Downtown Hayward has been completely transformed by this plan. B Street, the main retail spine was once moribund, its storefronts empty, and the pedestrian link to the BART station severed by acres of surface parking. The Downtown Plan proposed building a structured garage on the other side of the BART tracks in order to liberate land for other uses. A new City Hall was built linking the station to B Street, together with several hundred new housing units, a new supermarket, movie theater complex and other civic amenities.