Demolition permits have been issued for the approved affordable senior housing development at 3135 San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland, Alameda County. The plans would replace a single-story commercial structure with a six-story project. Satellite Affordable Housing Associates and Saint Mary’s Center are jointly responsible for the project.
3135 San Pablo Avenue, second-level floor plan with a fifteen-foot setback considered, illustration by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
The six-story structure will produce 73 units for low-income seniors aged 55 and older. The complex will include 55 studios and 17 one-bedrooms. St. Mary’s Center will provide comprehensive supportive services to help residents maintain well-being through case management, referrals to healthcare, and community-building activities.
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is responsible for the design. Updated illustrations show a five-over-one podium-style complex wrapped in grey metap panels and an exposed concrete base. Oakland-based Hood Design Studio will be the landscape architect, and Luk & Associates is the project’s civil engineer.
3135 San Pablo Avenue, image via Google Street View
The estimated 0.11-acre property is located along San Pablo Avenue between 30th Street and 32nd Street. The site is a block away from the historic California Hotel, where EBALDC is looking to start construction soon on another six-story affordable development.
The project has been awarded around $32 million in pre-construction funding from the City and State between 2022 and 2025. According to a project update shared by the development team in February this year, construction is expected to start as early as October, with completion estimated by late 2028.
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How are these low income seniors to apply for these? Many of the so- called affordable apartments if they only receive under 1090 a month? Calworks is useless for people over 66? What if they’re blind an have no caseworker or family to help? You have more homeless people & seniors. I don’t see this as helpful.
This project will remove a one-story (apparently vacant) retail structure with 73 low-income senior apartments. That’s a net increase of 73 dwellings. It’s not for everyone, but it certainly won’t cause an increase in homeless people.
If ebaldc can build new thinks they can currently can update the California hotel