Brickyard Cove Pond with San Francisco and Angel Island in the background at sunset

Brickyard Cove is an upscale waterfront neighborhood in

Richmond, California Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council.

History

The neighborhood is surrounded by the bluffs of Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline and Kellar Beach park. It is adjacent to

Point Richmond Point Richmond, also sometimes referred to locally as The Point, is a neighborhood in Richmond, California, United States, near the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, between Interstate 580 and the San Francisco Bay. History O ...

. The area is subdivided into three main living areas, mostly condominiums terraced into the hills, private houses on stilts along the spits, and luxury tract homes built in the late 2010s. The area includes the Richmond Yacht Club and Brickyard Cove Marina. The area is home to a fishing pier at Ferry Point, which takes its name from the fact that it used to be the car ferry connecting to San Francisco. Passengers ending their journeys on the transcontinental railroad, which terminated in Richmond at Ferry Point, could take a car ferry to San Francisco. One such ferry was called the SS ''San Pablo'', after the bay. There is also a beach, Keller Beach, popular with locals. The neighborhood is also home to the

Golden State Model Railroad Museum The Golden State Model Railroad Museum is an operating model railroad exhibit located in Point Richmond, California, within the boundary of the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline park. It is located in the Brickyard Cove area and features dozens o ...

, one of the largest model railroad exhibits in the world. Brickyard Cove had

AC Transit AC Transit (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is an Oakland-based public transit agency serving the western portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. AC Transit also operates "Transbay" ro ...

bus service (line 79) until budget cuts in the early 1990s when a sales tax was not renewed. In the mid 2000s there was controversy over a large condo project at the cove. In 2017 new houses and large condominiums were under construction on former wetlands.Joffee, Karina (August 25, 2016
"Richmond Sued Over Housing Plan"
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East Bay Times The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East Bay ...

'' The cove is home to Brickyard Cove Pond.

References

Neighborhoods in Richmond, California {{ContraCostaCountyCA-geo-stub