| West Oakland's location in the heart of the Bay Area
offers unique opportunities to attract new development, revitalize
neighborhoods and improve infrastructure. Recognizing these
development opportunities, the City of Oakland’s Community
and Economic Development Agency, the Oakland Housing Authority
(OHA) and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
(BART) formed a tri-agency collaboration that commissioned a report to guide both public and private transit-oriented
development at and around the West Oakland BART station.
The resulting document, entitled
the West Oakland Transit Village Action Report, discusses
the development of a number of opportunity and catalyst
sites in the project area bounded by Wood, Eighth, Union
and Third streets. The report also offers recommendations
for effectively utilizing those opportunities.
Several of the recommended actions outlined in the report have been enacted. The Mandela Gateway Housing Development, planned by the OHA, at Seventh Street and Mandela Parkway has been completed. The City of Oakland has completed a streetscape plan for the Seventh Street corridor and has recently obtained additional grant funding for construction. BART has released a Request for Proposal for the development of its property surrounding the BART station and is considering development proposals. A structured parking facility and mixed-use housing project is planned for a privately owned opportunity site at Fifth and Mandela Parkway along with several other proposed mixed use projects within the transit oriented project area.
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Financial Incentives
Redevelopment
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