Fruitvale station

The Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California, is part of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) network and has been considered one of the more successful transit-oriented development projects. The station is known to anchor a vibrant community and neighborhood capable of fulfilling the daily needs of its neighborhoods and helping to develop a sense of community in the surrounding area. This includes vendor stalls outside the station selling fresh produce, music, or handicrafts, among other things, and food trucks where people can enjoy fresh food.

Fruitvale Station is named for the mostly apricot and cherry orchards in the area during the late 1800s. Service at Fruitvale Station began on September 11, 1972, and the area around the station would be redeveloped from a parking lot into a mixed-use "transit village," which serves as a model for other transit-oriented development plans in other areas of the Bay Area. An acknowledgment, of sorts, of the part the station has played in the local community is the movie named for the station, Fruitvale Station, based on a real unarmed police shooting that took place at the station in January 2009.