BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A new apartment community in southwest Bakersfield is now open for tenants.

Park Center at Seven Oaks celebrated its ribbon cutting Wednesday in the area of White Lane and Allen Road. The complex features more than 500 units and the first residents moved in Nov. 1.

Park Center sits right along a three-mile trail that runs through Seven Oaks, and a pedestrian bridge is planned to carry that trail over South Allen Road and directly into Westbridge — connecting the new neighborhood to the rest of the community.

“When you finally get it open it’s just like, ‘We made it,’ and probably the most gratifying like the thing you just go ‘Wow’ it’s when people start moving in the it really settles in we’re providing housing and sense of place for people because we all want a place that’s home,” Andy Fuller President of Fuller Apartment Homes said.

Developers say it’s Bakersfield’s largest apartment community and the first part of the new Westbridge neighborhood to open.

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