Rising directly above the bustling retail promenade of Emeryville's premier shopping district, Bay Street One was completed in 2006 as a pioneering experiment in modern "urban village" living. To build this 95-unit condominium complex, developers Madison Marquette and MacFarlane Partners had to literally and figuratively build on top of history. The site sits on the ancient footprint of the Emeryville Shellmound, a sacred Ohlone village later buried for decades beneath heavily polluting industrial factories. After a pioneering $10 million environmental cleanup, the developers constructed a massive retail and parking podium and placed these contemporary two-story townhomes directly on the roof. Today Bay Street One is a vibrant, historically complex residential community where residents step out their front doors directly into a bustling open-air pedestrian mall.
The entire Bay Street development sits on the former site of the Emeryville Shellmound, one of the largest Ohlone settlements and burial sites in the Bay Area. The decision to build a mall and housing over this sacred, ancient site remains one of the most controversial land-use decisions in Emeryville's modern history.
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