Construction To Begin On $52 Million Facility

OAKLAND, CA — Work is expected to start this fall at the Port of Oakland on the first building of the Seaport Logistics Complex, aimed to boost the port's capacity for distributing freight, port officials said Friday.

Site preparation on a 440,000 square-foot, $52 million facility at Maritime and 14th streets by Illinois-based CenterPoint Properties on a 440,000 square-foot, $52 million facility at Maritime and 14th streets will start in October, port officials said in a news release. Construction is expected to begin next spring, and the building is expected to open by summer 2020.

The CenterPoint facility will anchor the Seaport logistics center, envisioned as a transload center where shippers can prepare cargo for transfer from ships to trucks or rail.

"This is our future," Port of Oakland Maritime Director John Driscoll said. "The Seaport Logistics Complex will give freight shippers the opportunity to manage international supply chains right next door to the rail
yards and marine terminals where their cargo is transported."

The CenterPoint facility will be constructed on property that once housed a U.S. Army supply depot. The Army decommissioned its Oakland base in the late 1990s, and the Port received about 240 acres of the property. The plan eventually calls for a complex with multiple buildings for warehousing or distribution.

The Port opened a $100 million rail yard at the Seaport Logistics Complex in 2016. CenterPoint's development will be the first building at the campus.

— Bay City News; AP Photo - Ben Margot