In 2015, East Bay officials broke ground on a long-planned vision to turn a Fremont industrial quarry into the Bay Area’s first shoreline campground built in decades. The 91-acre Dumbarton Quarry Regional Recreation Area includes a unique bayside campground, picnic area, playground, amphitheater, and trail connections to Coyote Hills, San Francisco Bay Trail and the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.

Interactive Resources, Inc. has a long working relationship with the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), which conceived of and manages the new recreation area. We were recently awarded a contract to provide architectural design and engineering services for the EBRPD’s service yard at the recreational area. The project consists of the design for a new building and related site improvements for the service yard located at 9600 Quarry Road.

The new building is approximately 40 feet by 110 feet, and includes a three-bay garage, offices, restrooms, shower, kitchen, lockers, and break room/common area. There is also a separate structure for refuse and storage, as well as a vehicle wash station. Also included in the design are site improvements, exterior yard lighting and perimeter gates and fencing.

Our services included design development, construction documents, bidding and construction administration services. Pending EBRPD Board approval, our design could be used as a standard schematic design for future maintenance facilities.

The Dumbarton quarry dates from the Bay Area building boom of the 1950s; 1 million tons of gravel a year were used to build parts of San Francisco International Airport, Oakland International Airport, highways, and numerous major infrastructure projects around the region. The quarry went from a hillside 350 feet above sea level to a pit 350 feet below sea level – one of the lowest-elevation sites in the United States.