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Old 04-23-2012, 12:35 PM
 
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No to public funding, but yes to the idea of newer, safer, cheaper, better, and better-managed apartments in Oakland.

Places that students can afford without living in a dilapidated house with boarded-up windows, a sinking porch, and a trash garden out front. Maybe that's the nature of student ghettos, and the frat guys and tri-delts do that to themselves, but I'd love to see some affordable options in the area that have been cared for in the past three decades.

I shudder each time I see yet another new "luxury apartment" building going up, while students and regular people get priced further out and further back in time.

Anyway, if Oakland is going to be a real neighborhood and not just one for transients there for a year or two, it will need more shopping options. And I'm still hoping for a T station in my lifetime.
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Old 04-23-2012, 02:04 PM
 
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No to public funding, but yes to the idea of newer, safer, cheaper, better, and better-managed apartments in Oakland. . . . I shudder each time I see yet another new "luxury apartment" building going up, while students and regular people get priced further out and further back in time.
I understand where you are coming from, but you are running up against some hard economic realities.

If a private developer brings a new, safe, better, better-managed apartment building to market in Oakland, it is not also going to be cheaper. A little of that is going to be cost-driven, but ultimately it is a supply and demand issue: lots of people with higher incomes would want to live in an apartment building like that in Oakland, and so our private developer is going to price it accordingly.
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Old 04-23-2012, 06:55 PM
 
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Forget Oakland its maxed out and already serves a purpose, no room to do anything in Oakland, everything must be done in neighborhoods that flank it.

Uptown could strongly fill any void of Apartment/Loft demand that feeds both Oakland and Downtown....I see Uptown more strongly attracting Oakland Professional more so than Downtown (especially if we can ever get BRT established all the way up Fifth). Downtown still has plenty of space to satisfy those that want to be in the center live/work/play. Oakland on the other hand as I described above is maxed out, so from the Oakland Portal all the way to and through Uptown you have this wide open canvas to feed Oakland's needs.

Uptown has the most potential of any neighborhood of having a strong apartment/loft community filled with Yuppies. It the perfect location to damn-near EVERYTHING..

Here's an update on Fifth Av High School, with some walk through pics as well.

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Yet so far so good for the $10.5 million project, which was made possible by tax credits. Nationally registered as an historic landmark, the Fifth Avenue School should prove a major boost for its Uptown neighborhood, given the size and focal location of the property in the neighborhood, they said.

Featuring ceilings high enough to establish lofts on the lower floors, Steiner and Hill expect the building to draw significant interest because of its large floor plans. One bedroom units in the building are typically more than 1,000 square feet, which Steiner said was larger than some two-bedroom apartments he rents out in Shadyside. Monthly rents range from $725 to $800 for a 390-square-foot studio to $2,000 to $2,950 for a two- to three-bedroom units.

SLIDESHOW: Inside the 5th Avenue School Lofts - Pittsburgh Business Times
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Old 04-24-2012, 03:49 PM
 
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Imagine how much pot has been smoked, and pizza delivered, in the depths of South Oakland
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