In April the City of Oakland announced the acquisition of the Extended Stay America at 3650 Mandela Parkway by the city’s partners Memar Properties and The Housing Consortium of the East Bay. The project is now under review for conversation to long-term affordable housing, with a plan of serving very low and extremely low-income classifications.
SteelWave has proposed a 144,500 square foot development on the Alameda-Oakland Estuary waterfront to be used for laboratory and life sciences. The project is located on the old Alameda Shipways site that has sat vacant for years. The plan replaces a previous residential project proposed by SteelWave in 2018 on the same site. The new project will be designed by MBH Architects.
New Development at Emeryville’s Public Market has been in the works for some time, with the city approving a development agreement for the site in December of 2015. However, the exact plans for Parcels A and B, which abut the railway tracks to the north of the market hall, have been in flux. The meeting on Thursday May 22nd will review revisions to the current project proposal.
The property at 7954 MacArther Boulevard has filed a zoning worksheet with the city of Oakland. The project, entitled The Kingdom Builder Senior Housing Development, is 6-story, 50-unit affordable senior housing development in East Oakland. The project, brought by Community Housing Development Corporation, was first reported on by SF YIMBY in 2022, but has undergone a handful of design changes and iterations since then.
The Berkeley Design Review Committee is scheduled to review plans for a second building within the Innovation Zone in Downtown Berkeley, Alameda County. The project would create eight floors of laboratories, conference rooms, and classrooms to be occupied by a future institution and graduate students. The existing property is owned by UC Berkeley.
