Developers seem more optimistic that funding will be available to increase our high-rise rental stock around the Lake. Let’s just hope that construction costs don’t continue to rise and scuttle these potential deals:
“High-rise development is starting to show signs of life in Oakland for the first time since the Great Recession, with a 298-unit apartment building on the brim of Lake Merritt expected to receive entitlements early next year.
Lake Merritt Boulevard Apartments, set to rise 270 feet on a vacant site on 12th Street and 2nd Avenue, needs the City Council to greenlight a redevelopment plan for the surrounding Lake Merritt BART station area this month in order to skate through environmental review.”