To mitigate environmental impacts caused by the massive scale of the project, Catellus donated hundreds of acres of land along the southern and western boundaries of Pacific Commons to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Today, Pacific Commons contains more than one million square feet of research and development and industrial space, including a 500,000 square-foot distribution center for Office Depot.
A large portion of Pacific Commons was re-entitled by the City of Fremont to retail use in early 2004, and by October of that year Catellus opened the regional shopping center.
The expansion is a shopping and entertainment sub-district called The Block @ Pacific Commons and includes a lifestyle center anchored by Target and a 16-screen Century Theatres multiplex.
In April 2006, the owner Lewis Wolff took a modified version of his so-called Ballpark Village proposal, Cisco Field, to Fremont where a large 143-acre (0.6 km2) parcel of land was available north of Mission Boulevard and south of Auto Mall Parkway off Interstate 880 in Pacific Commons.
The site plan proposed 520,000 square feet (48,000 m2) of commercial space adjacent to the ballpark, and would have included a hotel, restaurant, movie theater and several parking garages of varying size.
More than 580 of those residences — including 12 each behind the left- and right-field bleachers — would have been sprinkled into retail space north and east of Cisco Field, a 32,000-seat stadium with an estimated $450 million price tag.