Crossroads at Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill, CA

The Crossroads at Pleasant Hill project is the first phase in the redevelopment of the 1960's Contra Costa Shopping Center. The project remodels a vacated department store into a new 100,000 sq.ft. Kohl's Department Store. The north 40-feet of the existing building and tire center will be demolished and a completely new fatade developed to create an updated look for the center. The new shops framing the east entry to Kohl's will become the link to future redevelopment to the south. Additionally, 32,000 sq.ft. of retail space is being developed in two buildings along Monument Boulevard, with the primary pedestrian plaza between them. The center is designed with an early Californian theme to appear like a series of buildings one might find along a traditional "main street." The buildings have been carefully crafted to provide both a front side to the street and the main entry to the parking lot. Vaulted and pitched roof forms reflect references to historic agricultural and cannery building forms and provide an articulated roof line. The fatades are staggered to further articulate the individual building forms and feature greater individual identity of tenants. Brick is used as a theme material lending a sense of historyand permanence.