Oakland is an officially recognized neighborhood of Atlanta consisting of only four blocks. It is bounded by:

• the Downtown Connector freeway on the west, across which is Downtown Atlanta and the Georgia State Capitol building
• Grant Street on the east, across which is one block of the Grant Park (Atlanta) neighborhood and then the historic Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and the Grant Park (Atlanta) and Capitol Gateway neighborhoods on the south
• the MARTA east-west rail line on the north^[1]

Oakland contains the disused Corey smokestack; Mattress Factory Lofts, site of the former Southern Spring Bedding factory, with some buildings built as far back as 1864;^[2] and Crown Candy Lofts.