New renderings have been published for the five-story corner housing at 3720 Telegraph Avenue in Mosswood, Oakland. The updated illustrations show an adjusted approach with slightly decreased unit capacity. Arcata-based Danco Group is the project applicant.
3720 Telegraph Avenue lobby entrance, rendering by HKIT Architects
3720 Telegraph Avenue facade elevations, illustration by HKIT Architects
The 64-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 33,900 square feet, including around 27,230 square feet of housing and 1,800 square feet of office space. The plans will include 42 affordable units, including 34 studios, seven one-bedrooms, and one two-bedroom unit. The largest unit will be set aside for the on-site property manager. Parking will be included for 40 bicycles and no vehicles.
HKIT Architects is responsible for the design, working with Van Dorn Abed Landscape Architects. The exterior will be clad in cement plaster, wood-finished cedar wood, and clay-brown tiles. The ground floor will include a lobby, bike storage, offices, community rooms, and an outdoor backyard.
3720 Telegraph Avenue site plan, illustration by HKIT Architects
3720 Telegraph Avenue, image by Google Satellite
The roughly quarter-acre property is located at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and West MacArthur Boulevard. Future residents will be just over a block away from the MacArthur BART Station.
Demolition will be required for the existing two-story motel. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have not been established.
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Better than the old design. Warmer colors, and like the mini park/plaza facing MacArthur.
It seems like Oakland mostly builds affordable housing instead of commercial housing, which tells me they don’t really understand what affordable housing is supposed to be for. Affordable housing doesn’t make housing more affordable on a regional level, it just fights economic segregation by allowing low-income people to live in neighborhoods they wouldn’t normally be able to, yet Oakland isn’t high income by regional standards and none of their affordable housing projects are being built in the hills where most of the high income residents actually live, so instead they’re just accidentally reaffirming existing economic segregation by excluding above average income people from living in below average income areas. Combine this with the fact that affordable housing complexes normally need government money to help fund construction in order for them to be profitable, and it seems that Oakland is wasting and missing out on a ton of potential tax revenue by not just letting these complexes be commercial units. I blame a misunderstanding of terminology. Affordable housing is most appealing to low-income areas because the word “affordable” sounds good to them, even though affordable housing is actually supposed to be built in wealthy areas where it’s actually necessary.
Why is it all one bedroom apartments? Clearly this isn’t “family” housing. Who are the people that are expected to move in? We need more family housing in Oakland; two and three bedroom units, not units for one or two people.
There are veterans there now hopefully it’s still the veterans that are there and other people in need of affordable housing
To the previous comment, Temescal is one of the nicest and most expensive parts of Oakland so it makes sense by your logic to build affordable housing here. Affordable housing isn’t usually built in the hills because they’re remote and difficult to get to and expensive to build on. So yes it does make sense for affordable housing to be built in this part of Oakland.
The defined statistical area for affordable housing in Oakland includes Berkeley and Freemont, within which Temescal is below median income. Oakland as a whole is below median income in a regional context, so Oakland really doesn’t need to waste more tax money subsidizing affordable units, what it needs is more commercial housing to better grow the city’s economy and improve fiscal solvency by bringing in more tax revenue, which has been a problem for Oakland for decades. That would be better for everyone in the bigger picture, including low-income residents, but Oakland seems hesitant to approve much commercial housing because they probably view it as gentrification.
I see lack of trees for wood considering that there was fires in the past surrounding areas to locally source some wood…taking account that the competition for soft and hard wood leading to bankruptcy,aging workforces and time to replace the burnt trees and delivery leads to housing being not mostly built.
There was a building boom in downtown Oakland 2014-2019. You can get a great deal on an apartment in one of those buildings right now because demand nosedived during/after the pandemic. Oakland is actually pretty friendly towards market rate housing so the reason you don’t see much market rate building is that the environment for market rate construction is bad across California.
This building is also not a motel, but rather a converted motel that provides transitional housing to homeless people through the State’s homekey program so it wouldn’t be great to redevelop it into market rate housing anyways. Temescal could certainly use some more market rate housing but it’s not as if they just don’t want it.
Oakland isn’t building this housing, the Danco Group is. Oakland wants as many units of housing built as possible (including market rate and affordable) to boost tax revenue, but no developers want to build market rate housing here because it is financially infeasible. There will likely be no more market rate projects in Oakland for the next 3+ years with current market conditions. Get used to more affordable, if anything.
Another character lacking borg cube. We have good weather here, why not balconies to give people some outdoor space that doesn’t have to be shared? I also agree larger units would be more desirable and that Telegraph is not upscale, it’s just not, nor has it ever been.
Why do they build them so short. Make it bigger.
i agree.
Thanks
What will be the crime rate in this area in Oakland?