Samuel Merritt University

Strada served as development manager for Samuel Merritt University (SMU), a 114-year-old health sciences university headquartered in Oakland, CA for their new flagship campus in downtown Oakland.  The SMU Oakland project is a state-of-the-art, 265,000-square-foot high-rise building with classrooms, labs, administrative offices and student amenities. The new SMU headquarters building provides educational and research space for SMU students and faculty and consolidates all of SMU’s administrative facilities in one location.

On behalf of SMU, Strada managed the delivery of the core and shell and full interior build-out of the SMU space.  The $240M project is a generational project for the university and downtown Oakland.  Construction commenced in May 2023 and completed at the end of 2025.