Route 238 Mission Blvd, Hayward - Phase 2

Year completed: 2020

In 2014 the City of Hayward completed Phase I of 3 Phases of the Route 238 Corridor Improvement Project, the largest capital improvement initiative in the City’s history. Extending over five miles within the City of Hayward, a regional transportation improvement project to alleviate crippling congestion through the City’s main arteries, it transformed a severely congested and barren thoroughfare into an attractively designed facility employing state-of-the-art traffic management technology, environmentally friendly landscaping. Major infrastructural upgrades significantly improved accessibility, and increased energy efficiency.

Construction of Phase 2 was completed in 2020, and included improvements on Mission Boulevard from Industrial Parkway to the southern City limit at Blanche Street. Phase 2 is a pleasing civic landscape, demonstrating that a Rated landscape also exhibits high‐quality design. 

ReScape Score

63

Address: Mission Boulevard Corridor

Project Owner/Developer: City of Hayward

ReScape Rater: Casey Case

Landscape Size: 1,067,220 sq ft

Grounds Open To Public? Yes

ReScape Landscape Highlights

• Existing base and asphalt path was pulverized in place and reused as a homogeneous, stabilized base course below the new asphalt path.

• Asphalt grindings generated from the removal of existing asphalt concrete roadways was used below the new curb, gutter and sidewalk.

• Includes a broad variety of native and climate appropriate plants

• Large stature Oaks provide wildlife habitat benefits.

• Saves 411,951 gallons of water per year and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by up to 1620 tons of C02E over the life of the project. Annual greenwaste reduction equals up to 12.5 tons.