New way to improve Oakland schools? Put a ballpark on them?
Oakland State School Administrator Randy Ward is planning to lease or sell valuable school district property near downtown Oakland to developers. One potential use might be a ballpark for the A's.
The Oakland Tribune is reporting today that one of the potential bidders for the Oakland Unified School District Headquarters redevelopment project is KUD of Santa Monica. KUD sent Naoko Ezawa, who was on the design team of San Francisco's Pac Bell Ball Park (now SBC Park). The Trib and the San Francisco Chronicle have been reporting over the past few weeks that new Oakland A's owner Lewis Wolff wants to build a new baseball-only ballpark. Wolff has been talking about using the Coliseum parking lot as the site, but has not ruled out moving the team. San Jose, Portland (Oregon), and Las Vegas are interested in the team.
The same Trib article from today also notes that former Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb, who famously clashed with Mayor Jerry Brown over the Uptown site, is attending the Broad Foundation's Academy for Urban Superintendents. The Trib has reported recently on Bobb's current training to be an urban superintendent in the Broad Academy program. Today's article speculates that Bobb might be preparing to come back to Oakland to work on OUSD's redevelopment activity. Bobb wanted the Uptown site for a ballpark, but Brown wanted housing and the mayor won. (EDW Note: The Uptown project received a major subsidy from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, and community pressure forced the Mayor, the ORA, and the developer to include affordable housing in the project.)
The OUSD released an RFP to solicit development proposals for the so-called Channel Area site, which abuts Laney College and Peralta Park and includes the OUSD administration headquarters. Proposals are due on May 31 and EDW is keeping an eye on this project. We will report more on this project soon.
Today's Trib article, referenced above, can be found at http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2647916
The OUSD RFP for the Channel Area site can be found at
http://webportal.ousd.k12.ca.us/news/Final%20OUSD%20Development%20RFP%20022805.doc
(Try http://webportal.ousd.k12.ca.us/index.aspx if the above link fails.)
The Oakland Tribune is reporting today that one of the potential bidders for the Oakland Unified School District Headquarters redevelopment project is KUD of Santa Monica. KUD sent Naoko Ezawa, who was on the design team of San Francisco's Pac Bell Ball Park (now SBC Park). The Trib and the San Francisco Chronicle have been reporting over the past few weeks that new Oakland A's owner Lewis Wolff wants to build a new baseball-only ballpark. Wolff has been talking about using the Coliseum parking lot as the site, but has not ruled out moving the team. San Jose, Portland (Oregon), and Las Vegas are interested in the team.
The same Trib article from today also notes that former Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb, who famously clashed with Mayor Jerry Brown over the Uptown site, is attending the Broad Foundation's Academy for Urban Superintendents. The Trib has reported recently on Bobb's current training to be an urban superintendent in the Broad Academy program. Today's article speculates that Bobb might be preparing to come back to Oakland to work on OUSD's redevelopment activity. Bobb wanted the Uptown site for a ballpark, but Brown wanted housing and the mayor won. (EDW Note: The Uptown project received a major subsidy from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, and community pressure forced the Mayor, the ORA, and the developer to include affordable housing in the project.)
The OUSD released an RFP to solicit development proposals for the so-called Channel Area site, which abuts Laney College and Peralta Park and includes the OUSD administration headquarters. Proposals are due on May 31 and EDW is keeping an eye on this project. We will report more on this project soon.
Today's Trib article, referenced above, can be found at http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2647916
The OUSD RFP for the Channel Area site can be found at
http://webportal.ousd.k12.ca.us/news/Final%20OUSD%20Development%20RFP%20022805.doc
(Try http://webportal.ousd.k12.ca.us/index.aspx if the above link fails.)
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