A building worksheet has been submitted for the ongoing proposal at 430 Broadway in Oakland. Last reported on by SF YIMBY in December of 2025, the development plans have since progressed past interim site projects and is now ready to move forward with major building plans.
Those plans include a classic five-story podium-style building, containing 66 units of affordable housing, and a single manager’s unit to support tenant needs. The unit sizes would consist of both studio and one-bedroom layouts, creating variable layouts to fit the building floorplan while focusing on small affordable units. Residents of the building can also expect access to common areas and building services office spaces.
The building is being designed by David Baker Architects. Plans at this stage show a conventional structural design of a four-story wood-frame construction over a single-story reinforced concrete base. As a result, the exterior design has a clear distinction between the upper floors and base, with the upper floors designed to cantilever past the podium and provide additional square footage to the residential areas on those floors. Façade materials for both upper and podium floors will include white cement panels, brown masonry or ceramic siding, and dark metal elements.
430 Broadway from along 5th Street, rendering by David Baker Architects
This project is the first part of a combined affordable and mixed-income development being brought to two Alameda County-owned properties in the Jack London Square to Downtown Oakland neighborhood. The site is the former location of the Alameda County Probation offices, which were vacated several years prior to the new building proposal. Related California and the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation are responsible for the current proposals for the larger site, covering both the 100% affordable development at 430 Broadway as well as future development on the remaining property.
430 Broadway Previous Probation Offices, image via Google Street View
The property for 430 Broadway stretches between 4th Street and 5th Street, next to the I-880 overpass. This places it right on the border between Jack London Square and Downtown Oakland. Future residents will have the benefit of walking-distance access to the shops and restaurants in both those neighborhoods as well as Oakland’s Chinatown. Meanwhile, the 12th Street and Lake Merritt BART Stations are both accessible for longer-distance commutes.
430 Broadway Site Location, image via ArcGIS Online
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Oh please oh please! Would be so wonderful to have this as a new entry along Broadway to our neighborhood. We need more housing and it’s a great and friendly neighborhood.
The connection to downtown Oakland will be much improved with the Oakland-Alameda tunnel work with new crossings. Should finish around the same time as this construction assuming everything proceeds normally.
This should just be market rate housing. As one of the poorer areas of the Bay Area, Oakland is one of the last places that should be incentivizing income-restricted units. It just eats into potential property tax revenue for the city, yet it’s as if every new development in Oakland is affordable housing. They should be taking advantage of SF’s housing crisis to poach high income workers from them, but instead they seem intent on staying SF’s poor neighbor forever, forever struggling with decades long budget-shortage and crime.