Community benefits of Downtown development discussed at special City Council meeting

Berkeley City Council held a special meeting Tuesday to hear public comments regarding the city’s potential highrise development plans for downtown.
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Berkeley City Council held a special meeting Tuesday to hear public comments regarding the city’s potential highrise development plans for downtown.
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JBayer HealthCare will invest $100 million in constructing a new drug product testing facility at its existing manufacturing site in Berkeley, as part of an effort to develop treatments for hemophilia A patients.
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Last week, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 6 UC Berkeley professors and UC President Janet Napolitano.
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Berkeley City Council will consider a recommendation Tuesday that intends to provide residential developers with more incentive to build housing in the city.
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The campus announced the creation and appointment of a new faculty leadership position, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts and Design, in an email sent to the campus Thursday.
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The city is in the process of moving forward with plans from the Public Works Department to address a deferred building maintenance backlog of $16.39 million.
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If the MTC Administration Committee approves the proposal, the cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Emeryville, San Jose and Oakland will come closer to the implementation of new bike share stations, operational services and 7,000 new bikes by 2017.
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The city Landmarks Preservation Commission voted down an application to designate Campanile Way — and potentially, the view from the Campanile — as a city landmark Thursday at a public hearing. The application would have made the roadway from the base of the Campanile all the way to the Valley
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Two student candidates, campaigning on issues such as tuition hikes and partnerships with city government, as well as a satirical candidate — a hermit crab with a human proxy — are running for the ASUC office of external affairs vice president. The EAVP office is responsible for representing the ASUC’s position on
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A research team led by a campus bioengineering and material sciences professor has developed a chip with the capacity to simulate the human heart.
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