Applications have been submitted seeking the development of a transit-oriented project in Oakland. The project proposal includes the development of three four-story residential complexes and a five-story parking garage.
The Unity Council is the project sponsor and Signature Properties is the developer. BART owns the project site.
Fruitvale Village Corner at 37th and East 12th
The project site is a parcel spanning an area of 3.4 acres. Named The Fruitvale Village, the project proposes to bring 275 residential units into three four-story complexes, along with 277 parking spaces into a five-story parking garage. The parking structure will span over an area of 111,100 square feet and the three residential buildings will range from 101,000 to 115,000 square feet in area.
The existing BART parking lot and associated landscaping will be removed from the project site. The proposed project will be constructed in four phases. The parking structure will be constructed during Phase 1, and three four‐story residential buildings will be constructed during Phases 2 through 4.
The project is moving into phase two. The project site is located adjacent to the Fruitvale BART station, bound by 35th and 37th Avenues, East 12th Street, and BART tracks.
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What a missed opportunity! TOD with 1 for 1 parking. Wow! They’ve chosen to reserve space for people who drive to BART instead of making space for people to live next to BART? This sh*t is why people are done with the Bay Area. We’re no longer Austin where you can drive until you can afford a home and we still refuse to embrace the natural next step in our region’s evolution which is into a sort of Copenhagen or Amsterdam by the Bay. So frustrating. It’s so frustrating that uber Woakland still does not address climate change like it’s knocking on our door!
Hi!
I’ve been researching this project for a class project. I know that at least for the two blocks/plazas built in the 90s/00s the whole site was originally owned by BART, which planned to turn it into one large parking garage back in the early 90s. Part of the deal the Unity Council made with BART was that as a condition of them handing over control (so the UC could build the housing, services, etc.) there was required to be a certain amount of parking. I assume that parking requirement exists for this newer phase as well, although I haven’t studied it as much.
Yes housing and planning in the Bay Area is a mess, but this project (at least the first phase) has actually been one of the more successful/notable examples across the country of stakeholders coming together for mutual and public benefit, and is generally considered one of very few examples of a project that helped existing residents/community rather than just causing gentrification. It’s not perfect, ofc, but it did really well at something really hard. Certainly you’re free to criticize! And it may be that the second phase really is terrible and I just know less about it. But I would guess there are probably many more problematic projects that are better subjects for your very valid frustration.
Becca, that research project sounds really interesting! I’d love to read your work when you’re finished if you could email it to me. Best of luck!