Ambitious plans to rebuild the north end of Telegraph with a new street plaza and bus-only lane have stalled as the project faces a major funding shortfall.
Telegraph Business Improvement District
Posted inCity
Police will ticket drivers to curb rampant double-parking on Durant
The street has grown increasingly clogged with motorists double-parking on both sides of the one-way street just east of Telegraph Avenue.
Posted inCity
Telegraph Avenue redesign gets green light from Berkeley City Council
Plans call for a new bus lane along four blocks of Telegraph near UC Berkeley, plus a new curbless, plaza-style design for the avenue.
Posted inCity
City backs bus lane for Telegraph Avenue, but merchants aren’t on board
Dramatic changes at the northern end of Telegraph Avenue would be part of an $8.3 million redesign of streets near UC Berkeley.
Posted inCity
New push for Telegraph bus lane seen as step toward car-free future
Officials are considering plans to redesign four busy streets near UC Berkeley. City leaders rejected an effort to add bus lanes to Telegraph more than a decade ago.
Posted inBusiness
The vaccine ‘will not mean back to normal.’ How 3 businesses rose to the challenge of COVID-19
These business owners switched from building phone booths to sneeze guards, designed a user-friendly testing kiosk and created a “cleanroom” for customers.
Posted inCity
TBID’s Stuart Baker bids a fond farewell to Telegraph Avenue
After 4.5 years leading Telegraph Avenue’s merchants association, Stuart Baker has stepped down from the role to take a well-deserved break.
Posted inCity
New program will let Telegraph Avenue ‘ambassadors’ rent rooms at the YMCA
In the pricey Bay Area an employer is using guaranteed housing as a retention strategy.
Posted inBusiness
New zoning codes make it easier — and faster — for businesses to open in Berkeley
For many, an over-the-counter zoning certificate may be all that’s needed now, rather than going through public hearings and paying thousands of dollars.
Posted inCommunity
Latest plan calls for pedestrian-oriented Telegraph Avenue
A Sundays on Telegraph event in July 2014: the Telegraph Public Realm Plan proposes changes to make the storied avenue more pedestrian-oriented. Photo: Daniel Levine To glimpse Telegraph Avenue as its visionaries and community leaders see it is to view a thriving, bustling European-like utopia, complete with pedestrian plaza, solar-powered trash cans, and enough parklets […]
Posted inCrime & Safety, Fire
Dwight Way fire may have caused $1M in damage
Firefighters climbed onto the roof to fight a two-alarm fire on Dwight, near Telegraph, on Sunday. Photo: David Yee A fire in Berkeley’s Southside neighborhood on Sunday may have caused $1 million in damage, authorities said this week. The fire, at 2449 Dwight Way in the Chandler apartment building, appears to have started in a fourth-floor […]
Posted inBusiness
Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
A Sundays on Telegraph festival. The Telegraph Business Improvement District announced at its annual meeting that there will be fewer Sundays on Telegraph festivals this summer than in years past. Photo: Ted Friedman TELEGRAPH MERCHANTS MEET NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Members of the Telegraph Business Improvement District (TBID) gathered June 29 to meet their new executive director, Stuart Baker, and […]