Oakland, Calif.
This 10-acre site, seven of which are owned by BART, rests next to the MacArthur BART station in North Oakland and is now an unsightly hole in the ground with 580+ surface parking spaces.

CHA is master-planning a new, state-of-the-art transit village. MacArthur Station will re-invigorate the neighborhood and restore the original street grid to create a vibrant, urban village.

The project will include approximately 500 units of housing, a Class A office component of approximately 120,000 s.f. that could serve as a headquarters for a “New Economy” company, an adaptive re-use of an existing historical building into a bed & breakfast style inn, and neighborhood and commuter-serving retail, including the possibility of a 50,000-s.f. grocery market. The project also will include a new 1,500-vehicle public parking structure to serve BART as wll as the project.

The City of Oakland has recently placed the site into a redevelopment area where site assemblage assistance and tax increment financing will be available, and a public grant will fund the environmental review. The project design team is headed by the “New Urbanist” firm Moule & Polyzoides of Pasadena.