UC Berkeley's 1,100-bed student housing complex at People's Park reached a construction topping-out milestone as crews finished the concrete frames of the 12-story North Wing and seven-story South Wing. The project remains on schedule for a 2027 opening, with lower floors receiving tan panels and windows along Haste Street. A shipping-container barrier topped with razor wire continues to enclose the long-contested site; the wall was painted a uniform beige over the summer. The two wings will connect via a breezeway. UC Berkeley is seeking a new developer for a planned 100-unit supportive housing building on the west side.
After growing to their full size over the past six months, the concrete frames of the site's 12-story North Wing and seven-story South Wing are giving students, residents and anyone passing through the Southside neighborhood a sense of the scale of Berkeley's most controversial housing development. UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson wrote in an email that the project topped off, in construction parlance, a couple of weeks ago.
The long-contested space remains walled off by the shipping container barrier UC Berkeley installed after a mass police action to clear protesters from People's Park in early 2024. The razor wire-topped barrier has also gotten an update recently: once a mishmash of colors from the dozens of shipping containers, the wall was painted a uniform beige over the summer. Behind the barriers,
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