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-11 -t i I 1 i SUNDAY, Fabntary 22, 2004 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL 3 Hfl Few changes due at Preservation Park, despite sale LAIIPMAUm landmark district remains unchanged. and the new owners are obligated to keep up the properties to current standards. "The houses are all oa collected from different places. Once placement of the houses had been determined, contractors turned attention to such details as the picket fences with custom-crafted newell tops, benches and street lamps authentic rep- licas, and even Iron bollards (or posts), topped with ornamental "pineapples a favorite Victorian motif) set tn a protective ring around the water-splashed fountain. Plant-kflftf roses, fruit trees, and colorful and fragment ground cover soon added to the park-llke atmosphere.

Modern-day requirements also were addressed. Ramps, and railing for disability access were constructed, linking the houses together. These could have been an overpow- -erlng Intrusion, but thanks to a well thought-out landscape master plan, lushly creeping trumpet vines now cheerfully mask and soften the access FILE PHOTO THE EAST MY Asian Local Devetopmant Corporation is the new owner of Preservation Part. These currently Include headquarters budding on 8th Street, the Madison Street Apartments, Swans Marketplace In Old Oakland, and the Madrone -Hotel cm 15th Street According to staff reports. Preservation Park's status as a .1 ISITORS to Preservation Park are not likely to see much If any change to the downtown Oakland oasis once sale of the property Is completed as called for last week by a City Council vote.

The complex of 19 th century Victorian structures, home to three dozen nonprofit organizations, will be coming under the control of die East Bay Aslan Local Development Corporation. The $7 million generated by the sale will reportedly be applied to subsidizing a new housing development In the blocks near. Sears Department Store, In die so called "uptown district According to Library History Room foes, some 20 years ago what Is now known is Preservation Park was hodgepodge of move-on, dilapidated structures up on blocks a short distance from the newly opened Interstate 980 connector. Plans by the citys Redevelopmfcnl to rehabilitate, landscape and rent out the laded Victorians faced numerous- starts and stops, as well as sometimes seemingly Insurmountable politically Inspired roadblocks, lasting months, then years, files say. By the mid-1990s however, the problems had mostly been solved and the buildings were eventually leased to the nonprofit organizations.

Gone were the foundation blocks, the boarded-up windows and the weed-choked front yards. Community IfJJ KDS ft PARENTS Today OflCUS ARTS CNdnrfi Fanitod writ praM a ftotpaoad show of circuit $6410, 12:30 to 130 pm, 666 Bthvue Am, MtodL 46222591 FAMLYFOKDANONG-Anoppoilu-nity far fmhi to dm Mr hum out 1 to 230 pm, Adrians Mum mi Dm Community Ortor, 1317 SanPaUo Am, Malay, 63227131 CWMK- rARTB ft ENTBnAMCilT waM'- a Today JAZZ AND FUNK Tha Frank Matin Trio wl parform origin jazz and tank com-poatoi $124161 4:30 pm, Jamchool, 2067 Addaon St, Baritaiay, 6463373. BLACK HBTORY EVENT-Kirihu GUI in Jack London Spun wonioii ii rite a mf -J noon of noiuMOon mo wiMnnwi ra focua on cnaaoritanl program batman Amoriciind AMc, 11 London Squnt OriM Annaiet ALLEfL The rescued relics rep- -resented a "Victorian time-line of every variation of 19th and early 20th century archi-tectural style, Including Italla-nate, Queen Anne, Stick and Arts and Crafts. Five of the houses stood on their orignal lots fon the north aide bf what was once 13th Streets Placement of Ok others esme after careful evaluation of Oakland's historic street grid and pioneer-era street pattcron, By placing four ofth2 houses lacing Inward eMf from the nettbyfreewWtatei, a sense of enclosure mi MBSi macy was created, files. The graceful cast frbo'; bronze statue fountain "Diana," once a prominent ornamental garden from a historic lakeside estate, was 1 transported to the newly created nexus of the park's two "streets." This "turn In the road" made the project seem twice thesizeso that the park felt like a real neighborhood (al- belt condensed), not Just a collection of left-over move-ona, Calendar BLACK PANTHER PARTY -Dr.

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more Information. VleW images iff the houses and obtain event rental Information 1 online at www.preservadon-park.com. A well-illustrated book called Through These Doors: Discovering Oakland At Preservation Park" Is available at the Library History Room, or for sate by calling 874-7582. To learn more about the many accomplishments of EBALDC, now In Its 29th year, Sto www.ebaldc.org or call 7-5353. verSflfMess VbnivifttopworidoQlofyout 1.800.256.4646 IU 4171 Curing Moray 5137703800.

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