The Berkeley City Council approved Tuesday evening the building of the ice cream shop Dream, but on the condition that there would be no take-out window due to ADA accessibility concerns. Read More…
The public hearing surrounding the fate of Dream will go to a vote under the name of ZBA Appeal: 2401 Telegraph Ave, the intended site of the Dream restaurant. Read More…
History has a tendency to repeat itself in Berkeley. Imagine if Telegraph Avenue did the same thing on a microcosmic level: We could have two vacant lots positioned opposite one another (each with little hope for new construction) along with two age-old record stores (both experiencing waning business over the Read More…
Berkeley City Council accepted a zoning appeal Tuesday night 8-1, stalling a plan to develop a new ice cream shop on the corner of Telegraph Ave. and Channing Way, directly across from CREAM. Read More…
Ken Sarachan and the city of Berkeley have been entangled in conflict for years over the vacant lot on the northeast corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street, which Sarachan purchased in the 1990s. Read More…
The designs for a new project that would fill a long-vacant lot on Telegraph Avenue have been completed but will have to face some obstacles before any plans can come to fruition. Although it has been empty for about 20 years, the lot — at 2501 Haste St. — could soon Read More…
The vacant lot on the northeastern corner of Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue has sat empty for over 20 years, becoming a home for rats and trash and contributing to the decline of business along Telegraph. Below are architecture firm Kirk Peterson & Associates Architects’ plans for the vacant lot, Read More…
In Mr. Peterson’s letter to the Daily Cal dated Feb. 3, 2012 (under the title “UC must transform People’s Park’s legacy”), I noticed that near the beginning of his letter he uses the phrase “Anecdotally we hear…” and then proceeds to make a number of other bold and untrue statements Read More…
ASUC executives sent a letter to Berkeley City Council earlier this month thanking them for their decision to foreclose on the lien for the vacant lot on the corner of Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue. Adelyn Baxter covers city government.
Legislator discusses taxes, state funding and solutions I appreciate the thoughtful Sept. 20 editorial regarding the deep harm budget cuts and fee increases have caused to students individually and to the UC system collectively. As California continues to struggle through the recession, reduced state revenues remain a threat to our Read More…
