OAKLAND — The long-stalled Oak Knoll mixed-use village proposed for the East Oakland hills is pushing ahead with a new development manager that has crafted a strategy to transform the project’s visions into reality.
After decades of delays, the development is poised to produce more than 900 homes, along with shops, restaurants, offices, a grocery store and open spaces.
For nearly 30 years, East Bay residents and Oakland officials have pondered the prospect of a new neighborhood on the site of the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
Instead of a lively new neighborhood, however, chain-link fences and largely fallow hillsides have remained the primary features of the property at 8750 Mountain Rd., near the interchange of Interstate 580 and Keller Avenue…