The former Concord Naval Weapons Station is becoming a master-planned community: 12,272 homes, 6 million sq ft of commercial (up to 26,500 jobs), and 800+ acres of parks and trails, with Brookfield Properties as master developer. Gov. Newsom signed SB 328 on Sept 30, 2026 — it exempts the project from certain CEQA reviews once the City of Concord and Brookfield sign a development agreement, and requires 25% of the homes for lower-income households. The Navy approved the $44.6 million term sheet on Sept 24, 2026 for ~2,422 acres. Specific Plan work starts winter 2026–27, community engagement begins early 2027, the plan reaches the City Council in summer 2029, and the first 1,600 homes are slated for ~2030 — a 30-year build-out. It's a Superfund site: the Navy must complete cleanup before anything gets built. That means no permits are filing yet — but the permit volume this project will generate over three decades is enormous, and the contractors who are ready first win the work.
Track the permit timeline → — done vs. upcoming milestones, and what each one unlocks for permits. Updated as milestones land.
Contractors: get on the permit list → — pre-register your company now, before permits exist. When they start flowing, you're already in the system.
Where the project stands right now
- Sept 24, 2026 — the U.S. Navy approved the term sheet: $44.6 million ($4.6M now, $40M deferred over four years) for ~2,422 acres.
- Sept 30, 2026 — Gov. Newsom signed SB 328, clearing the CEQA path once the city and Brookfield sign the development agreement.
- Winter 2026–27 — Specific Plan work begins. Brookfield leads it; the city and Brookfield are hiring consultants now.
- Early 2027 — public community engagement starts.
- Summer 2029 — the Specific Plan is expected before the Concord City Council.
- ~2030 — construction on the first 1,600 homes, if Navy cleanup stays on track.
- 30 years — the full build-out horizon.
What permits this project will generate
Over a 30-year build-out, this project produces permit volume in four lanes. Three of them are ours:
- Production-home trade permits, at volume. 12,272 homes means thousands of water heater replacements, HVAC changeouts, electrical panel upgrades, and re-roofs over the life of the project. These are simple $125-tier permits — and volume is exactly what our bulk intake is built for (10+ addresses, 10% off).
- Commercial tenant improvements, for decades. Mixed-use, neighborhood commercial, and campus districts mean restaurants, retail, banks, and offices cycling through TI permits as tenants turn over. TI work is our core specialty.
- Fire protection. Fire alarm and sprinkler submittals across residential and commercial buildings — the lane we've filed in for 15+ years.
- Infrastructure and grading. Roads, utilities, site work — big civil packages handled by the master developer's GCs. Not our lane, and we'll tell you so.
Why no permits are filing yet — and what to watch
This is a positioning moment, not a filing moment. Here's the honest sequence:
- The trigger is the development agreement. SB 328's CEQA exemption locks in once Concord and Brookfield sign it — that's the milestone that turns planning into construction.
- Watch the Specific Plan team. Consultants are being hired this winter. The firms and GCs around that table are the ones who'll need permit support when vertical work starts.
- Watch community engagement (early 2027). Public meetings surface phasing, timelines, and the first contractors circling the project.
- Infrastructure first, buildings later. Grading, roads, and utilities come before any trade permit you'll ever file. Anyone promising you base-reuse permits in 2027 is selling you something.
How contractors get ready now
- Set up your filing account now, not later. Our portal holds accounts on the Bay Area portals — when the first permits flow, you're filing on day one instead of doing paperwork. Concord-specific filing details live on our Concord permit guide.
- Plan for multi-address volume. Our bulk intake takes up to 2,000 addresses in one request — paste or CSV, one payment, per-address tracking. Built for exactly this kind of project.
- Know the same-day filing lane. We file permits same-day and track them through issuance — no black holes, proactive updates at every stage. You file from the field and never leave the job.
- Follow the project. We'll keep this guide updated as the development agreement, Specific Plan, and phasing milestones land.
- We're a Concord business. PermitsPros is based in Concord (Business License No. 5027635) — we file in this city every week and know the Building Division's online submittal flow, over-the-counter trade permits, and what makes submittals bounce.
- Simple trade permits move fast here. Water heaters, HVAC swaps, and electrical work often issue over the counter or within days in Concord — exactly the permit types the base reuse will generate at scale.
- Completeness is everything. Most Concord delays come from incomplete submittals bouncing back, not slow reviewers. Our Pre-Flight Check catches it before the city does.
Drawn from 15+ years of issued Bay Area permits in our archive.
We file Concord permits same-day.
The Naval Weapons Station reuse will generate permit work for 30 years. When it starts flowing — trade permits, TI, fire protection — we file same-day and track every one through issuance. Filed today. You never left the job.
Based on publicly available information (City of Concord, Contra Costa Herald, Sept–Oct 2026). Project timelines, processes, and requirements change — confirm current details with the City of Concord. Not legal advice.