2022 October
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Splash Pad Calendar – October 2022
Splash Pad Calendar by Sheila McCormick October 2, Sunday, 2pm, *In Person* Oakland History Center. Listen, World! An East Bay Afternoon. Listen World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson became America’s Most-read Woman is a new biography of journalist Elsie Robinson, who got her start writing for children as Aunt Elsie in the Oakland Tribune. Authors…
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The 11th Annual Autumn Lights Festival Lights the Night
by Samee Roberts Art, nature, and urban gardening enthusiasts from all over the region will flock to Oakland’s Lake Merritt to immerse themselves in the 11th Annual Autumn Lights Festival, a one-of-a-kind interactive art experience that is always the talk of the town. Following last year’s sold-out in-person return, the wildly popular festival takes place…
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