Lake Merritt BART project: Senior housing coming to site of past displacement

Published by Oaklandside
May 2022

From Oaklandside

BART tore down houses to build the Oakland Chinatown station in the 1960s. Some say it has a chance to help heal old wounds.

Plans to develop hundreds of housing units and an office tower at the Lake Merritt BART station are creeping along, with an affordable apartment building for seniors coming up first.

The whole project will transform two full blocks of Chinatown over the next six or more years. Led by developers Strada and East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC), the plans approved in spring 2021 will result in 557 new apartments, 233 of which are priced for low-income residents, spread among three buildings.

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