The city is proposing to purchase the 30-acre State Farm property from Laulima Development, which bought the property in 2017 with the intention of building a $400 million mixed-used housing and commercial development to anchor what the planned suburban city has never had: a downtown core. Rohnert Park is set to shell out $12.5 million to buy the property long envisioned as the site of a future downtown, securing for the city the lead role in one of the most ambitious development projects in its 60-year history. Some aspects of the project, such as the offices, could be smaller in scope than what was originally proposed. The city envisions a similar project with market rate and affordable housing, a plaza and some retail and office space.
The company notified Rohnert Park in late 2021 that it was putting the property up for sale. Laulima proposed building 460 apartment units, a luxury hotel and 270,000-square-feet of office, retail and restaurant space but more than four years later the project never got off the ground. The city already owns a 2-acre lot on the southwest corner where the city’s Public Works Department is housed. In 2017, Laulima Development, a San Francisco-based firm, bought the property for $13.5 million from SunCal, who decided not to move forward with its project. Real estate developer SunCal bought the property in 2013 with plans for a project called Rohnert Crossings. The insurance company vacated the property in 2011 after relocating employees around the state. The 32-acre property at 6400 State Farm Drive used to be a regional office for State Farm Insurance.
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