Northern Oakland properties, proven throughout the define, with addresses of 5901 Faculty Ave., 5941 Chabot Highway, and 6012, 6016, 6028 and 6048 Claremont Ave. Boundaries are approximate. A Jewish Neighborhood Campus that can embody a college is being proposed on the long-time website in Oakland of an workplace and retail website that had been owned by Nestle Dreyer’s, the high-profile ice cream firm.
OAKLAND — A Jewish Neighborhood Campus that would come with a college is being proposed on the long-time website in Oakland of an workplace and retail advanced that had been owned by Nestle Dreyer’s, an iconic ice cream firm.
The campus would sprout on an irregularly-shaped property that fronts on three busy streets in Oakland’s Rockridge District, a alternative procuring and eating neighborhood, in response to paperwork filed with Oakland metropolis officers.
“The mission aim is to create a Jewish Neighborhood Campus, a spot for the Jewish Neighborhood Heart of the East Bay to increase their instructional and group providers,” the planning paperwork state.
In 2019, Emeryville-based Libitzky Property Cos. paid $41 million for eight parcels in north Oakland, a deal that included the acquisition of an workplace constructing for Nestle Dreyer’s, the long-time former website of a Dreyer’s ice cream parlor, a number of retail buildings, some residences and the Nestle Dreyer’s Cronk Heart.
Now, plans are being pitched for the event of a Jewish Neighborhood Campus on the three-acre parcel.
The anticipated makes use of would encompass administrative places of work, preschool, afterschool, summer season camp, group courses and group occasions reminiscent of Jewish vacation celebrations and performances, the proposal reveals. Weddings and bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs may additionally happen on the positioning.
The group campus additionally would “create a hub for non-profit Jewish organizations to come back collectively in a central East Bay location close to BART and Oakland Public Faculties, to maximise assets, to additional collective influence, and to raised serve the group,” the proposal states.
The properties are close to the nook of Faculty Avenue and Chabot Highway and have some frontage on Claremont Avenue. The event website consists of parcels whose addresses embody 5901 Faculty Ave., 5941 Chabot Highway, and 6012, 6016, 6028 and 6048 Claremont Ave., the planning paperwork state.
The first workplace constructing on the positioning was constructed for Dreyer’s in 1992. Dreyer’s nonetheless occupies 5901 Faculty Ave, 6028 Claremont Ave., and 5941 Chabot Highway underneath a multi-year lease settlement. The planning doc didn’t describe the rental provisions or the lease expiration date.
“We're contemplating elimination of some buildings on the positioning and addition of others,” Libitzky Property mentioned within the proposal. “We intend to keep up current basic retail gross sales industrial actions within the present 5901 Faculty Ave. constructing.
The retailers within the buildings that Libitzky Propery owns embody Crossroads Buying and selling used clothes retailer, Boba Guys Rockridge, Sneakers on Solano and In Full Swing Plus Sizes, a ladies’s clothes retailer, in response to Google Maps.
Emeryville-based Libitzky Property, a veteran East Bay developer, believes that the retention of the retail would bolster the present space.
“The mission will preserve current outward-facing retail on Faculty Avenue to contribute to neighborhood vitality,” the planning paperwork state.