"A longtime Berkeley developer says he wants to build housing at the former site of Oxford Elementary School, after the Berkeley school district accepted his $3 million bid to buy the property last week. Patrick Kennedy, owner of the development firm Panoramic Interests, was the only person to bid on the former school site at 1130 Oxford St. during an auction at the school board meeting Wednesday."
"Kennedy told Berkeleyside in an interview that he plans to demolish the school buildings, which he said are not reusable, and build homes in their place. Panoramic Interests is still in the early stages of studying what could be built on the property, Kennedy said, but he suggested the project could take the form of single-family homes that would appeal to young families or condos aimed at empty nesters."
Patrick Kennedy’s Panoramic Interests purchased the 1.26-acre Oxford Elementary site at 1130 Oxford St. for $3 million as the sole bidder. Oxford Elementary was vacated in 2020 after a report found the building vulnerable to significant earthquake damage, and the district began the sale process in 2024. The property includes two buildings, notably a three-story main building of about 24,000 square feet listed by Norheim & Yost. Kennedy plans to demolish the existing structures and study options for neighborhood-scale housing, possibly single-family homes or condos designed to fit the surrounding single-family neighborhood.
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