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Glenview, Oakland, California

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name	Glenview
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settlement_type	Neighborhood of Oakland
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subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	California
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Alameda
subdivision_type3	City
subdivision_name3	Oakland
leader_title1	Councilman
leader_name1	Noel Gallo
leader_title2	Supervisor
leader_name2	Keith Carson
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area_total_sq_mi	0.66
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elevation_ft	272
population_total	5599
population_as_of	1 April 2010
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postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	94602

Glenview is a neighborhood in Oakland, California that developed in the early decades of the 20th century, mostly with mid-sized 2 and 3-bedroom craftsman bungalows. The neighborhood lies in the Oakland foothills, bordering Dimond Park on the eastern side of the district, and Park Boulevard on the northwestern side. The upper portion of the neighborhood sits on the west side of Park Boulevard and is bordered by the Trestle Glen neighborhood as well as the City of Piedmont. Park Boulevard, as the neighborhood spine, also serves as the local shopping node, with a number of convenience shops and several restaurants stretching a few blocks. To the south, the neighborhood is delimited by MacArthur Blvd and the I-580 freeway.

The compact street grid along with a good number of amenities in the vicinity (a park, grocery stores, a library, and a number of restaurants) makes the neighborhood highly walkable, with the site walkscore.com rating it "Very Walkable: Most errands can be accomplished on foot.". Per VisitOakland, "Glenview feels more like a very quiet Rockridge with a couple of good restaurants and well-manicured gardens. For trips further afield, AC Transit offers local and transbay bus service mainly from Park Boulevard and MacArthur Boulevard.

The neighborhood school, Glenview Elementary School, built 1927, was found to be seismically inferior by the State Architect and was demolished in 2017, except for the historic art deco facade. The school underwent a major rebuild which was completed by October 2020.

Demographics

Per the 2010 Census, there were 2,576 households in the neighborhood. Of these, 1,074 rented their unit, and 1,502 owned it. The neighborhood overall contained 5,599 residents of which 3,106 were female and 2,493 male. Relative to Oakland as a whole, there were fewer teenagers and young adults, while members of the baby boomer generation born from the mid-1940s and 20 years hence were heavily represented (as of 2010). With a size of 0.66 sqmi, Glenview has a population density of 8,500 persons per square mile, slightly higher than the citywide average of 7,500.

Glenview neighborhood, age distribution

Glenview neighborhood, race and ethnic breakdown

The neighborhood is more affluent than Oakland as a whole, with a median household income of $84,375 (versus $57,778 for Oakland) per 2016 data. Yet, an until recently relatively affordable neighborhood with many good family starter homes and ease of commuting to San Francisco, the neighborhood, along with large swaths of the East Bay, has seen its prices increase rapidly, to the point where Redfin, the real estate broker site, featured the area on a national list of "10 Hottest Neighborhoods to Close out the Year [2017]."

History

The neighborhood was subdivided around 1910 by the developer Wickham Havens Inc (in which Walter Leimert, builder of Leimert Bridge was an executive), and initially referred to as Fourth Avenue Terrace (east of Park Blvd) and Fourth Avenue Terrace Extension (west of Park Blvd). In the early subdivision maps, which doubled as marketing materials, the company attempted to entice would-be-owners with the prospects of good access to the city ("residence sites so close to the heart of Oakland that they should be classed as City, NOT suburban--It is but fifteen minutes from the center of Oakland by car line"). Not only could buyers get to the city via Park Blvd lines, but the early maps shows a second wider right-of-way for Key System streetcar route extension running between Wellington St and Hampel St. While this must have been part of the attraction for early buyers, this extension was never realized.

The district was largely built out by the mid 1930s. Seven out of 10 units in existence today were built before 1939. By the mid-1930s, in a report on creditworthiness of the neighborhood written for the Federal Government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation program which would later earn notoriety for fostering the practice known as red-lining or denying home loans to African American neighborhoods, local officials described the neighborhood approvingly as a "[h]omogeneous district of semi-modern and modern homes and cottages. Convenient to local transportation, excellent schools, and shopping district, in demand by better class people of moderate income."

References

"Living in Glenview Oakland".
"VisitOakland".
(11 Oct 2020). "Glenview Elementary makes a gleaming comeback".
"US Census Bureau, Census Block level data". US Census Bureau.
"B19013 Median Household Income in the past 12 months".
"Hot or Not? Redfin Reviews its Hottest Neighborhood Predictions and Identifies 10 Areas that are Just Heating Up".
(1918). "California Real Estate Directory-bulletin of Licensed Real Estate Brokers and Salesmen". California State Printing Office.
"Maps of Fourth Avenue Terrace and Fourth Avenue Terrace Extension.". Wickham Havens, Inc.
"Fourth Avenue Heights, Oakland : on sale by Wickham Havens Incorporated.". Wickham Havens, Inc.
"Table B25034 YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT".
"T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces".

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