Oakland’s Design Review Committee is scheduled to review updated designs for what could become the tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco. The 623-foot office tower will rise at 415 20th Street, two hundred feet higher than the current tallest building in Downtown Oakland, the Ordway Building. Hines is the project developer.
A site visit by SF YIMBY shows construction is well underway for the Brooklyn Basin development, one of the largest in the city of Oakland with thousands of units and two planned skyscrapers. One of the residential structures is already accepting move-ins, and two others are nearing completion. Located adjacent to the gentrifying Jack London District, it is a new mixed-use district with 3,100 new units, 200,00 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, a few marinas, and thirty acres of public parks.
Permits have been filed to double the residential capacity of 619-621 West Grand Avenue in Downtown Oakland. The proposal will add 2,370 square feet to an existing duplex for a total of 4,440 square feet. Lillian Rafii is listed as the site owner.
New renderings reveal plans for eighteen unit townhouse development on an underutilized lot at 1925 Brush Street in the Ralph Bunche neighborhood of West Oakland. The address sits just across from Downtown Oakland on the other side of I-980. Riaz Capital is responsible for the development.
A planned new hub is under review for a corner of John McLaren Park at Sunnydale, by the southern edge of San Francisco. Recent plans were put in front of the civic design review committee for the community center adjoining a residential development, the Herz Recreation Center Project. It is a nearly twelve thousand square foot destination for exercise, meetings, and various events. The city’s Park Department is developing the project in concert with Mercy Housing and Related California.