As part of Sargent Town Planning, Robert Alminana was project manager and lead designer for this new urban district in the City of Hercules.
The project included the preparation of a master plan and form-based code for this brown-field site. The City of Hercules had long intended that the site be planned as a downtown district, preserving certain historic structures of the former Hercules Powder Company factory town.
At the hub of the Master Plan is the mixed-use, pedestrian- and transit-oriented Historic Town Center District, complete with a new Amtrak station. The Plan also includes two residential neighborhoods that radiate from the Historic Town Center, and a higher-density mixed-use neighborhood.
