The home is situated on a quiet residential street in Albany, California. Most of the homes in the area are single-story bungalows built in the 1920s and 1930s. The residents, Ian MacLeod, Beatrice Moran, and their two children, were drawn to the location because if its proximity to a local high school, the main commercial strip in the city, and BART, the regional train system. Those walkability aspects factored into the overall GreenPoint score.