West Yosemite Avenue beyond Fishback Road has had an “edge-of-town” feel for decades.

The stretch features large vacant parcels populated with weeds, a scattering of pre-1960 homes, older commercial structures including a massive Quonset hut, and — up until a few years ago — a pasture with a half a dozen cows grazing.

In recent years, there have been a sprinkling of new endeavors.

Sunnyvalley Meats built a processing plant that recently had an expansion, a small business park was built, and a gas station/convenience store combo was built on the northwest corner of West Yosemite Avenue and Airport Way.

Earlier this month, Satellite Dialysis staged the grand opening of a new 10,500 square-foot medical office on the northeast corner of the same intersection.

Now a number of proposed projects are making their way through the approval process representing what will likely be more a $150 million investment.

The biggest of those will be at the intersection of St. Dominic’s Drive and West Yosemite Avenue.

Last month, the city completed processing the initial study for the a 216-unit apartment project on 9.29 acres saddling for St. Dominic’s intersection next door to the business park that also borders Winters Drive.

Across the street, Kaiser this month received final City Council approval for an expansion project of 27,450 square feet that includes 34 additional treatment bays for the emergency department.

The overall project that includes new parking and other improvements will take upward of 28 months to complete at a cost of $83.4 million.

The endeavor will include traffic signals at St. Dominic’s Drive that will tie into the main driveway to access the 216-unit apartment complex.

There will also be left turn pockets and landscaped medians on West Yosemite. The landscape median will be the first ever constructed on West Yosemite.

To the west at the next intersection with Yosemite which is Fishback Road, the city is requiring developers of parcels around that intersection and future northern extension of Fishback to put in place a four-lane roundabout.

One of the parcels is where a 62-unit apartment complex is envisioned west of Kaiser Hospital on the northwest corner of Fishback Road and Yosemite that was approved in mid-2023.

A proposed complex west of Airport Way at 2210 West Yosemite on the south side of the street will include retail commercial along Yosemite with apartments behind it.

To the east, 420 units in the Prose project planned for the western extension of Center Street. Part of the apartment complex will front Yosemite Avenue immediately east of Yosemite Avenue.

The West Yosemite Avenue — in terms of possible draw for retail-style ventures is benefiting by new home construction along Airport Way to the north.

Center Street — at least the western end — now intersects with Airport Way after work connected with the three-month long road closure was completed earlier this month.

Infrastructure work is now underway on 114 duplexes and two single family homes on the northeast corner of the new Center Street/Airport Way intersection.

The 96-unit Center Pointe Apartments has been proposed for 3.7 acres at 282 North Airport Way just south of the same intersection.

To the north of the duplex project and to the south of the Yosemite Greens neighborhood, the city has approved a 24-unit complex at 380 North Airport Way known as the Waterfall Apartments.

 The Airport Way/Yosemite Avenue is starting to emerge as a high density residential/mixed commercial use special planning area as denoted in the recently adopted general plan.

The goal is to have a high concentration of residents that can support to walkable commercial destinations such as small neighborhood markets, haor care services, restaurants and such.

At the same time, there would be enough of a population basis to serve the Airport/Yosemite area with robust public transit.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com