The Real Deal: Oakland votes to move ahead on turning police building into at least 600 homes
Oakland, a city that’s met only a fifth of its affordable housing goals, approved plans to seek a developer to turn its police headquarters into a mixed-use project with at least 600 units.
The City Council voted 8-0 on Tuesday to let developers submit plans for the 267,000-square-foot building, on a parcel bounded by Broadway and Sixth, Seventh and Washington streets. The structure is in “grave need” of capital improvements to meet building code standards, Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, the resolution’s author, and Councilmember Carroll Fife, its co-sponsor, wrote in a Feb. 7 memo.
