Downtown Oakland
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Downtown Oakland the central business district of Oakland, California. Oakland's General Plan and the older zoning regulations, speak to the zoning boundaries, however from a land use, demographic, and commercial standpoint, many Oakland residents consider Downtown Oakland to be bounded by 6th Street on the southwest, Jefferson Street on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and Harrison Street on the southeast.
Downtown Oakland is sometimes expanded to include the industrial and residential Jack London Square, and the Lakeside Apartments District a largely residential neighborhood on the West side of Lake Merritt. It should be noted that these areas, while outside of downtown proper, are considered more geographically proximate to Downtown Oakland than to East Oakland or to West Oakland and are thus sometimes associated with Downtown Oakland.
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[edit] Land Use and Points of Interest
It is home to apartment and condominium dwellers, numerous retail businesses, tall modern office buildings, shorter mixed-use historic buildings, the hubs of AC Transit and BART, which has three underground stations, the city's official Entertainment District which includes the historic Paramount and Fox Theatres, nightclubs, and restaurants, the headquarters of Clorox, City Center, a portion of Old Oakland, and a portion of Chinatown.
Downtown includes a portion of the oldest part of the city. The area from the Oakland Estuary inland to 14th Street between West Street and the Lake Merritt channel was the original site of Oakland, and there are several 19th century houses scattered around the edges of downtown and in Chinatown.[1] The Oakland Museum are located on Oak Street near the southeastern edge of Downtown.
[edit] Higher Learning
Laney College, with more than 12,000 students, is located on Fallon Street near Lake Merritt. Other educational institutions include Lincoln University, a small business school catering mainly to international students, and a downtown office of Cal State East Bay. Oaksterdam University is located on 15th Street, a business college which prepares students for medical cannabis work. [2] [3] The original campus of UC Berkeley was located between Franklin, Harrison, 12th and 14th streets;[1] and the University of California system is currently headquartered in Downtown. Lincoln Elementary School, one of the few public elementary schools in the downtown of a major US city, is near the center of Chinatown. The Oakland School for the Arts, a charter school, is building a new facility surrounding the Fox Oakland Theatre.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Bagwell, Beth (1982). Oakland, The Story of a City. ISBN 0-9640087-1-8.
- ^ News Segment. KTVU Television, Oakland, California (January, 2007).
- ^ Lisa Leff (26 February, 2008). [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYHN4gdAHV9I6D8_eoKW7hbrxMFgD8V1H8L00 Higher education: Oakland class teaches pot growing Weekend trade school course teaching students to grow, cook pot booked through May]. The Associated Press; Oakland Tribune.
[edit] See also
- 10k Plan
- African American Museum and Library at Oakland
- Cathedral of Christ the Light
- List of tallest buildings in Oakland
- Oaksterdam
- Ordway Building
- Tribune Tower (Oakland)
- Uptown Oakland
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