Home Depot store is floated in North Oakland with one city official

A big announcement for development employees, property-advancement buffs, and DIYers: It seems North Oakland could be finding a new Dwelling Depot retail outlet. The mega-size hardware retailer would present the spot with substantially-necessary building provides, instruments, lumber, and other matters that people need to choose timely drives to get. “The retailer would increase on what is at present a vacant lot at the corner of Broadway and Pleasurable Valley Avenue, according to a very preliminary idea on file with Oakland town planners,” studies Bay Location Information Group. 

The exact handle of the proposed store is 5050 Broadway, close to a well-liked Safeway spot. The House Depot retailer and an accompanying parking garage would just take up about 4-acres in The Ridge searching middle. The preliminary submitting at Oakland City Corridor is performing as a barometer for the keep builders to evaluate interest and to get comments from metropolis officials. So far, there are no timelines for acceptance and no schedule for general public comment classes.

A substantial House Depot retail outlet in North Oakland could not go over very well with a lot of inhabitants and at least one particular town official is presently declaring no. “A Household Depot is not the very best principle at this spot. A prolonged evaluate course of action is needed if this is a little something that is staying significantly regarded listed here,” Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb explained to Bay Region Information Team in a independent report. Kalb represents the district wherever the retailer would sit. “I would like to see a retail and housing combination on the website. A well-developed retail and housing development tends to make sense right here,” Kalb states. So much, Dwelling Depot has not issued any public statements about the proposal.

As it stands now, folks residing in North Oakland and Berkeley have to travel to Emeryville to check out a Dwelling Depot store. There are several other lesser components shops and lumber stores not far too significantly from the proposed website but they don’t supply almost the sum of alternatives that Property Depot offers. There is a Dwelling Depot shop on Superior Avenue in East Oakland but that is about 5 miles absent from 5050 Broadway. That shop has been a magnet for homeless people and for years has had a massive encampment of RV and tent dwellers near the entrance to the parking large amount. In accordance to a report by KPIX last month, the town of Oakland eventually began cleaning up the camp.