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UC Village, also called University Village or University Village Albany, is a housing community for students who are married or have dependents. It is owned and administered by the University of California, Berkeley. It is located within the city limits of Albany about two miles away from the main Berkeley campus, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m). It was previously known as Albany Village. It is also commonly referred to as The Village. The village was constructed on the Gill Tract, a marshy area at the foot of Codornices and Marin Creeks. It began as a federal housing project for some of the thousands of workers who came to the San Francisco Bay Area to work in various war industries during World War II, especially the Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond. It originally extended across the city limits demarcated by Codornices Creek into an adjacent neighborhood of Berkeley as far south as Camelia Street, but after the war ended and the village was acquired by the University of California, the Berkeley section was demolished and replaced by various industrial buildings. During the war, the Key System constructed a massive wooden trestle through and over the heart of the village and the nearby Southern Pacific railroad's mainline for the Shipyard Railway to Kaiser Shipyards. It was quickly dismantled at the end of the war. ==History== The original units at UC Village, which resembled barracks, opened in the 1940s and 1960s. They housed many U.S. Navy sailors while wars occurred. After the wars, many workers at the shipyards at Mare Island and Richmond lived in the units. The University of California Berkeley acquired the units in 1956. In 1998 the University of California board of regents approved a plan to replace the older student housing at UC Village with new units. Marty Takimoto, the director of communications and marketing for UC Berkeley's residential and student services department, said that mold, lead paint, proximity to the water table, and proximity to the bay were reasons why the university chose to demolish the old housing.〔Wolf, Andrea. "( UC's Albany housing near completion )." ''Alameda Times-Star''. October 13, 2007. Retrieved on October 3, 2011.〕 Around 2000 282 new units were about to open. The scheduled occupancy of all of those new units was to occur in 2001.〔"(STUDY PREDICTS MORE STUDENTS, * TRUSTEES WARN THAT A PROJECTED ENROLLMENT REBOUND FOR ALBANY UNIFIED MAY NOT RESULT IN A NET GAIN )." ''West County Times'' (''Contra Costa Times''). March 14, 2000. A03. Retrieved on October 3, 2011.〕 The new buildings had a total of 582 units. Between July 2006 and October 2007 half of the units had been occupied by families. Completion was scheduled to end near October 2007.〔 In September, 2007, most of the oldest remaining World War II era buildings were demolished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UC Village」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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