Overflow crowd favors keeping Schilling Garden
A standing-room-only crowd at today’s Public Works Committee meeting heard city-staff justifications for turning down the garden’s donation, under close questioning from city council members. =>...
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Yes on Measure N for the branches and a new cultural hub
Naomi Schiff, president of Oakland Heritage Alliance, supports Measure N in order to provide long-overdue improvements to the branch libraries and more space for Main, while creating a vibrant...
View ArticleProposal submitted to develop Ninth Avenue Terminal
A development partnership has submitted a proposal to reuse the older half of the Ninth Avenue Terminal at the Oak-to-Ninth site. The reuse would house a combination of winemaking businesses, a...
View ArticleSidebar: Who is Joe O’Donoghue?
Sidebar: Who is Joe O’Donoghue? [Editor’s note: This is a sidebar to “An emerald view or a gaze through a Coke bottle fragment?”] => Read more!
View ArticleAn emerald view or a gaze through a Coke bottle fragment?
The recent meeting sponsored by the developers of the proposed 42-story development that would sit on the site of the historic Schilling Garden was more a display of rhetoric than reasoned discussion....
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Tour great Victorians this Sunday!
Join Oakland Heritage Alliance (OHA) this Sunday for its annual home tour. This year’s tour—Seeing San Antonio Anew—is a wonderful opportunity to experience a part of Oakland that is rarely on tour....
View Article42-story scoping sessions loom over Schilling Garden
The City will prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) regarding a proposal to build a 42-story condo building on the site of the historic Schilling Garden near Lake Merritt. The City invites...
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