East Bay real estate

East Bay real estate

In April, Harper, a retired San Francisco Muni driver, received an eviction notice stating she owed $93,000. A second letter later reduced that amount. "Something is not right. How can you go from $93K to $10K. At first, I'm concerned they have bad bookkeepers," Harper said. Now, the uncertainty has left her fearing to end up homeless "on the sidewalk," Harper said.

The Elmwood neighborhood's commercial strip could be declared a historic district if city officials approve a proposal backed by local preservationists and hundreds of residents. But to critics, the drive looks more like an attempt to thwart plans to build housing in the wealthy and exclusive neighborhood than a genuine effort to honor history.

The Grocery Outlet at NorthPoint Centre is set to open in late summer of this year, a Grocery Outlet representative confirmed to SFGATE. Earlier this week, an eagle-eyed Redditor posted a photo of a new Grocery Outlet sign at the location. In late March, Hoodline spotted construction barriers, plywood walls and banners reading “Future home of Grocery Outlet” at the site, indicating the store is under construction.

Recently, Disneyland filed building permits with the city of Anaheim for one of the locations named in DisneylandForward, the massive multiyear development plan that will likely lead to the company's third California park.

New Rochelle pursued the downtown overlay because its traditional zoning produced fragmented, underused parcels and left the city's core underperforming. We knew we had underutilized our downtown, Salgado said. City leaders saw stalled projects, aging buildings and surface parking lots where walkable, mixed-use buildings could go instead. They wanted a predictable framework that could attract serious capital while still meeting community goals on design and affordability.

U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon announced a $500,000 federal allocation for firefighters in Berkeley and several nearby communities to train together. Firefighters from Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Kensington, and Richmond have formed a consortium to share facilities and enhance training efforts.

To find a building with this scale, flexibility, and existing group housing use in such a prime location is extraordinarily rare.

One resident of Princeton's Western Section told the room, 'Those of us who own historic homes are subsidizing the community' - and was met with applause.

Disney secretly owns nearly all the homes on the east side of Keystone Street, creating a living picture of single-family paradise in sunny Los Angeles. The long run of houses, driveways and front lawns looks that way because the Walt Disney Company demands it.

The northeast corner became a symbol of Texas growth: prices soared, commutes stretched and master-planned communities stacked up so tight you could borrow sugar through the fence.