Radiance Oak

Opened in December 2010, Radiance is housed in a historically classified mixed-use space, serving as a residence and private community center.

Radiance Oak Event Space, located within the historic Makins Produce Warehouse in Oakland’s vibrant Jack London District, offers a truly unique and captivating venue for your special occasions. As a non-profit organization, Radiance makes its space available for a variety of uses to friends and diverse community organizations, with a strict policy of non-commercialized focus. When necessary, Radia

nce has applied for and received special permitting for events. The space is often used by local non-profit and charitable organizations, and has been operating for 5 1/2 years. As a unique live/work space, the residents here are committed to making their household available for a variety of uses that support the Radiance mission: the cultivation of community, and creativity, and the improvement of our neighborhood.

02/14/2025

Thinking of sun on a rainy dreary day.

03/28/2018

Did you know that Radiance is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County as Makins Produce Company Warehouse???

This 160 acre Historic District contains twenty-four contributing buildings and one contributing structure.

02/17/2018

The big steel is coming in.

01/30/2018

A community effort to pick up garbage and trash throughout the Waterfront District near Jack London Square.

01/29/2018

In order to prepare the building for the seismic retrofitting, it was necessary to empty the entire building. Here's a look at Radiance ready for the next phase.

06/23/2016

04/26/2016

[about a week old]
On this rainy day I've been thinking about our dear girl Elaine - Smooch Es , who recently moved to a lovely new place on the Bay near Point Richmond. She's creating a new home for herself and Theo. I miss them terribly, and know it's been a good change. Elaine is sleeping better - to frogs croaking in the distance. Like the country and only 11 miles from noisy JLD, she says!

I look forward to her housewarming party, complete with pool and hot tub. I'm sure Elaine will get as many visitors as she cares to up there.

It was joyful living with Elaine and Theo (who made himself very much a housemate on equal footing, or at least paws). We all made a great team, kept a wonderful home, and did amazing things together. A housemate retreat to Mendocino where we all stayed in a big funky hippy B&B with hot tubs and towers. Many, many house meetings! Hosting great parties. Lots of shared personal and intimate moments.

Thank you Smooch Es for being such a major player and partner in Radiance. I admire and continue to learn from you. I'm watching you with joy as your life unfolds.

Love,

Dan

Address

278 4th Street
Oakland, CA
94607

Website

http://radianceoak.org/

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Our Story

As a vital, enduring event venue and gathering place, Radiance Oak provides an alternative and accessible physical location for new, powerful and beneficial forms of community.

Located in the historic Makin Produce Building, in the Jack London Waterfront Warehouse District, in Oakland, California, Radiance Oak is a unique property which has supported a wide variety of community gatherings and served as an art gallery and live-work residence over its 9-year history. We are a part of a growing, self-sustaining ecosystem of Oakland cultural development and ingenuity, and we are now embarking on a mission to convert our building to a seismically safe home for community use and creative works.

With an open space design on two floors, Radiance is configured to support a wide variety of community interests and needs.

We currently are seeking $150,000 for capital improvements to the 1928 converted produce warehouse in order to meet building codes for our approved zoning change - to Residential and Group Assembly. Required improvements include a major seismic retrofit of the brick and old growth redwood timber building, constructing a 1-hour fire safe corridor, additional ADA-compliant restroom and new staircases.