SAN RAMON — One of the East Bay’s biggest suburban office campuses is about to become a little more residential.
Sunset Development has selected national homebuilder Lennar to construct 255 detached single-family homes at Canopy, a planned 27-acre neighborhood at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. The project will replace the BR8 office site near Executive Parkway and Bishop Drive, adding a new walkable residential district beside the existing City Village neighborhood.
Lennar has closed on 25 acres of the property, while Sunset Development will retain the remaining two acres for a future affordable multi-housing project. Demolition of the existing office buildings and construction of the new neighborhood are currently expected to begin in mid-to-late 2027.
The homes will range from two to three stories, with the taller buildings concentrated along the western edge of the site and two-story homes planned nearer to SummerHill’s City Village community to the east.
The project will include a five-block linear park at its center, along with a community pool, clubhouse, children’s play area and dog-oriented amenities. Plans also call for landscaped pedestrian connections to City Village, CityWalk, Bartlett Pear Park and the Iron Horse Trail.
A continuous sidewalk along Executive Parkway is intended to connect the neighborhood to Bartlett Pear Park and the trail, while Bishop Drive will receive a tree-lined, meandering sidewalk. In other words, the project is designed to function less like a traditional isolated subdivision and more like a neighborhood within the growing Bishop Ranch district.
Canopy has been working its way through San Ramon’s planning process for more than a year. Earlier public plans described the broader 27-acre site as a mixed-income community with 255 for-sale homes plus a separate affordable apartment component, bringing the potential total to more than 400 residences.
The newly announced Lennar deal applies to the 25-acre single-family portion. Sunset Development has not yet announced a builder, timeline or final unit count for the retained two-acre affordable housing site.
The development is part of a much larger effort to remake Bishop Ranch from a sprawling employment center into a mixed-use suburban downtown with housing, retail, restaurants, parks and entertainment. Bishop Ranch says roughly 1,000 homes are already underway across the property, with approximately 8,000 homes ultimately planned.
That transformation is already visible around City Center Bishop Ranch, where offices, restaurants, retail, apartments and new residential projects are beginning to sit much closer together than they did during the campus’s corporate-office heyday in the 1980s and 1990s.
Canopy is especially notable because it will add detached homes, rather than just apartments or condos, in a part of San Ramon where major new housing proposals have increasingly focused on denser multifamily projects.
Construction is still more than a year away, but the project is another clear sign that Bishop Ranch’s next chapter will involve far more people living there — not just commuting in for work.
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