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The Bay Area is an urban jewel… See sights… Experience culture.

Retirement is an opportunity to live differently - Welcome to a new way of urban living. It all comes together at Barbary Lane Communities.

No sitting around at home waiting for something to do at home for you, unless you want to just relax and kick back. At Barbary Lane Communities our doors are always swinging open to take you places, to tempt you with new adventures and you’ll have loads of fun along the way. Gather some friends and schedule the house town car for a trip, hop on BART to San Francisco or Berkeley Rep, take one of our daily van trips around town. Where do you want to go today?

What’s nearby you ask?

The Gold Coast neighborhood is anything but your ordinary neighborhood. Barbary Lane is ideally located within walking distance of 2 BART stations - 19th Street & Lake Merritt, Starbucks, Long’s Drugs, Kinko’s, three weekly farmer’s markets, Oakland Museum, Laney College, Whole Foods, Paramount and Fox Theaters, Oakland Main Public Library, Sears, China Town, City Hall, City Center Pedestrian Mall, and just minutes to world class healthcare at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Kaiser Hospital and more. And we are centrally located in the heart of the Bay area with easy freeway access to 880, 980 and 580. And Barbary Lane is only 20 minutes to Oakland’s International Airport.