EBASE works to achieve a "win-win" approach to economic development that makes communities vibrant and healthy places to live, work and play.  With the national Partnership for Working Families, EBASE is popularizing the community benefits model - the simple, yet powerful idea that the investment of public money and land in a development should produce tangible benefits, like real, living wage jobs and affordable housing.

We are focusing on two critical projects:

• The redevelopment of the massive former Oakland Army Base, with the potential to put Oaklanders to work in more than 6,000 family-sustaining jobs
• the expansion of the Bay Street shopping center in Emeryville, which could pave the way for community-oriented development.