Oakland artists buy the right to stay put as development rises up around them
Members of a charmingly ramshackle community called Shadetree have pulled off the seemingly impossible as the Brooklyn Basin development rises up around them.
Real Estate
UC Berkeley opens new dorm named for first tenured African-American professor
The new eight-story building is named for David Blackwell, a mathematician and statistician who was hired in 1954. He was a very popular professor, too.
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Home Truths: The East Bay real estate market is firing on all cylinders
[Sponsored] Real estate prices in the inner East Bay have been rising consistently for the past seven years, but buyers are buying homes in increasing numbers.
Architecture
Recent Stories
The future of the Ashby BART parking lot is in flux
About 100 people came to a community meeting Thursday to call for affordable housing development and the preservation of the Berkeley flea market.
How Assembly candidates Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks differ on housing issues
While the two candidates for District 15 share some policy positions, they diverge when it comes to one of the most polarizing issues.
Berkeley zoning board says latest 2701 Shattuck proposal is ‘still excessive’
A proposal for a five-story, 57-unit building in South Berkeley has come back in its latest iteration after a failed attempt in 2013 to get city approval.
Updated ‘Enclave Dormitory’ plans get green light from Berkeley zoning board
A UC Berkeley graduate student dormitory at Telegraph and Haste got its latest approval from the zoning board Thursday, and appears — at long last — to be moving forward.
UC Berkeley looks to develop ‘Upper Hearst’ with housing, classrooms
The project, in its early stages, includes an academic building for the Goldman School of Public Policy and housing for students and faculty.
