Straddling the Emeryville-Oakland border at 46th Street, the massive concrete structure that houses Vue 46 originally hummed with the machinery of the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company. By 1971 the building became the consolidated headquarters for the Flecto Company, the famous inventors of Varathane wood finishes. When the era of heavy manufacturing faded from the corridor, this particular industrial relic was saved from the wrecking ball. In 2008 Laconia Development completed a striking transformation, building out and up from the original concrete shell to create a 79-unit residential loft community. Today Vue 46 stands as an award-winning example of adaptive reuse, blending its gritty, utilitarian bones with soaring ceilings and expansive windows for a new generation of urbanites.
The property sits directly on the border between Emeryville and Oakland's Longfellow neighborhood. Because the developers built outward and upward from the existing factory structure, the exact dividing line between the two cities is uniquely blurred across the complex.
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