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Renderings Revealed, Meeting For SMU Building At 525 12th Street, Downtown Oakland



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON MARCH 22, 2022

New renderings have been published ahead of tomorrow’s meeting regarding 525 12th Street, a ten-story urban infill poised to expand the institutional capacity of Samuel Merritt University in Downtown Oakland. Strada Investment Group is responsible for the application.

The 167-foot tall project will create 225,000 square feet above a below-grade 21-car garage and a 1,900 square-foot cafe. The interiors will include traditional classrooms, specialty laboratories, workspaces, and collaboration rooms. Amenities will include a terrace, campus store, study rooms, a counseling center, and a tenth-floor terrace. The top two levels will consist of a library and maker space. Administration rooms will be connected for various needs for SMU, including the College of Nursing Department of Technology, the president’s office, and a board room on the top level.





Construction will fill in a vacant 0.86-acre lot in the city center. The project will be between the 1111 Broadway office building’s public open plaza and the residential building at 1150 Clay Street. The 12th Street BART Station and BRT line is two blocks away on Broadway.

Samuel Merritt University is an Oakland-based private university founded in 1909 and currently has 1,600 enrolled students. It is presently headquartered at 3100 Telegraph Avenue, with other footprints in Fresno, Sacramento, and San Mateo. The institution is affiliated with Sutter Health Network and Alta Bates Summit Medical center. According to the project application, “The proposed tower at Oakland City Center is designed to be the home and new main campus of Samuel Merritt University, a health sciences university educating highly skilled healthcare practitioners to positively transform the experience of care in diverse communities.”

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