Major Story Breaking! Keep your eye on this. Chinatowns are posed to become a hotbed of development activity. In downtown Oakland's epicenter(no pun intended) is a market called SWAN's which was recently purchased and developed by an Asian conglomerate. Oakland has a thriving China Town which thus far has about 3 major condo developments either sold out or under construction. Oakland's China Town is about 3 blocks from the area I've been speaking about. I'm telling you this will be a hot market soon. Here is the story.