Officials approved a new Kaiser Permanente medical center on San Pablo Avenue after property owner Wareham agreed to give four months of free rent to several of its struggling tenants who have to move.
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Berkeley businesses may get ousted to make way for a parking lot for Kaiser
Wareham Development had plans to raze the businesses to create parking for a planned Kaiser medical office facility. ZAB said that is not the best use of the land and nixed the application.
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Developers donate to little-known Berkeley homeless fund
Some of Berkeley’s biggest developers, concerned about homelessness, have donated to the city fund. At least two of them did so while Berkeley was considering their projects.
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Kaiser Permanente looks to build new Berkeley medical campus
This week, the Berkeley City Council approved a West Berkeley zoning change for half a parcel that may allow Kaiser to open a new medical facility at Parker and 10th streets.
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Berkeley’s Fantasy Studios closure came because of financial struggles
When artists can record albums on their laptops, recording in a professional studio is now more the exception than the rule.
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Aduro Biotech leases entire West Berkeley building
Wareham Development has rebuilt on the site of an historic building at 740 Heinz Ave. as part of its Aquatic Park Center, an 18-acre biotech campus in West Berkeley. Photo: Wareham Development By Lisa Tsering A biotech company that did the largest IPO in Berkeley history has leased an entire West Berkeley warehouse and will […]
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When the stars come out: A Night in Berkeleywood
An image from Riding My Way Back, one of the films supported by the Berkeley Film Foundation. Photo: Riding My Way Back It’s 342 miles between Berkeley and Hollywood, but on Oscar night, Sunday, Feb. 22, that distance will be shortened for those who flock to the live Academy Awards telecast at A Night in […]
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The Oscars come to Berkeley at film foundation benefit
12 Years a Slave, one of the movies nominated for an Academy Award this year. The ceremony will be screened on Sunday, March 2, at Berkeleywood, a benefit for the Berkeley Film Foundation. Photo: oscar.go.com The Oscars are coming to downtown Berkeley this year for the first time with a glitzy new event at the […]
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740 Heinz project moves forward, sans historic walls
The Copra Warehouse at night. Photo: Ira Serkes On Tuesday night, a Berkeley City Council majority upheld a 2012 zoning panel decision to allow the construction of a new 100,000-square-foot lab building in west Berkeley. Thirty neighbors had signed a petition to appeal the Zoning Adjustments Board’s decision in September, taking issue with the project’s environmental […]
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Wareham: Preservation of historic factory too expensive
Wareham Development will demolish the seismically unstable Copra Warehouse at 740 Heinz Ave. to build a new laboratory. Photo: Ira Serkes Four years after Wareham Development proposed transforming a historic West Berkeley warehouse into a laboratory building, the company is seeking to tear down the entire structure instead of preserving two brick walls. Construction costs […]
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Berkeley’s rich tradition of documentaries finds support
"Sweet Dreams", a documentary by Lisa Fruchtman and her brother Rob, won the Berkeley Film Foundation's Saul Zaentz Award this year Lisa Fruchtman was at the Sundance Film Festival when she heard a story she knew she wanted to tell through film. It involved a remarkable group of women in Rwanda who, despite having their […]
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Berkeley filmmaker’s movie on Latino legal pioneer to air
Dolores Huerta, co-founder, United Farm Workers, former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg Abby Ginzberg gave up the legal profession decades ago, but never left it behind. A documentary filmmaker in Berkeley, Ginzberg has focused her lens on some of the best legal minds of the past 50 years. Her films […]