Located in West Oakland, The Black Panther is a groundbreaking affordable housing community that supports very low-income and formerly incarcerated individuals. Working with local non-profit Oakland and the World Enterprise (OAW) and McCormack Barron Salazar (MBS), MWA Architects designed this five-story apartment building with residential, community, and commercial spaces. The Black Panther is the culminated vision of Civil Rights activist and leader of OAW Elaine Brown, who, combined with MBS, raised $80 million for this development.
WaterSprout Designed and installed a greywater system that recycles the laundry water from the common laundry rooms to provide landscape irrigation water to the site. The system is estimated to save over 100K gallons of water per year.
