Groundbreaking Begins for MacArthur Transit Village

Congratulations to Bridge Housing on the groundbreaking of the MarArthur Transit Village! CCLR helped secure the 1C funding and provided technical assistance for the cleanup of the site. 

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May 24, 2011 – A giant excavator was parked in the yard of a motel near the MacArthur BART station on Monday afternoon, where dozens of people were taking pictures with the machine that may soon start tearing down the motel rooms.

The crowd, which included Oakland City Councilmember Jane Brunner (District 1), State Senator Don Perata and representatives of other elected officials, was celebrating the groundbreaking of the MacArthur Transit Village, a development project that will eventually transform a 7.76-acre site near the MacArthur BART station into a mixed-use area with new housing units and retail shops, along with restaurants and possibly a day care center.

The motel and its neighbor, another motel, will be replaced by a 478-space BART parking garage in the next twelve months, said Rick Holliday, board chair of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a non-profit based in San Francisco and a major developer of the project. "All the surface parking needs to be aggregated in the garage and then that land is available for the housing," said Holliday.

According to the project's website, the parking garage, which will cost about $51 million in total, is only the first step. After that, 624 new housing units, 108 of which will be affordable homes, will be created starting from 2012, along with commercial and community space. The whole project is planned to be completed in 2021.

Read more at Oakland North (link below).

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