Business View Magazine - July 2016 61
In 2008, in order to make Union City even more ame-
nable both to its businesses and residents, it pro-
posed an extensive redevelopment of the city’s BART
(Bay Area Rapid Transit) station - which had been serv-
ing the community since 1972 - and the lands around
it. The Union City Station District project included the
purchase and remediation of a former, 30-acre PG&E
pipe yard, a reconfiguration of the station to make it
more accessible to pedestrians and buses, and the
construction of nearby housing units.
Joan Malloy is Union City’s Economic and Community
Development Director and oversees the many parts of
the Station redevelopment project. One facet, which
Malloy says will be complete by the end of 2016, is the
creation of a two-sided BART station. “Union City had a
single-sided station and we are now finishing up mak-
ing it a two-sided station with a brand new direct pe-
destrian access for the residential units that are either
built or planned,” she says. “We’ve completed the East
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