Permits have been filed for a five-story residential development at 5091 MacArthur Boulevard in the Maxwell Park neighborhood of Oakland. The project will add 28 apartments across from the Mills College at Northeastern University campus. South San Francisco-based P. Jordon Construction is listed as the property owner, filing through Mills Grove LLC.
5091 MacArthur Boulevard, elevation by MBH Architects
The five-story structure will yield around 47,000 square feet, including 38,300 square feet of housing and 8,500 square feet for the 28-car garage. All 28 units will have two bedrooms, and four units will be deed-restricted as affordable. These units will be priced for two very low-income households and two moderate-income households.
MBH Architects is responsible for the design. The overall scheme is not particularly inspiring, with two butterfly roof accents facing MacArthur Boulevard as the primary aesthetic flair for the otherwise boxy structure. The exterior will be clad with cement lap siding, concrete panels, and tiling to accent the southeast corner.
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5091 MacArthur Boulevard, image via Google Street View
The vacant overgrown property spans just over 0.4 acres at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Simmons Street. Future residents would live across from the Mills College at Northeastern University campus. Mills College had operated from the Oakland campus from 1871 through 2022, when the institution was purchased by the Boston-based Northeastern University.
The lot is currently listed for sale by Ocean Element Real Estate, with an asking price of $3.5 million.
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with all the vacant land in oakland, how many trees will be chopped down for this babal box?
This land is not buildable without neighbors permitting the builders to place hooks under their properties on the hill, which will never happen. You need to go deep into the bedrock and have huge steel pillars put into the ground or it won’t be safe! Also, their “garage” must have the entrance and exit on MacArthur, not Simmons! Maxwell Park will fight you every step of the way! No shortcuts for the safety of our MP residents!
I believe you have the wrong idea where this building is being constructed. The address is 5901 MacArthur Blvd. which is close to Seminary Ave & MacArthur Blvd.
The address is 5091 MacArthur Boulevard, so on the west side of Mills College at Northeastern
Well, I’m a fan of trees as well. But we desperately need the housing, and this looks decent to me, with every apartment having a balcony. I hope there’s a nice roof deck, as well. It couldn’t be a better location for students commuting to school! My guess is that Northwestern will expand the Mills
Campus a lot over the years – what better place to put housing than along a major bus route!
The Northeastern campus at Mills is a nice opportunity for Oakland that is still early in its transition to Northeastern from Mills (think it’s mostly freshman who transfer to Boston after the first year and masters students?). If they make the immediate neighborhood more hospitable for students and also connect better down McArthur to the Laurel district somehow, might be an opportunity to think about? Think students basically just get on shuttles to Rockridge for shopping and are not really in the neighborhood.