Catellus Development Corporation is urbanizing the 218 acres of land for residential, commercial, and mixed-uses.
The site plan has three types of housing, including Cadence: single-family detached homes (two- and three-story); three-story condos along Fifth Street, across from the retail center called Linear, offering an "urban edge," according to the Urban Land Institute; three-story townhomes across Mitchell Avenue called Symmetry, with waterfront redevelopment subareas to the west planned in the future. Brian Barry, vice president of project management at TRI Pointe Homes, puts the total development cost for the three communities north of $75 million.
Alameda Point is the 1,560-acre (630 ha) western quarter of the six-mile-long (9.7 km) Alameda Island, which juts into San Francisco Bay immediately south of Oakland. For six decades, from 1938 to 1997, it was a naval air station (NAS) until the U.S. Navy, as the result of the federal base closure process, gave it to the city of Alameda, which occupied the other three-quarters of the island. Through two decades, the form, face, and future of the former NAS have been emerging.
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