The property has hosted everything from a mattress store to an overflowing artist warehouse. Now, as its owners prepare to sell the site, its future is in question.
BrasArte on San Pablo Avenue has been throwing the festival for more than 20 years. About 200 to 300 people attend annually.
Rather than functioning as an alternative route for Interstate 80, San Pablo needs to serve the people who live, work, shop and go to school in our community.
45,000 new households and 33,000 new jobs are forecast to be coming to the San Pablo corridor by 2040. Two counties, 7 cities, 12 miles and at least a dozen years: all are factors in preparing the area for that growth.
Officers confiscated two loaded guns and a BB gun, and arrested three people, during several incidents in West Berkeley on Saturday, authorities report.
After the 50-year-old barbecue restaurant reopened in a new location, abutting neighbors began to complain about incessant odor and smoke.
Police have arrested a man they say used a replica gun to take a laptop from someone at a West Berkeley business Wednesday evening.
The assailant asked for a cigarette before the attack, according to a coworker.
A robber smashed the window of a truck and stole a backpack while its owner pumped gas nearby, authorities in Berkeley report.
Police are trying to find the occupants of a vehicle that passed a woman lying on San Pablo Avenue in December after she was beaten unconscious, left in the street and run over.
Two women, a housewife and a waitress, have been charged with attempted murder after the beating that sent a third woman to the hospital in critical condition Monday.
Two unrelated crashes in Berkeley kept first responders busy Monday night, and sent a man on a bike and a female pedestrian to area hospitals for treatment.
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