The East Bay shoreline is on track to get greener.
Plans have recently advanced to transform a former horse racing track in Albany and an industrial lot on the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline in East Oakland into waterfront parks. Together, the two projects could add 168 acres of public green space and shoreline access on the East Bay.
The projects are expected to plan for sea-level rise from human-caused climate change that could see Bay Area ocean levels rise up to 6 feet by 2100.
Storage Lot Makeover on the MLK Shoreline
The initial phase of the project on the MLK Shoreline in Oakland included adding 22,000 cubic yards of soil to raise the level of the area ahead of expected sea-level rise. The next phase will include a makeover of seven acres of land owned by East Bay Regional Park District that’s been leased out for decades, most recently to a trucking company for storage…