Lake Merritt BART Plan Swaps 28-Story Tower for 112 Affordable Homes
The 85-foot building would rise on 9th Street between Oak and Fallon streets.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Downtown Oakland skyline over Lake Merritt at dusk. Photo: Darin Marshall / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Plans for the second half of Block One in the Lake Merritt BART redevelopment have shifted from a 28-story, mostly market-rate tower to a fully affordable eight-story building, San Francisco YIMBY reported.
The new project, called One Fallon and led by the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, would have 112 units in an 85-foot building with 7,620 square feet of ground-floor retail. Traded reported it replaces a 360-unit market-rate tower that had been led by Strada Investment Group.
The 0.44-acre lot sits along 9th Street between Oak and Fallon streets. The unit mix includes 12 studios, 43 one-bedrooms, 27 two-bedrooms and 30 three-bedrooms, with parking for 60 bikes and 17 cars. Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the architect.
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