Transforming Oakland's Waterfront Neighborhoods (TOWN)
TOWN projects will help to reconnect West Oakland, Chinatown, and Downtown Oakland to the Waterfront, while enhancing goods movements and safety for all users.
TOWN projects will help to reconnect West Oakland, Chinatown, and Downtown Oakland to the Waterfront, while enhancing goods movements and safety for all users.
The Upper Sausal Creek Erosion Control Restoration Project (Project) is located about 2,000 feet upstream of the Sausal Creek crossing with El Centro Avenue, off of Park Boulevard.
Funding by a State of California grant, the Uptown Wayfinding Signage Pilot Project brought together City staff and interested stakeholders to improve the signage in the triangle bounded by 14th Street, West Grand Avenue, San Pablo Avenue and Broadway.
An interdisciplinary strategy to improve underpasses in Oakland.
Former creeks, now buried in culverts, are memorialized by a series of bronze relief sculptures embedded into sidewalks at locations above these culverts. The pieces portray stepping stones surrounded by native fauna that inhabit the creeks such as Rainbow Trout, Pacific Chorus Frogs, California Newts and dragonflies. Each site features five bronze “stepping stones” inviting the visitor to step across as if crossing a creek.
OakDOT is implementing safety improvements on West Grand Avenue between Mandela Parkway and Market Street.
In 2009, the US EPA awarded the City of Oakland two “community-wide” brownfield assessment grants totaling $400,000 for use in west Oakland.
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) at the West Oakland BART station (PLN18490), including 762 residential units, 382,460 square feet of office, and 75,000 square feet of retail.
Upgrades to as many as 14 bus stops in West Oakland, along with the removal of unused railroad tracks at one location
W Grand Avenue to 52nd Street
The roadmap for a clean and equitable transportation system in Oakland