Hive Oakland

Amazing place, was here for a booking signing party same time the first Friday was going on. Nice what they did to this place. Oakland is coming back, I see why folks are moving from SF to Oakland.

The Hive is a mixed use commercial and residential property, built on top of a former Dodge dealership and other adjacent parcels. Long abandoned, these buildings attracted graffiti and blight. Their first tenant Impact Hub, is a co-​working space paved the way for young, progressive, urban thinkers. Several other businesses opened recently, catering to the new Uptown crowd.
People’s Barber offers haircuts and straight razor shaves. A nouveau Mexican restaurant, Calavera was opened by Chop Bar’s Chris Pastena and a new beer garden has opened up under the Drake’s Brewery flag. Numi Tea and Firebrand Artisan Bread are also tenants.
You may see wood framed condos popping up behind Drake’s Dealership, and more visible from 23^rd and 24^th Streets. This is rental housing developed by Signature Properties. If you like what you see at this $ 50M development, Signature is also slated to develop the Brooklyn Basin project off of 5^th Ave and Embarcadero over near Brotzeit Lokal. I expect that’s going to be Oakland’s version of SF Mission Bay.
Oakland is changing like a runaway freight train. You can’t stop it, so try to hop on board?