The City of Oakland celebrated the opening of an EVgo fast-charging station at 519 Lake Park Avenue in Oakland with a news conference on October 12. Partially located on a sliver of Splash Pad Park east of the parking lot entrance, the public electric vehicle charging station features six 200kW fast chargers, capable of charging […]
Farmers Market Update – November 2022
by Dan Foster Gather for the Planet gala – We encourage you to visit the Gather For the Planet website to learn more about our December 3rd fundraiser to be held at the Swedish American Music Hall, benefiting AIM and the Center for Food & Agriculture. Christmas Tree Lot – The annual Christmas Tree lot will be arriving […]
11th Annual Autumn Lights Festival The Best Yet
by Sarah Van Roo The Autumn Lights Festival at the Gardens at Lake Merritt drew the curtain across its garden stage on Saturday evening, October 15. Over three evenings, 11,000 festival-goers enjoyed a peaceful, vibrant event. Families with young kids, the hip and hip-replacement crowd, and everyone in between mingled happily in the fantastic fall […]
Update on the Grand Avenue Complete Streets Paving Project.
By Celina Chan and Charlie Ream, Oakland Department of Transportation In case you missed it last month, the Splash Pad News shared a background article about the Grand Avenue Complete Streets Repaving Project led by the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT). This project focuses on Grand Avenue between Broadway and Elwood Avenue, a vibrant commercial […]
Grand Avenue Complete Streets Repaving Project
By Celina Chan and Charlie Ream, Oakland Department of Transportation The Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT) is working on many projects and programs to improve access to sustainable mobility options and improve safety throughout the city. One of these projects is focused on Grand Avenue between Broadway and Elwood Avenue. This portion of Grand Avenue […]
Splash Pad News – October 2022
Odds and Ends – October 2022
This is the third straight month that we’ve gone down the rabbit-hole created by “Howard” — the mentally ill, homeless individual who’s been creating havoc in the Grand Lake business district for a very long time. In this latest installment, we’re sorry to report that Urban Indigo is closing and moving to Castro Valley. Cynthia […]
Farmers Market Update – October 2022
by Dan Foster We encourage you to learn more about our Gather for the Planet gala and year-end fundraiser on December 3 to be held at the Swedish American Music Hall, benefiting AIM and the Center for Food & Agriculture. Market Participant Spotlight: Delightful Foods – Delightful foods isa natural foods bakery specializing in 19 favors […]
Will History Repeat Itself?
by Ken Katz The 580 freeway completed in the early 1960s was so well landscaped that Parade magazine named it the “Most Beautiful Urban Highway in the USA.” One of its major features was the addition of a small triangular park (separated from the freeway by Lake Park Way) with a pond as its centerpiece […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – October 2022
by Ken Katz If you currently do a Google search for Cycle Sports, a notification pops up saying that it’s temporarily closed and now owned by Trek Bicycles. Yesterday afternoon, when we happened upon the closed sign surrounded outside by multiple display fixtures, wood pallets and piles of cardboard, we were initially dismayed to learn […]