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Article: Big condo, retail project may be coming to downtown Walnut Creek
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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WALNUT CREEK -- An aging eight-story monolith would be demolished
and replaced by a sprawling shopping mecca with upstairs
condominiums, if a proposed downtown project is approved.
The project dubbed The Village @ 1500 Newell Avenue is slowly
moving through the city's approval process. If approved, it would be
just a few blocks from the proposed site for a Neiman Marcus store
that has divided the city the past year.
But forget that hornet's nest. The $18 million Newell project
calls for a four-story mixed-use building to house 49 condominiums
and 36,946 square feet of retail and commercial space, all with two
levels of underground parking. The 128,575-square-foot building
would begin at the ...