Brooklyn Basin
Description
Oakland, California
Abandoned warehouses and manufacturing lands are being transformed into a sustainable urban mixed-use master-planned community on the Oakland Estuary—a move forward for a forgotten part of Oakland’s history.
Features
- 65-acres
- 3,100 residential units
- 200,000 square feet of retail and commercial
- 30 acres of parks, public trails and open space plus new marinas and renewed wetlands
- Transit connections
- Minimum LEED Silver certification; GreenPoint Communty
- Rating
- Local hire agreement
- Shoreline improvement and wetlands restoration
- Land plan to anticipate sea level rise
Process
Significant community outreach Fully approved in 2010 Groundbreaking anticipated ___
Land Planners
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Partnerships: Oakland Harbor Partners and Zarsion Holding Group, Beijing
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