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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance
Boring design, if inoffensive. I'm sure we'll see it evolve, although I can't be sure it will be for the better (I predict they will be made to throw in some random boxes and changes to facade treatment to "break up the massing" and thus make it look like a mess).
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It does say "preliminary drawing" and "rough estimate" so I wonder if this design is some sort of placeholder until they refine the design or come up with an actual design.
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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance
There are so many tower proposals for this area of Oakland, especially if you go back a few years in the records. If they all get built it will be transformative. For now, I'm just happy to see that there's still any type of development action at all.
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Hopefully they do end up getting built. I think it's pretty clear that downtown Oakland has a lot of potential vs say DTSF which is pretty much fully built out aside from a handful of sites, as well as Central SoMa. There's quite a few numerous low rises and surface parking lots that are for redevelopment.
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