce the trips for area residents and generate much needed revenues for our city”.
Tim Ogden, City Manager, shared: “Costco will represent one of our largest employers and tax generators in town. The City strategically prepared for its arrival by extending Sand Creek Road from Highway 4 to Heidorn Ranch Road in an effort to alleviate traffic generated along Lone Tree Way. It will also represent one of the first non-residential developments in the City’s Innovation Center. We welcome the arrival of Costco with more good things to come”.
Costco’s arrival in Brentwood means that the 66,000 local residents as well as thousands more from the cities of Antioch and Oakley as well as the communities of Discovery Bay and Bethel Island will no longer have to travel more than 10 miles east and west to stores in Antioch and Tracy. The store will also serve as a catalyst to attract more national retailers to the remaining 4 acres adjacent to the store and continue to strengthen Brentwood’s role as a leader in the East Contra Costa County shopping experience. The new store will also help foster a planned mixed-use development just south of the new Costco along Heidorn Ranch Road as part of the Innovation Center.
The City’s Economic Development staff are pro-actively seeking a developer to acquire and assemble approximately 25 acres just south of the pedestrian and bicycle trail which will create a new town center. The town center will consist of anywhere from 200 to 300 townhomes and apartments with upwards of 100,000 square feet of retail and office development in a Main Street format.
To learn more about this mixed-use development opportunity, please contact the City’s Economic Development Team at https://www.brentwoodca.gov/business/economic-development.
Previous stories:
- Aug 8, 2023 – Sand Creek Extension Project Breaks Ground in Brentwood
- March 1, 2023 – ECCRFFA Agrees to Jump Sand Creek Road Extension in “Priority List”
