The fare mezzanine is located at the same level as the west parking lot; stairs and an elevator provide access from Adeline Street overhead.

[8] The activist Mable Howard led the effort to move the BART line underground; it would have divided the predominantly Black neighborhood of South Berkeley.

[9] The station design was controversial because it was not fully underground; the west side of the mezzanine is level with the parking lot.

Between 2008 and 2010, a portion of the east parking lot was redeveloped as the Ed Roberts Campus, which houses several regional disability-related organizations.

[16] The Berkeley City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with BART in December 2019 to begin planning for housing on the lot.