Development permits have been filed for a six-story residential structure at 7300 MacArthur Boulevard in Eastmont, Oakland. The project will reshape a vacant lot with 200 units, including 20 low-income homes. BDE Architecture is managing the application and design.
Construction will rise six floors, roughly 65 feet tall, with ground-floor retail, surface parking, amenities, and a rooftop deck. The project aims to benefit from the State Density Bonus Program by assigning 20 units as affordable units, of which 18 will be for very-low-income households earning around 30-50% of the Area Median Income.
7300 MacArthur Boulevard pre-fire, image via Google Street View circa 2015
7300 MacArthur Boulevard soon after the 2016 fire, image via Google Street View
The proposal will span five lots for a total land area of 1.27 acres, including one lot that the application describes as having a ‘Potential Designated Historic Property,’ or PDHP, that would be demolished. The property has been vacant since 2016 when a four-alarm fire destroyed the former strip mall.
The project is also across from 6955 Foothill Boulevard, a recent proposal for a hundred affordable units being developed by Mosaic Urban Development at a vacant lot on the corner of the Eastmont Town Center shopping mall.
The proposal remains preliminary, with renderings and the project developer not yet revealed. SFYIMBY has contacted BDE Architecture, who has not replied as of the time of publication.
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It was not a strip mall. The buildings that burned were a series of commercial buildings built before WWII built to serve the neighborhood that mostly arrived by walking, biking or transit.