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“.

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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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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