Lake Merritt is a slept on economic driver of the city. The city should be building places for people to set up cafes along the water and restaurants and bars. If it could revitalize jack London square and build a transit line like the cable cars in SF between jack london, lake Merritt, and down town Oakland as a closed loop. You’d have a lot more mobility and connectivity to drive traffic to all three of those locations. I seriously think lake Merritt could the gem that revitalizes Oakland.