Preliminary permits have been filed for a new residential infill project at 6200 Shattuck Avenue in the Bushrod neighborhood of Oakland. The application describes creating a few dozen condominiums using shipping containers as the construction material. The application was filed by a Belmont-based individual.
Given the preliminary nature of the application, details remain limited for what might transpire on the corner lot on Shattuck Avenue and 62nd Street. The filing looks to build 30 condominiums across three phases, utilizing 80 shipping containers as a modular construction material. The three phases are each expected to rise four floors and contain around 20,000 square feet of floor area.
Demolition will be required for the existing single-story automotive repair shop.
The property owner is listed as the Belmont-based Glenn D. Logan Trust. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be established. The project applicant has yet to reply to a request for comment.
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Yikes, this property has a looooooong history of hazardous waste violations. Permanently capping it might be the safest thing but that construction crew should get serious hazard pay (and definitely no edible gardening plots).
I’ll never understand the obsession with shipping containers…just build a real building. Regardless, glad to see housing here!
Why are we building new, substandard buildings for the homeless? Instead, why not construct beautiful, affordable buildings for the general public to move into? This way, the homeless could relocate into the people’s former homes.
Shipping containers are a good idea. They are sturdy, inexpensive, and can be designed into creative living situations. I have seen examples of residences in Italy that were quite appealing.
Shipping containers never work right, low ceilings, furred in walls, unconventional details, lack of trade experience, toxic marine paint and hard to insulate. It can be done, but not without costing a fortune and being a lesser product compared to other housing. I thought this fad died out 15 years ago hopefully the developers aren’t being guided in this direction by their architect. There are way better modular options being built I believe in Alameda.
Kind of a weird spot for such a project, but I support the creation of new housing especially on a street with great bus lines and near a wonderful park!
The Belmont applicant is Johnny Browning, who runs the Glenn Logan Trust that owns that land. That land was a gas station before it became Automasters. Johnny is “known to the State of California as a vexatious litigant” who has also committed elder abuse by financial means. Both facts can be researched online. A number of us on 62nd St above and below Shattuck dealt with Johnny after Glenn died because Johnny is all about making the quickest buck regardless of law or regulation. We finally got the City to shut down the completely illegal businesses he had running at 6200.
Make sure there is enough parking. The “right of passage’ for your teenager is a drivers’ license and soon another car in the family. THAT is the western culture – cars. Public transportation is good and could be optimum if we had better security measures. A lot of money ill spent on bike lanes and there does NOT seem to be enough bike traffic to warrant it. AND, taking away a driving lane, making us park practically in the middle of the street is just dangerousand causes a lot of confusion. BEWARE cyclers.do you think they will truly STOP making and selling cars??