Building

The Building

• It's a 22,000 sq ft building, built as a meeting hall for the Ligure Club in 1933, on Shattuck and 48th. After decades serving as a social hub for members of the Oakland Scavengers club, appropriately enough, a garbage collecting collective, it was transformed into the Omni, a music venue featuring mostly heavy metal and rock that provides the namesake for this project.
  • Detailed drawings 1/11/96 by Rod Lamkey - Design Services
  • Floor Plan - Draft Proposal
  • Sketch of possible configuration of Sudo Room / Counter Culture Labs

Space Features

• a appx 4,000 sq ft, 2 story ballroom / event space with mezzanine
• an industrial kitchen & walk-in freezer (needs fixing up)
• a massive back room with capacity for vertical expansion
• 55'-ish ceilings
• massive basement with windows above street level (currently blacked out)
• a separate room that used to function as a disco (with lighted floor)
• a warren of odd little rooms, a stage, lots of bathrooms, skylights throughout

Distribution of Space

Tentative Distribution of Space (Not final, will likely change!)

• Sudo Room: Half bocce ball court room
• BAPS: mobile units - based out of a balcony room in the ballroom, having classes in unused space around the building as needed
• Timeless, Infinite Light: 2nd floor, Balcony room above bar, on corner of Shattuck / 48th (NE corner)
• HackerSpa Wellness Center: Cluster of rooms between bar and bocce ball court room
• Counter Culture Labs: Half bocce ball court room
• Food Not Bombs: Shares basement industrial kitchen & food storage area with cafe-bookstore, hopefully serve food too upstairs to the community - either in the cafe, or the ballroom, etc
• La Commune Cafe & Bookstore: Bar area
• Live Space: Disco room in back (NW corner)
• Oakland Nights Live: Uses ballroom area for performances, some storage in the building somewhere
• Celluloid Processing Labs: Part of the basement
• Creative Empowerment Project: Part of basement (screenprinting gear)

Use of Shared / Common Space

• Schedule-able shared spaces around the building
• Ballroom (scheduled mostly as per current Common room)
• Parts of the basement
• Bookstore / Cafe

Use of Space

• How do we envision using the space?
  • To collaborate on projects
  • To host classes and performances
  • To network, meet each other, welcome newcomers
  • To store resources for common use (or equitably restricted)
• Concerns about use of space
  • Will there be commercial activity in the space?
    • Yes, bookstore/cafe will operate as businesses
  • will profit-sharing be required of profitable endeavors?
    • Ideally, consensus can be reached that profitable endeavors can help to subsidize rent/mortgage/property taxes

Financial Information

See also Business Model for Omni's membership structure and flows of income and expenditures.

• Rental Terms
  • Expenses
    • Move-in Costs
    • Monthly Rent
  • Revenue
    • From Member Collectives
    • From Other Supporters
      • Loans
      • Donations
      • Grants

Legal Concerns

• Permits
• Zoning
• Licensing and Certification