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Structure Type: built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels
Designers: Woollett, William Lee, Architect (firm); William Lee Woollett (architect)
Dates: constructed 1912-1913
7 stories
To provide seismic strength and fire resistance, architect, William Woollett, designed the seven-story Hotel Royal in reinforced concrete;
The building was last inhabited in the late 1990s.
The Bank of America along with Alan Dones, of Oakland's Strategic Urban Development Alliance LLC, purchased the building for $1.3 million and had hoped to rehabilitate it. Dones subsequently bought the hotel from the bank. Renovation of the building, however, would have cost $6 million to $11 million, more than the owner claimed to be able to afford.
Demolished in July 2004; it was razed to make room for Thomas L. Berkley Square, a $70-million, mixed-use development.
PCAD id: 6253
