OAKLAND — A brand new House Depot retailer is being proposed in a piece of northern Oakland that at present lacks huge hardware retailers.
The shop would rise on what's at present a vacant lot on the nook of Broadway and Nice Valley Avenue, in keeping with a really preliminary proposal on file with Oakland metropolis planners.
The House Depot retailer is slated to be developed on a roughly 4-acre portion of a 15-acre website.
The handle of the event website is 5050 Broadway, town planning paperwork present. A Safeway retailer is situated adjoining to the proposed undertaking website.
The proposed House Depot could be constructed at a location that seems to be tremendously underserved by giant hardware shops, a assessment of retailer web sites exhibits.
The 2 nearest House Depot shops are in Emeryville, 1.7 miles away; and in jap Oakland on Alameda Avenue, 4.7 miles away, in keeping with the retailer’s web site.
The closest Lowe’s hardware shops are 10.4 miles away in San Francisco and at East Bay websites in Harmony and Union Metropolis which might be much more distant, the Lowe’s website exhibits.
Just a few ACE Hardware shops, two in Oakland and one in Piedmont, are a few mile away. ACE Hardware shops, nevertheless, are far smaller than House Depot and Lowe’s.
The proposed House Depot in north Oakland could be developed together with a brand new parking construction. That’s an strategy that contrasts with typical House Depot shops, which are sometimes adjoining to large floor parking heaps.
The event website is a part of The Ridge buying heart.