Welcome to the Projects
This central Chinatown community hub is one of the only homeownership projects EBALDC has been involved with.
What is Pacific Renaissance Plaza?
This EBALDC property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
What is Madison Park Apartments?
While most of EBALDC’s properties are in Oakland, these are the three managed outside the city.
What are Avalon Senior Housing, Giant Road Apartments, and Lillie Mae Jones Plaza?
This program has over 100 volunteers annually to help file over 1,000 tax returns.
What is VITA Tax Prep
Over 150 of these are maintained to accurately capture all of EBALDC’s property ownership structures.
What are legal entities?
This property is home to 18 nonprofits and small businesses that are managed by a third party.
What is Preservation Park?
In 2016, this six-time champion Bay Area sports team donated 30k worth of computer equipment to EBALDC's LCC Lion's Pride Technology Center.
(Hint: Baron Davis came to the ribbon-cutting ceremony)
Who are the Golden State Warriors
Once a vacant and vandalized convalescent hospital, this building was transformed by EBALDC and welcomed its first residents in May 1994.
What is Hugh Taylor House?
This program builds financial health and increases access to good jobs for all Oakland residents.
What is SparkPoint Oakland
The number of residents who live in over 1,400 units EBALDC directly manages.
4,000+
This project that aims improve the connection and pedestrian experience between Oakland Chinatown and Jack London Square; received a $2M Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
What is the Oakland Chinatown I-880 Underpass Activation Project?
This mega star visited the Asian Resource Center.
Who is Prince?
Completed in 2011, this 26-unit affordable housing project in the Iron Triangle neighborhood honoring a local activist.
What is the Lillie Mae Jones Plaza?
The EBALDC program that connects residents, artists, and partners using the power of art, culture & creativity to collectively catalyze social, physical, and economic transformations in their neighborhood.
What is Creative Community Development (CCD)?
Over 180 of these are needed just to keep track of EBALDC’s money!
What are separate bank accounts?
The project includes 557 housing units (233 affordable), 500,000 square feet of office space, and ground-floor retail and commercial areas.
What is the Lake Merritt BART Station Redevelopment?
This British singer rehearsed in EBALDC's commercial property: SPARC-it-Place.
Who is Sting?
The EBALDC property with a larger-than-life mural of its senior residents on the outside of the building, installed during the COVID pandemic.
What is the San Pablo Hotel?
The program that trains and connects residents of EBALDC properties to take action to build healthy neighborhoods.
What is the resident leadership council?
This EBALDC managed residential property has the highest permanent loan must pay debt service.
What is Fruitvale AKA Casa Arabella ($1,077,291/yr)?
Who is Barbara Lee, mayor-elect of Oakland
Featured for Earth Day 2025 by ABC 7 News, this local advocate has a property at West Grand Ave and Brush St named after them.
Who is Ms. Margaret Gordon?
Known as “Cambodian Village” by the local AAPI community, this Oakland neighborhood was home to a vibrant mix of Cambodian, Latinx, and African American families—where 400 people celebrated New Year in the courtyard, noodles were sold from apartments, and a native healer kept a shrine in his living room.
What is Oak Park Apartments?
This unique out-of-school program based at EBALDC’s largest housing development, Lion Creek Crossings in Havenscourt, works with the local public schools to align their curriculum with school-day learning.
What is Lion's Pride.
This EBALDC managed residential property produces the most surplus cash.
What is Frank G Mar? ($460,456 in 2024; $670,850 in 2023)?