Eastmont is a neighborhood in

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

, the county seat of

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. It lies at an elevation of 95 feet (29 m). It was formerly an

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. The

Eastmont Town Center Eastmont Town Center is a shopping mall and social services hub located on bounded by Foothill Boulevard, Bancroft Avenue, 73rd Avenue, and Church Street, in the Frick neighborhood of East Oakland. The mall opened in phases between 1966 and 197 ...

shopping mall and social services center is located in the neighborhood, at 73rd Avenue where Foothill and MacArthur Boulevards meet. The name of MacArthur Boulevard was changed from Excelsior in honor of World War II hero General of the Army

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. On March 21, 2009, 2 blocks south of the mall, four Oakland police officers were killed, along with their assailant. This was among the deadliest attacks on law enforcement in California history."3 Oakland officers killed, one critically hurt", San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2009
/ref> Evergreen Cemetery is located there, and is the burial place for unclaimed victims of the

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mass killing.

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* Neighborhoods in Oakland, California {{AlamedaCountyCA-geo-stub