10/02/2026
Sen Lake Apartments held its grand opening on Friday!
We celebrated the 500+ partners and community members who helped us turn one of the last infill sites near Lake Merritt into 91 new permanent affordable homes and ground-floor retail.
“Sen” means lotus in Vietnamese, a symbol of resilience. The building was named in honor of Oakland’ s Little Saigon community and the East Lake neighborhood that surrounds it.
We’re thankful to have worked with two Oakland-based developers, The Unity Council and Jordan Real Estate Investments to make this project a reality!
Shoutout to our pre-development, construction, and permanent financing partners: City of Oakland, Oakland Housing Authority, Alameda County, CA Dept of Housing and Community Development, Strategic Growth Council, CA Tax Credit Allocation Committee, CA Debt Limit Allocation Committee, CA Air Resources Board, California Municipal Finance Authority, Enterprise Community Partners, Citi Community Capital, NeighborWorks Capital, Century Housing, Partnership for the Bay's Future, San Francisco Foundation, and LISC Bay Area.
Special thanks to the lead designer, PYATOK architecture + urban design, and general contractor, J.H. Fitzmaurice, Inc., and so many more, including our day-to-day real estate development staff, Omar Rivera Barrientos, Audrey Chau-Cuevo, Renee Geesler, and Leah Stockstrom, with supervision by Liz Probst, Aubra Levine, and Betsy Beros.
