The Broken Rack reopens at new Greenway location
Honor Kitchen & Cocktails has been such a great addition to Emeryville, but it sure is lonely over there. The obscure but popular establishment
The Secret News breaks silence with city developer loan scandal
Welcome back Secret News! Emeryville’s first pro-resident news blog, started in 2008, has been on hiatus for nearly a year while editor Lillian (AKA Tracy)
Demolished Powell Shell Station to be rebuilt, integrated better with Bay Trail
Highway 80 commuters who pull off at the Powell exit to fill up at the Shell Station may be in for a bit of
East Bay Bridge Mall seeking update, Addition of Nordstrom Rack
Considering the massive yearly turnover in Emeryville residents (75% every 8 years is what I’ve been told), not too many of us current residents
Parkside developer at center of tenant protection battle
If Emeryville is ever going to reel in skyrocketing rents that are displacing not only low-income, but middle-class residents, they may want to keep
Emeryville Transit Center approved by Council
Like most contentious development projects that are approved these days, they generally come down to a 3-2 vote. The long-awaited “EmeryStation West” or Emeryville Transit
Emeryville Transit Center heads to Council vote despite Planning Commission deadlock
At the October 24th Planning Commission meeting, the Emeryville Transit Center development project or “EmeryStation West” was resurfaced. The resulting vote by the commission was a
Madison Marquette proposing upscale “Hyatt Place” at Bay Street Site A parcel
Last August, we reported that the plans to add a Macy’s to the Bay Street “Site B” area were officially dead. The site has
Public Market looking to Subtract Theater, Add Grocery Store as part of massive overhaul
The Emeryville Public Market has undergone quite a reinvention over the last few years. A quick recap: Then owners TMG Partners performed a four million
Sign the “Save Cafe Aquarius” Petition on Change.org
Sadly, an agreement between the landlord and Cafe Aquarius owner Patrick Feehan could not be reached and they will remain closed indefinitely. We held out hope
AvalonBay proposing 94ft./260-Unit rental development at Nady Systems site
Developers will present preliminary designs for a 260 unit, 6-level, 3,000 square feet Multi-Family housing project to the Planning Commission at City Hall this
Emeryville Braces for its annual Holiday Tradition: Traffic Gridlock
A former Emeryville City Manager famously commented that “We want to have a traffic problem” when Emeryville was of course more of an industrial
Emery Go-Round spotlighted on NPR Series “Commuting in America”
National Public Radio spotlights our very own Emery Go-Round as part of an ongoing series Titled “The Way We Get To Work“. A curious time
Turmoil at Emery Go-Round: Is the EBOT Streetcar the long term solution?
The recent elimination of Emery Go-Round Watergate service exposed citizens reliance on the “free” shuttle system and left residents up in arms (Its since
Pak ‘n Save Grand Re-Opening Set for November 16th
The Pak ‘n Save on San Pablo has really been showing its age. Built in 1994 with 1991’s Measure J funds and touted as
An open letter to the Planning Commission from the Warehouse Lofts Sherwin Williams Committee
A critical study session for the Sherwin Williams “Urban Village” project will be held at tonight’s Planning Commission meeting starting at 6:30pm at City
Novartis cuts 54 jobs, Disney shutters Pixar Canada
The Emeryville Community Services department finished off its popular “Dinner & A Movie” series with a showing of Pixar’s “The Incredibles” at Doyle-Hollis park on
So close, yet so far: The elusive dream of biking from E’ville to SF
Coincidentally, I was in New York during the 2005 transit strike. Mayor Bloomberg made a statement by walking the 1.1 miles across the Brooklyn
Latest Sherwin site plans draw optimism … skepticism
As the Sherwin Williams project wraps up its due-diligence period and transitions to its next stage of procuring entitlements, the reality of the impact of
Bay Bridge Bike-Pedestrian Trail opens to public
Emeryville and the rest of the East Bay were denied the extravagant Labor Day celebration that we were promised because of the fractured bolt
Proposal for Bay St. Macy’s dead, City seeks new ideas
The once popular Emeryville Flower Outlet shuttered its doors in 2006 and the building that housed it and other small businesses, demolished. The plan
New owners looking to reboot Public Market by recruiting “top bay area chefs”
If you’ve ever been to a true “Public Market”, then you may be disappointed with what Emeryville has to offer. Having recently visited Milwaukee’s
Emeryville earns highest Walkability-to-Affordability ratio score
The fabled Greenway across our city has stalled (I just got word that the Peladeau park plans have been delayed by another year), the
EBBC & BPAC looking for improvements at 40th/San Pablo & “Star intersection”
Anyone who’s ever commuted by bike to our neighboring cities of Oakland or Berkeley via San Pablo knows what a harrowing experience it can
