St Clement’s Episcopal Church in the Claremont neighborhood is celebrating its centennial with a book on the history of the church. The church held its first service in a private home on Camino Real in 1908, and moved to its current building on Claremont Boulevard at Russell in 1909, according to the Claremont and Elmwood [...]
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Safeway’s plan for Albany store meets resistance
Safeway wants its customers to have a peak experience while shopping at its stores. Trouble is, many neighborhood residents seem to be skeptical of the impacts those “enhanced” experiences will offer. In recent years, Safeway has met tough resistance to its plans to transform its 1,710 stores into “lifestyle stores,” complete with in-hour bakeries, floral [...]
A new landmarked building in town
Berkeley has a new building of note after the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously on May 6 to landmark the YWCA building at Bancroft Way and Bowditch (pictured above). The building was designed by architect Joseph Esherick in 1958. Esherick taught at Cal and was the co-founder, along with William Wurster and Vernon DeMars, of Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. [...]
Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley home: From white to gray
Notice anything different? A new image of the architects‘ model for Mitch Kapor’s proposed home at 2707 Rose Street has emerged. Seems as though someone has had a change of heart on the exterior hue of the home.
High hopes for new apartment project on Shattuck
A new development of mixed-use apartments is set to rise at 2600 Shattuck Avenue after developer City Centric secured entitlements to build the $60 million project. The hope is that the development — which will include 155 units, a 188-spot parking garage and 19,600 square feet of retail space – will revitalize something of a dead zone in [...]
Pick of the listings: Newly revamped on Stuart Street
Someone may get in touch with me to point out some obvious flaw I have failed to notice on this listing, but it seems this remodeled lemon-yellow home on a corner lot at 1801 Stuart Street, might be worth a second glance. Three bedrooms, and two baths, and a total 1,811 sq ft, a good-looking [...]
Welcome to Berkeley Mr Kapor: Appeal is voted down
Software mogul Mitch Kapor can crack open the champagne. At last night’s City Council meeting Berkeley’s council members voted to reject the appeal on his approved application to the Zoning Application Board to build a new home in our city. His plan for a contemporary, 6,478 sq ft house at 2707 Rose Street now has the green [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 4.27.10
Berkeley Art Museum shortlists three architects for new building revamp [Curbed SF] Three former Cal players sign up with the Dallas Cowboys [ESPN] Berkeley Rep export “American Idiot” tops Broadway box office [MTV] Taxi driver arrested for assaulting women in Berkeley [Berkeley Voice] Cal student shows Apple products shares better investment than shares products [Seeking [...]
Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley home: Countdown to appeal
Item 17 on the agenda for tomorrow’s City Council Meeting is bound to draw crowds. It concerns the appeal to the zoning board’s approval for a new home to be built at 2707 Rose Street. The application was made in the name of Mitch Kapor and his wife Freada Klein. You can read all about the application and [...]
Room with a view: Demolition in action
Mimi Mugler, a programmer at CalAgenda, has a front-row view of the demolition work going on at the old California Department of Health Services building on the block embraced by Berkeley Way, Hearst, Oxford and Shattuck. “My office is across the street. Two enormous bulldozers, one digging stuff out, the other right now dropping scrap metal [...]
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