About Oakland's Piedmont Pines

At the top of Piedmont Pines with a canyon view and an amazing bay view, a new construction sits awaiting a new owner. Japanese inspired modern design and soothing colors charachterize this home, over 3000 sq feet of space. This property, priced competitively is just a reminder of what kind of opportunities are out there for buyers. The neighborhood is peaceful, the pinetrees delicately shade the streets. Heaven for joggers and walkers and hikers.

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Introducing: Piedmont Pines, a woodsy neighborhood in the hills of Oakland, CA.

Piedmont Pines is one of the most desirable locations in the Bay Area. This is a residential district in Oakland, California with staggeringly beautiful bay views. It is generally bounded by Highway 13 (the Warren Freeway) to the west, Shepherd Canyon Rd. to the north, Skyline Dr. to the east, Castle Dr. to the southeast, and Joaquin Miller Park to the south. There are trees on every street-as the pines gradually die off, they're being replaced by California natives and oaks. Homes are nestled into hillsides along the twisty streets, and sidewalks are few. Of the homes in Piedmont Pines, '60s-style ranchers prevail, although there are a few Craftsmans, and Tudors scattered throughout. Two Oakland public schools are included in the area, Montera Middle School and Joaquin Miller Elementary School. There is no business section in Piedmont Pines. Some people, even some city locals, have never heard of Piedmont Pines and consider this area to be just another part of the Montclair district. Where you will find shopping, cafés, and restaurants are an easy jaunt away at Montclair Village, just down Mountain Boulevard..

This quiet, elegant neighborhood has a lot of character. By tradition, people paint a set of rocks at the entrance to Piedmont Pines with birthday wishes, wedding tidings, and other messages. Messages that are soon pained over with new messages.

Community members work hard together to constantly upgrade their neighborhood, brainstorming on the active neighborhood association's website about such issues as emergency preparedness, utility undergrounding, and lost orange tabbies.

Visit the Peidmont Pines Community Website to learn more about this district: http://www.piedmontpines.org/

I was thinking about what to blog today and I though that I would blog about something that tied in with yesterday's posting.

Yesterday I had mentioned that to our East is a vast expanse of open land and parks that strech all the way to San Ramon and Danville.

I want to mention today that we have a wonderful atttraction high in the Oakland Hills. The Chabot Space & Science Center is the third reincarnation of the Oakland Observatory. The first location was located downtown in 1883. The second location, built in 1915 was located on Mountian Boulevard in the Leona Heights neighborhood.

They have a fantastic IMAX dome as well as a full dome planetarium.

They have viewings through the space telescopes on Friday and Saturday nights. I am going to have to do that one of these evening.

Here are some links that I googled for you:

http://www.chabotspace.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabot_Space_%26_Science_Center

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Today was our Prudential Grand Lake office meeting. After going over the new listings, changes and closes we went on our Prudential tour of the Piedmont, Montclair and Grand Lake office new listings

*** Another great reason to list with Prudential ***

One of the homes on today's tour was over on Osborne Court in the Piedmont Pines area of Oakland. I noticed that many of the homes in the area ring true to W.R. Yelland as the architect for the tract!

I had never been up on Castle Drive before, but as I drove up the hill, there they were a whole grouping of Yellandesque designs. I just love being a Realtor and exploring areas I haven't been to before.

I have been in the proximity of this area before, because on the other end of Holyrood Drive is Ascot Drive and another known documented Yelland in that tract and in the neighborhood. The Hildreth Residence at 6165 Ascot Drive. ( http://activerain.com/blogsview/295972/Yelland-Expedition )

Back to my original suspicion that Yelland was working with developers, and not necessarily working only with custom homes.

If you remember from my earlier posts you'd have noticed that the architect's in-laws were named Holyrood. ( http://activerain.com/blogsview/348541/A-photograph-of-the )

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