Elmhurst, a residential neighborhood in the southernmost part of Oakland, California, contains the Eastmont Town Center which opened in what year on the site of a 1920s-era Chevrolet automobile factory called Oakland Assembly?
Eastmont Town Center Eastmont Town Center is a shopping mall and social services hub located on 33 acre bounded by Foothill Boulevard, Bancroft and 73rd Avenues, and Church Street, in the Eastmont neighborhood of East Oakland. The mall opened in 1970 on the site of a 1920s-era Chevrolet automobile factory called Oakland Assembly. Architect William Pereira designed the building. It is physically almost next to, and by entry access a few blocks away from, the similarly sized Evergreen Cemetery.
History of Oakland, California The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the city did not occur until the Industrial Revolution. Oakland was first incorporated as a town in 1852.