The City of Newark invites qualified firms (Consultant or Team) to submit proposals for the development of the Four Corners Specific Plan (Specific Plan), a specific plan for the Four Corners area located around the Newark Boulevard and Jarvis Avenue intersection between the Lake‑Rosemont and Mirabeau neighborhoods in Newark, California. 

The Specific Plan will:

• Establish a clear vision, goals, and policies that will facilitate housing and commercial development, promote neighborhood revitalization through increased mixed-use development and walkability, facilitate transit station development, and incentivize multimodal station access.
• Establish zoning and development and design standards that will incentivize multiunit housing development.
• Utilize community and stakeholder input to inform decision-making around housing, commercial, and public infrastructure improvements.
• Incorporate MTC’s TOC Policy development policies and requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve residential and mixed-use development certainty on underutilized commercial properties, such as local incentive or development streamlining programs and state laws such as Assembly Bill (AB) 2011 or Senate Bill (SB) 35/423.
• Align with applicable General Plan policies and actions and Housing Element policies and programs.
• Provide adoptable text, figures, and implementation measures.

Electronic proposals are due by 5:00pm on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 to Carmelisa Lopez, Senior Planner, at carmelisa.lopez@newarkca.gov.

Questions are due by 5:00pm on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. 
 
The RFP can he found here. 

• Establish clear goals, policies, and an action program that advance equitable access to open space, climate resilience, habitat connectivity, and opportunities for ecological restoration and rewilding;
• Integrate with related General Plan elements, including Land Use, Conservation, Safety, the City’s climate/sea‑level rise work, and the recently adopted Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
• Provide adoptable text, figures, and implementation measures; and
• Support environmental review, public hearings, and City Council adoption by late July 2026.

The City of Newark Community Development Department is seeking an experienced and qualified professional firm to assist the City in developing a first-time homebuyer down payment assistance program, providing technical assistance for the development of program guidelines for deed-restricted below-market rate (BMR) homeownership units, and program administration, including asset management activities such as monitoring and ensuring compliance with affordable homeownership deed restrictions.

The City will held a question-and-answer meeting regarding this RFP on Friday, July 12, at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom. This was an optional meeting to speak to city staff and our consultant team, who are knowledgeable about the RFP and the proposed programs.

Please see the Questions and Answers Document, prepared by the city and posted on July 18, 2024. This document contains a summary of the questions received on July 12 and the City's responses.

No written questions were receievd by the July 3, 2024 due date.

Electronic proposals are due by 5:00pm on Friday, August 2, 2024 to Steven Turner, Community Development Director, at steven.turner@newark.org. 

For the complete Request for Proposals, click here.

The City of Newark Community Development Department is seeking an experienced and qualified professional consultant and/or firm to provide on-call environmental services for moderate to large development or policy projects.

Electronic proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 31, 2023 to Art Interiano, Deputy Community Development Director, at art.interiano@newark.org. Interested consultants and/or firms shall e-mail any questions by Friday, October 27, 2023.

For the complete Request for Qualifications, click here.