After six years of stalled plans, neighborhood groups and Safeway Inc. have reached a settlement on the renovation for the grocery store’s College Avenue location. Read More…
The grocery chain Safeway opened its new expanded store Friday in North Berkeley after a year-long remodel. Read More…
The proposed expansion of the Safeway at the intersection of College and Claremont avenues has a passionate base of support and an equally passionate opposition. Though opponents raise valid concerns, the specific details of the expansion show that the benefits outweigh the costs to the neighborhood and city. One of Read More…
Although he is billed as a mushroom farmer on the currently-airing ABC television series, “The Bachelorette,” Alejandro Velez looks nothing of the sort. Instead of toiling away in a field all day, the affable 25-year-old UC Berkeley alumnus spends his time in a West Oakland warehouse spreading knowledge about growing Read More…
Tonight marks the end of the Berkeley City Council’s summer recess — at its first meeting since July, the council will discuss work the city has done since then as well as preview legislation to be discussed over the coming weeks. Sarah Mohamed is the lead city government reporter.
The Oakland Planning Commission approved plans for the expansion of the Safeway on College Avenue last Wednesday, despite opposition from neighbors and the Berkeley City Council.
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At its meeting Tuesday night the Berkeley City Council evaluated the latest proposal for the Rockridge neighborhood Safeway expansion, with councilmembers and residents advocating against the expansion. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council has no jurisdiction over the Safeway on College Avenue. However, its members decided Tuesday to send a letter to the city of Oakland — which does have control over the property — urging it to heed Berkeley’s concerns over a proposed expansion. Council members, worried over Read More…
The Berkeley City Council addressed concerns Tuesday night over the potential greenhouse gas emissions and congested intersections that would result from the proposed expansion of the Safeway that closely borders Berkeley on the corner of College and Claremont avenues in Oakland. During public comment at the special meeting, community members Read More…
After allegedly demanding money from an Oakland Safeway supermarket about two weeks ago, a Richmond man is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail on suspicions of second degree robbery. Philip Taylor, 26, allegedly pointed a gun Sept. 3 at an employee behind the register at around 4:50 a.m. at Read More…
