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WEST DUBLIN, CA-Windstar Communities, the residential divisionof San Diego-based Nexus Properties, has acquired the rights todevelop a transit-oriented project at a proposed new BART stationcalled West Dublin/Pleasanton Station. Windstar says its plan is todevelop a mixed-use project including housing units and retailspace.The new BART station will be called West Dublin/Pleasanton.It comprises 14 acres split between a site in Pleasanton and a sitein Dublin, each of them about seven acres.Windstar is planning amixture of high-density luxury residential units, both for sale andfor rent, as well as the retail and a hotel. The Pleasantonproperty, which is vacant land, lies between Interstate-580 and theStonebridge Mall on Stonebridge Mall Road. The Dublin site, alsovacant land, is bounded by Golden Gate Drive, St. Patrick's Way andInterstate-580.BART plans to construct the West Dublin/PleasantonStation in the median of Interstate-580, directly between the twosites. The sites will be connected by pedestrian bridges overInterstate 580.Windstar expects to break ground on these sites inthe first half of 2007. It has named McLarand Vasquez Emsiek &Partners of Oakland to design the residential portion of theproject, which will consist of studios and units of one to threebedrooms. Windstar, which was established in July 2003, owns andmanages multifamily projects in California. The company has morethan 3,000 units in various phases of development and entitlement.Among its projects is the Stadium Lofts development in Anaheim'sPlatinum Triangle, which broke ground in late 2004.