Sprout's Farmers Market

Sprouts Farmers Market is set to open April 26 at San Pablo Avenue as part of a controversial, yearslong development project in University Village.

Two Occupy the Farm protesters were arrested and one cited and released Monday morning for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract, which is a university-owned site in Albany, California.

A portion of land on the Gill Tract — a site of university-owned land in Albany — has recently resurfaced as a center of controversy after members of protest group Occupy the Farm entered a parcel of the site on Jan. 12 that is slated for the construction of a senior living complex.

The day before Thanksgiving, a group of about 45 protesters gathered at Sprouts Farmers Market in Walnut Creek, a grocery store that plans to build a new branch as part of a development project on UC-owned land.

On Thursday, opponents of a land development project protested a state court ruling that would allow the project to advance.

In what may be the final legal hurdle in a long-running battle, a state court ruled in favor of a contentious land development project near the UC Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany earlier this month.

Last week the University of California erected a fence around an undeveloped university owned plot of land in Albany, in an attempt to prevent Occupy the Farm protesters from intruding on the property.

Over 100 community activists occupied and farmed a portion of UC-owned research land in Albany this weekend in the latest iteration of the Occupy the Farm movement.