Equity Community Builders (ECB) and Emerald Fund have been selected by CCA to lead the redevelopment process based on their experience creating places that strengthen and contribute to community vitality. ECB and Emerald have assembled a team of awarding winning designers to help give shape to the dynamic vision for repurposing the existing campus.
Equity Community Builders (ECB)
ECB has over 20 years of experience in the adaptive reuse of historic buildings and cultural landscapes, working primarily with nonprofits to help them develop one-of-a-kind facilities. ECB is the proud developer of Girls Inc. of Alameda County’s Oakland headquarters, the Ed Roberts Campus, and the David Brower Center, among other projects, and has a successful history of working with CCA.
Website: http://www.ecbsf.com
Emerald Fund
Emerald Fund has 40 years of experience working in established communities to create mixed-use, transit-oriented housing developments that fit well within the neighborhood context. Emerald was recently awarded the best residential project in the country for its adaptive reuse and conversion of a 1970s era office building into residential apartments. In Oakland, Emerald Fund has worked on the West Oakland Urban Farm and Park, The Ellington in Jack London Square and The Essex on Lake Merritt. Emerald Fund, known to hold and operate the apartment buildings they develop for many years, currently owns and manages over 1,600 apartments.
Website: https://www.emeraldfund.com
SITELAB Urban Studio
Shaping the city from the ground up, SITELAB is an urban design and strategy firm built on collaboration, curiosity, and a diverse team that questions what is possible. They are a woman-owned San Francisco-based practice that operates at the intersection of analysis and inspiration. From big urban framework plans to small placemaking interventions and everything in between, SITELAB looks to communities to inform plans of action that are rooted in place.
SITELAB has led framework plans and design guidelines for many of the most complex mixed-use redevelopment projects that have been approved in the Bay Area in the past decade. Their documents are comprehensive and place specific, guiding the thoughtful integration of new development in their contexts – historic, cultural and ecological. In San Francisco, their projects include the 35-acre post-industrial waterfront at Pier 70 and 4-acre SoMA creative district at Fifth and Mission (5M). They have also led the 80-acre Downtown West project for Google in San Jose, which connects people to transit, to nature, and to each other at Diridon Station.
Website: https://www.sitelaburbanstudio.com/
Mithun
Mithun is an award-winning interdisciplinary firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. As a national practice with offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles, Mithun is a unified studio with an open and collaborative spirit founded on a process of inquiry and listening. Integrating architecture, interiors and landscapes with urban design and planning, Mithun designs innovative places that elevate the human experience. The company works in a wide range of typologies and scales, with a focus on urban environments and places where people live, work and learn.
Mithun’s breadth of experience in mixed-use multifamily planning and design embodies today’s values of health, environmental performance, economic sensibility, walkability, community connectivity and sense of place. Their holistic approach honors local identity – culture, history and ecology – with a reverence for that which makes each place unique.
Mithun creates compelling urban places by carefully considering the relationship of buildings, uses and the public realm – providing homes in the city and active ground floors that contribute to vibrant streetscapes. Mithun considers community engagement indispensable to their work and are effective at translating complex information into responsive and transformative design.
Website: https://mithun.com/
Frederick Knapp
Knapp Architects provides full architectural services and specializes in historic architecture, conservation services, research, and preservation consulting. Based in San Francisco, the firm has practiced throughout the Bay Area and California since its formation in 2006. In addition to preparing customary architectural documents, the firm performs historical research and analysis, provides planning services related to historic buildings and resources, and consults on entitlements and environmental review of projects involving historic resources. Knapp Architects also benefits from ongoing collaboration with allied professionals experienced in landscape history, engineering, building conservation, architecture and architectural history.
Frederic Knapp has 36 years of experience in architecture and historic preservation. Registered to practice architecture in California and Arizona, he has worked in all phases of architectural practice, from pre-design and programming to post-occupancy and forensic investigation.
Website: https://knapp-architect.com/
CMG Landscape Architecture
From the SFMOMA Rooftop Sculpture Garden to Crissy Field to the West Oakland Urban Farm and Park to the Facebook campus, CMG has a reputation as one of the most creative landscape architects in the Bay Area. CMG is expert at designing landscapes that draw people in to engage and enjoy the space around them.
Website: https://www.cmgsite.com