Hilltop Green or "The Green"is a neighborhood in
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a Richmond, California, City Council, city council. bordering the city of
Pinole, the census-designated place of
El Sobrante, the neighborhood of
Hilltop, and
Hilltop Mall.
History
Hilltop Green has its own neighborhood council and community center in its centrally located self-titled park. The area has one entrance and exit to
Hilltop Drive and
AC Transit
AC Transit is the main Public transport bus service, bus transit operator in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. AC Transit is the third largest bus operator in California, serving the western portions of Alameda and C ...
commuter bus service to San Francisco. Local bus service was eliminated in 2007. The green was originally one of the first racially integrated suburban developments created in the Bay Area and the nation and it maintains this diverse character to present times. The neighborhood is connected to
Pinole Vista Shopping Center by steps and to the
Richmond Parkway Transit Center by an overcrossing beyond the aforementioned steps. There is a small strip mall at the neighborhood's entrance, which lies across from
Rolling Hills Memorial Park, a cemetery, and
Hilltop Park & Ride Lot, a commuter hub.
Garritty Creek passes through the neighborhood. Richmond's only synagogue Temple Beth Hilel is located in the Green along Park Central Drive.
Chris Treadway: Richmond temple plans Holocaust remembrance event
Chris Treadway, ''Contra Costa Times
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'', 16-04-2012, access date 19-04-2012
References
Neighborhoods in Richmond, California
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