East Bay real estate

East Bay real estate

The Red Oak Victory, staged in a basin in Richmond's port, is one of the last known surviving ships built in the city during World War II. The floating museum is one of many sites from the era that honors Richmond's contribution to the war effort. Officials now hope to drive more visitors to the ship and some of its other sites by relocating the Red Oak Victory to an area they believe would have more synergy with other war era sites and public transportation.

There are not too many spaces where you can have folks gather without a permit and not be harassed by the police and other people, said Orobosa Ogbeide, the 28-year-old founder of Play2Win, the group behind the event, which drew more than 300 people. It was the quality of the park, the baseball fields were clean and safety was definitely a concern. We really wanted a positive vibe.

The intersection of University and San Pablo avenues, which tattered banners proclaim is named International Marketplace to recognize the area's many multicultural businesses, was once the gateway to Berkeley and its university for those arriving by ferry. More than 100 years later it continues to play that role for drivers coming off the nearby I-80 off-ramp. At its heyday, two movie theaters served the area, and it was home to a melting pot of immigrant communities.

The plan to build more than 700 apartments above the North Berkeley BART station took a couple of steps forward this month, as two nonprofits applied for building permits from the city to construct affordable housing developments at the site. But the timeline for construction of one of Berkeley's most closely watched housing projects has slipped by another year, according to a BART spokesperson.

Oaklanders often criticize the news media for focusing disproportionately on the horrifying or the scandalous. And let's face it: this is a complicated city with its share of challenges to overcome. At The Oaklandside, we're not immune to overdoing it on the doom and gloom. Yet so much to revel in happens here, too. Triumphs, progress, creation, and joy - thanks in large part to people in the city looking out for their neighbors, holding the powerful accountable, and building on their visions for what the city can be.

Hayward car enthusiast Jermaine Shaffer remembers the pothole on Hesperian Boulevard that used to slam his 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline to the asphalt, chipping the onyx-colored fender and hood that he put together himself. However, in the past five years, the city of Hayward has made strides to improve its most used and deteriorated roads, and Shaffer along with the rest of the East Bay's classic car community has felt the difference in his own smooth rides.

Palo Alto Networks has acquired this property to support future growth at our corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, a spokesperson for the company stated in an email comment. The tech giant paid $90 million for a 14.5-acre site at 3625 Peterson Way, according to documents filed on Dec. 11 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office. The site is fully entitled for a large office development where thousands could work.

San Pablo Avenue is a corridor in flux, with new apartment buildings rising where auto repair shops once stood and a diverse array of merchants working to foster attractive shopping districts in spite of stubborn vacancies. Now city officials are considering a set of zoning changes that could accelerate the pace of change, by allowing taller and denser housing developments that might bring thousands of new apartments to the avenue.

"This project has been in development since 2018, when our former Chancellor, Carol Christ, really took the initiative to create a new vision and future for People's Park," UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson said. "Through an extensive amount of community engagement and planning, [we] put together a very comprehensive plan to really meet the needs of the community. The nonprofit developer will now finalize the project's plans and will present them to the university."

Type Five's technology and systems allow homeowners to design the home to their needs, vastly simplifying the process, and getting a backyard home built in as little as 5-6 months. Earlier this year, Jeroen Dewulf and family built a cozy ADU in their South Berkeley backyard, making it easy for his in-laws to visit and enjoy longer stays with the grandchildren. The unit doubles as Dewulf's home office.