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Recent News
The City of Emeryville is hoping to bring the growing sport of electric scooter racing to the streets of Emeryville. The eSkootr Championship Race
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Shake Shack has announced the Grand Opening date of their highly anticipated Bay Street Emeryville location. The Emeryville Shake Shack will be their third
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Our periodic aggregate of business-related stories pertaining to Emeryville. The tone of this collection of stories is rather dismal as, like many Bay Area
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Emeryville’s latest Children’s park was recently unveiled to the public. The small play area just to the west of the Watergate complex was over
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Emeryville City Council returned to in-person meetings for the first time in three years on Tuesday. The Covid-19 State of emergency will officially end
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An unprecedented nine applications were submitted for the vacant Emeryville city council seat prior to last Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Council opted to fill
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Our periodic aggregate of business and other newsworthy stories overlapping Emeryville includes pieces from The San Francisco Business Times, The East Bay Times and
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Some local food & drink news since our last update in January. Most of the recent news has been around Bay Street as they
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Tyler James Hoare affectionately known by some as “The Red Baron” passed away on Tuesday, January 31. He was 82 years old. Hoare’s biplane
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Sacramento-founded Tipsy Putt held the ground opening of their Bay Street location on Tuesday January 31. This happened despite a moving truck taking out
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The application period to fill a vacant Emeryville City Council seats is officially open. The vacancy came about as a result of second term
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Emeryville Police Officers responded to the 4400 Block of Shellmound Street near IKEA for a report of a vehicle colliding with a pedestrian at
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We’ve previously spotlighted the California Zephyr trip to Chicago from Emeryville’s unsung Amtrak station. The scenic, 2-1/2 day trip takes you through seven states
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The developers of the proposed 54-unit “Trader Vic’s” housing project abruptly withdrew their plans on Tuesday. A variety of concerns were raised by neighbors
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Change is afoot at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville as the first of a wave of new restaurants opened this week. This also
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Representatives from Berkeley-based Trachtenberg Architects hosted a neighborhood meeting on Monday to review plans for a proposed multi-family housing project on the property currently occupied
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The Emeryville Police are asking for assistance from the public identifying a vehicle and driver that they say “intentionally collide with a pedestrian” yesterday.
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Some local food & retail news since our last update in November including saying goodbye to the area’s first modern craft brewery, an update
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Crime & Public Safety
Emeryville Police Officers responded to the 4400 Block of Shellmound Street near IKEA for a report of a vehicle colliding with a pedestrian at 1:17 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The victim was treated on the scene for injuries by the Alameda County Fire Department
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The Emeryville Police are asking for assistance from the public identifying a vehicle and driver that they say “intentionally collide with a pedestrian” yesterday. According to am EPD press release, on Thursday January 05, at approximately 6:17 p.m.,
Food & Drink
Some local food & drink news since our last update in January. Most of the recent news has been around Bay Street as they ramp up their revitalization efforts. The Public Market is also making some noise as they announced two recent additions. In
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Change is afoot at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville as the first of a wave of new restaurants opened this week. This also meant the end of some old favorites that had been around since the shopping
Planning & Building
Representatives from Berkeley-based Trachtenberg Architects hosted a neighborhood meeting on Monday to review plans for a proposed multi-family housing project on the property currently occupied by Trader Vic’s. The proposed development is tightly sandwiched between Anchor Drive and the shoreline and closely abuts the western
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A trio of development news in/near Emeryville including new plans for redeveloping the Bay Bridge Center that was recently fenced off. In addition, the acquisition of the SAE Expression campus by Longfellow Real Estate Partners has cast uncertainty
Local Business
Sacramento-founded Tipsy Putt held the ground opening of their Bay Street location on Tuesday January 31. This happened despite a moving truck taking out a portion of their outdoor patio a day prior. “The driver did not have a tee time!” they tried to
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It was the end of an era in Emeryville today as Rudy’s Can’t Fail Café announced their permanent closure. “With a heavy heart, the ownership of Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe has decided to permanently close operations effective immediately.”
History
Anna Yates adorns Emeryville Unified’s K-8 school and most residents are familiar with her name. But very little is known or has been written about her. We’ve been able to piece a bit of a snapshot of her life using newspaper archives, city directories
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Tyler James Hoare affectionately known by some as “The Red Baron” passed away on Tuesday, January 31. He was 82 years old. Hoare’s biplane sculptures were a fixture of the Emeryville and Berkeley shoreline for decades delighting generations
