200 Second Street – Jack London Square

428 Alice on Sale Today!

93 Units – scheduled completion date is summer 2006.

Marketed as condos, but really “condlofts” with unfinished exposed concrete higher ceilings (8-9 feet) and bedrooms on the same floor as opposed to a loft bedroom, 1Br’s start in the mid 400’s. 2BR’s are in the $600k’s, 3BR’s in the mid 700’s.

Each unit has a parking space and 3BR’s have 2 spots.

Kitchens have GE Profile Stainless Appliances + Granite countertops

Fitness center on 3rd floor is approx 800 sf. No Doorman, 2 elevators, TV Video Access to front door. $15k deposit and then go to contract…

Howard S Wright – Construction Company for 428 Alice

Great site tracking the progress of 428 Alice and another site with great pictures of the construction and neighborhood “Fourth Street Lofts Weblog“.

200 Second Street – Jack London Square

A new mid-rise luxury residential condominium is located in Oakland’s dynamic Jack London Square district and preselling in early 2006. The building will feature 74 condos and live/work lofts in 4 different and unique floor plans. There will be about 30 studios or Jr 1BR’s with sleeping alcoves, 1 BR’s with dens, 2 BR’s with dens and five large 3 BR’s. There will be a corner retail space, four work+live units, and a landscaped entry courtyard as well.

Designed by the award winning David Baker and Partners (Clocktower Lofts, 18th and Arkansas, and Emeryville Warehouse Lofts), this building is sure to add to the already growing portfolio of amazing and modern developments in Jack London Square including Pulte’s 426 Alice Street, The Sierra Building, Brick House Lofts, Portico Lofts, and Signature Properties’ 300 Harrison St.

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Fourth Street Lofts Blog

http://fourthstreetlofts.com/blog/

An interesting and oft-updated blog of the developments on and around 4th street – an up-and-coming street in the Jack London Square / Oakland Warehouse District. Great pictures of neighboring projects such as 428 Alice by Pulte Homes.

Oakland 10K

10K Housing Initiative

A major initiative launched by Mayor Jerry Brown when he took office in 1999, the 10K Downtown Housing Initiative is realizing its goal of attracting 10,000 new residents to downtown Oakland by encouraging the development of 6,000 market-rate housing units. A near perfect climate, California’s best mass transit system, a central Bay Area location and a growing downtown workforce all contribute to make downtown Oakland a great place to live.

As of November 2005, the 10K Downtown Housing Initiative has resulted in the start and completion of 61 residential projects with 7,053 units. Seventeen projects (1,663 units) have been completed, fourteen projects (1,479 units) are in construction, twenty projects (2,570 units) have received planning approvals, and ten projects (1,341 units) are in the planning process. The Initiative has literally altered Oakland’s skyline with the construction of The Essex on Lake Merritt, the first high-rise residential construction in downtown Oakland in 20 years. To date, the number of units necessary to house 10,000 new residents has been surpassed.

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Jack London – Pulte’s 428 Alice

Pulte is making a big splash in the Jack London Square/Oakland Warehouse district with 93 luxury condos…

“428 Alice is a mid-rise condominium building with an expected completion date of late summer/fall 2006. Pulte Homes offers approximately 93 one, two, and three bedroom units ranging from 800+ to 1,666 square feet. In addition to a quality home built by Pulte Homes, 428 Alice is in a premier location. Jack London Square is known for its culture, dining, shops, entertainment, and access to employment in the Bay Area’s most well known cities.”

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Jack London Square – 288 Third St

In the Oakland Warehouse District near Jack London Square, Signature Properties’ 288 Third St is nearing completion and will go on sale in a month. This is one of three new loft buildings going up within blocks of each other and nearby the acclaimed 200+ unit Sierra Condos.

http://www.sigprop.com/nbds/288third/

1,2, and 3 BR’s starting from the high 400’s.

Developers are bullish on residential towers

12 are in planning or under construction

San Francisco Business Times – November 18, 2005 by Ryan Tate

Housing developers have a barely controlled mania for building skyscrapers in Oakland, despite showing no interest in such projects as recently as last year.

At least a dozen highrise condominium and apartment projects are in the works, and they have spread far from Lake Merritt, where the towers have traditionally clustered. They are now poised to pop up all along Broadway, starting in the Auto Row area well north of downtown, then dotting the street and its flanks along 30 blocks, through the city center, to Broadway’s southern terminus. At the Jack London Square waterfront, a proposed highrise is set to rise 20 stories or more.

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Pulte gambles on new urban game in Oakland – SF Business Times

   

Pulte Homes is going where the home builder has never gone before and it’s going with eyes wide opened and fingers firmly crossed.

After cutting its teeth on such high-density housing projects as Emeryville’s Liquid Sugar, a townhouse project, and Elevation 22, also in Emeryville, the company is jumping into Oakland’s Jack London Square, where more “firsts” await. 

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