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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 16 Apr 2016

Taken: 01 Apr 2016

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Oakland (#5340)

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Apparently abandoned office building in central Oakland, with mural of former Key Systerm trollies.

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 Clint
Clint
Were I a betting man, I'd guess this was built sometime right around the 1906 earthquake. I've been trying to figure out whether it survived it or was built over something that didn't.
8 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
Diane Putnam club
Good old Oakland deserves a chance, but, you're right about the housing prices. Very little of its population could afford to stay if it went the way of SF.

The mural (it looks unfinished) is OK, I guess, but it does no justice to the classic old building.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
I suspect that if there was a market for renovated office space downtown, the mural would be quickly removed. Oakland around and north of Lake Merritt is "upscaling" quickly, but mainly as a residential alternative to SF. There is some growth in business real estate, but mostly in a zone north of Broadway that seems to have been leveled and built. There's a very small entertainment district of renovated older buildings, but still lots of deserted older buildings.
8 years ago.

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