Contractors have until 2 p.m. this Wednesday, October 14, to submit bids to rebuild Livorna Park at 2615 Miranda Ave. Contra Costa County puts the base construction contract at $2,520,000 on its online planroom listing. The drawings, by Stantec, are dated "Issue for Bid - 9/4/2026."
The deadline matters because of what the drawings include. In 2024, public meetings about the park split over a few specific features: a bigger sports court, a splash pad, more parking, and the pavilion. The plan headed to contractors keeps almost all of them.
What the bid drawings actually include
The County's Notice of Exemption, posted April 29, 2026, lays out the project in more detail than the planroom page does. Here is how it compares with the park as it stands.
| Feature | Livorna Park today | In the renovation plan |
|---|---|---|
| Playground | 8,400 sq ft; County inspectors found the play structure has reached the end of its life | Replaced, with shade sails, play-area seating, shade structures and umbrellas |
| Sports court | 2,538 sq ft, striped for pickleball | Expanded to a full court by adding about 3,074 sq ft, with two retaining walls about 4 feet tall |
| Bocce court | Existing | Repaired |
| Water play | Not listed among the existing features | New water play/mister area with water treatment tanks and equipment |
| Parking | 13 spaces | About two more stalls |
| Trees | Existing landscape trees | About 15 removed, including three Coast Live Oaks; about 58 native, drought-tolerant trees planted |
| Restrooms and furnishings | Existing | Upgraded to meet ADA requirements |
The entrance changes too. The old trellis comes out and a custom metal arbor, a removable decorative bollard, and new concrete walkways to the parking lot go in. At the pavilion, perimeter paving gets added and the benches and metal railings come out. The County's Livorna Park Revitalization FAQ says the splash pad would run at "virtually zero water depth." It would collect, filter, sanitize, and recirculate the water, and it would operate only in warm weather.
A July 2025 playground concept presentation gives an idea of the play area's direction. It shows an accessible nature and garden theme, separate fenced areas for ages 2 to 5 and 5 to 12, and features like swings, climbing nets, musical play, a universal carousel, and a turf mound. That presentation is a concept, not the bid set, so the final equipment could look different.
The 2024 meetings that shaped it
Talk of renovating started in March 2022, when County Public Works and Special Districts told Supervisor Candace Andersen's office the park's facilities were deteriorating. Then came two surveys, two special meetings at the park itself, several Alamo Municipal Advisory Council meetings, and a postcard to every Alamo residence inviting people to take the second survey. The FAQ says plainly that the survey "is not an election." The final call belongs to the District Two Supervisor and the Board of Supervisors, with heavy weight on the MAC's recommendation.
The County's notes from the May 2024 meetings record comments for and against nearly every element. They name three main points of disagreement:
- Improve outreach.
- Adjust the pavilion location.
- Resolve the pickleball issues.
Pickleball was the sharpest of the three. The FAQ explains that the existing court is already striped for it, and that the preliminary plan proposed a multi-sport court with one additional pickleball court. Some comments in the notes opposed more pickleball because of noise. Others wanted a full basketball court "but would like to see a balance on the amount of pickleball." The County's answer at the meeting was that only one court's worth of lines would go on the surface. According to the FAQ, the MAC and many community members had asked for the full court so more families and kids could play basketball and other sports on a larger surface.
Parking ran on a similar track. The County argued that 13 spaces fill up and push cars onto nearby streets. The final project adds about two stalls. The FAQ also takes up parking enforcement during Music in the Park and Movies in the Park, so the County clearly knows how full the lot gets on event nights.
The full court made it into the bid drawings, along with the mister area and the extra stalls. The pavilion stays where it is, with new paving around it.
The dates that exist, and the ones that don't
Funding is the first open question. Per the FAQ, County Service Area R-7 funds pay to maintain Livorna and paid to build it originally, and those funds can only be spent inside the R-7 boundary, meaning Alamo. None of the documents reviewed for this post confirm where the money for the renovation itself comes from.
Here is the timeline on paper:
- March 2022. Public Works raises the need to renovate.
- Early 2023. The first resident survey opens.
- May 2024. Public meetings on the preliminary plan.
- July 2025. Playground concept presentation.
- April 29, 2026. The County posts its Notice of Exemption, which expected construction to start in July 2026 and run about 320 working days.
- September 4, 2026. Bid drawings issued.
- September 28, 2026. Pre-bid meeting.
- October 14, 2026. Bids due.
The July start obviously came and went, since bids aren't due until mid-October. The 320-working-day estimate works out to roughly 64 five-day work weeks, so the County was planning on more than a year of construction. None of the materials reviewed give a contract award date, a closure period, or a reopening date. For updates, the Alamo Municipal Advisory Council agenda center is the place where the next steps should show up.
The other long vacancy, at 130 Alamo Plaza
Alamo Plaza has its own question closing out on about the same timeline. Rite Aid stopped pharmacy service on July 28, 2025, and closed for good on August 24, 2025. Prescriptions moved to the CVS at 3158 Danville Blvd. When DanvilleSanRamon.com ran its October 2025 cover story on downtown Alamo, the empty Rite Aid storefront was one of the vacancies it pointed to.
That space now has a tenant. DanvilleSanRamon.com reported in September that Vim + Vigor Fitness is renovating the unit for its first-ever "Reserve Club," with a December opening planned. The outlet saw remodeling crews at work inside 130 Alamo Plaza. On its website, the company calls the Reserve Club "our most elevated fitness experience." It isn't open yet, and a December target can slip just as easily as Livorna's July start did.
It joins two fitness tenants already in the center. The Iron House is at 190F Alamo Plaza and BODYROK's pilates studio is at 170F. 24 Hour Fitness held unit 140F for years before closing for good in 2020. EDENS, which bought the center in 2022, says on its property page that the center keeps evolving as a gathering place, and points to its "Welcome to Beautiful Alamo" murals as part of that work.
The one date this month you can count on
The Alamo Farmers Market holds its 13th annual Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 18, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 120 Alamo Plaza, in the Bank of America parking lot. The market's Patch listing says vendors will decorate their stalls so kids can trick-or-treat. A ventriloquist and puppeteer performs from 10 a.m. to noon, there are kids' activities all morning, and the first 50 kids get a free mini pumpkin. EDENS lists the weekly market at 200 Alamo Plaza from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., so if you're going for the pumpkins, follow the organizer's listing and arrive early.
The market runs every Sunday all year. If your Sunday routine already includes the plaza, our late-August Alamo weekend guide covers the rest of the morning.
Projects like these shape how a neighborhood feels day to day, and they're part of why we keep a close eye on Alamo. If you'd like to know how a new court, a new splash pad, or a filled storefront might figure into your own home's value down the road, Joanna Chen is happy to talk it through. You can start with an instant home valuation or browse the Alamo neighborhood guide.
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