The new 10-acre waterfront retail center boasts outdoor plazas, patio dining and more than 90,000 sq ft of retail, boutiques, restaurants, a bank and marine office space, all clad in a variety of modern architectural motifs.
Located in the heart of West Oakland, the 45,000-sq-ft facility supports a central kitchen for district-wide food production, a culinary arts education center and an urban farm.
The Park Point Landscape project transformed four acres of flat Silicon Valley land into a lush environment of rolling hills topped with native plants and grasses.
The smoother, safer path afforded by the three-mile truck climbing lane and wider shoulders belies the unexpected challenges encountered during the three-year construction process.
Close preconstruction collaboration between Caltrans and the project team yielded a host of cost-saving innovations that helped reduce the budget by nearly $40 million while also helping expedite the process of elevating SR 58 across U.S. Route 395 and an adjacent freight rail line.
Created to provide a nexus for filmmaking and computational media, the facility features media labs, classrooms, experimental content creation space, a sound stage, post-production editing suites and a 100-seat Dolby Atmos screening theater.
Pursuing LEED Gold accreditation and delivered via progressive design-build, the innovative $96-million, 115,000-sq-ft building is a long-awaited athletics and educational resource for the college and surrounding community.
Overcoming potential delays ranging from steel fabrication and permits to wildfires and the global pandemic, the three-level facility was substantially complete just two years after construction began.