Formal permits have been filed for an apartment complex at 905-911 36th Avenue in Fruitvale, Oakland. The project will replace two early 1900s-built homes with two dozen condominiums close to the Fruitvale BART Station. The project applicant is listed as a Dublin-based individual.
The complex is expected to produce 24 condominiums, including six units of affordable housing. This includes three low-income units and three moderate-income units. Further information is not provided about the building scale or unit sizes.
Berkeley-based Kaliforma LLC is listed as the property owner. Public records show both properties sold in early 2021 for $785,000 in total. Demolition will be required for the existing wood-frame homes, each over a century old.
The roughly quarter-acre property is just two blocks away from the Fruitvale BART Station and the adjacent Unity Council-developed Fruitvale Village. The grocery store-anchored Fruitvale Station Shopping Center is just ten minutes away on foot.
The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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A great location right next to Fruitvale BART and close to Alameda. Nice to see some for sale product over here, especially some affordable units
This is yet another sad situation! The reason that is sad is that it’s a type of gentrification in various communities of Oakland! The reason why I say that is I’ve been here a long time a couple of decades and I’ve seen what this is doing to our communities! There’s not enough affordable housing and I was told when I went to a meeting about affordable housing and it was also printed in the Oaklandside paper that there will never be any low income housing or rentals or properties. Even to purchase! For the simple fact that there will be more homeless people and not all of the homeless people here in fact in the Bay Area it’s not about they don’t have money and it’s not about their drug use they’re using drugs probably stressed out for the simple fact they don’t have anywhere to call their own home they don’t have any shelter and we don’t have enough shelters to place people anyway plus they can’t stay for a long term! So those who have money I can do all these things they’re really not being mandated to give more low-income housing, more affordable housing because someone who is living on $900 a month is not going to be able to pay $900 a month for rent! It’s just sad that people used to care about people the pitiful thing is will never know no one will ever tell the truth but what we see is more truthful than any politician can speak! What they’re not saying is how many people have died from being homeless! They won’t say that either. Just like the West Oakland teeny homes that were set up so the homeless people could move in it well the homeless couldn’t move in it because there were already squatters there and now we have a housing authority and they didn’t bother to even look to see how the little tiny homes were? So that’s just another excuse people not doing their jobs too lazy and this is so maniacal it is so maniacal! I hope for all of us seniors included because they’re being thrown out of places that they were in and they can’t afford places bottom line … People need people there are those that help others and then there are those that help others out of everything that they have and own just because they can
I legitimately think BART could be dead in 50 years. Self-driving Robotaxis will allow for private door-to-door service, with great Wifi, 24/7. People might be willing to have a ride twice as long for that level of comfort and safety. You’ll be able to watch a movie and just chill. Add in that the BART system was designed to go to downtown SF, and remote work is here to stay, adds salt to the wound in terms of lack of demand for BART.
Nope
Thanks for the well thought-out counterpoint. Care to share your logic? Door-to-door service is fundamentally more desirable for travelers as you eliminate the last-mile problem. A private car is fundamentally more desirable because you don’t have to interact with the public and risk getting killed or mugged, and you can talk on the phone. You can also change your destination once you’ve started your trip. BART does not run 24/7. With BART, you have to wait 10-20 minutes vs instant gratification. These tech companies are far, far more innovative than BART (still running trains on floppy disks). I’m not celebrating it, but I don’t know how you can be bullish on the future of transportation with self-driving coming down the pipe very soon.
If your vision comes true, we’ll be in constant gridlock 24/7. Even just the introduction of Uber has measurable negative impacts on road congestion in basically every city it operates in. It would be 100x worse with everyone in a robotaxi. The sheer volume of people that need to commute in a city will mean that transit is always necessary and desirable.
I think cars will get smaller, which will help, but yes, I agree. I think people will be willing to wait in traffic though, because it will be so luxurious inside: chilling on your laptop, listening to music etc