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Grocery Outlet Preparing Moraga Store At Rheem Valley Shopping Center
Grocery Outlet is preparing to open a store at 576 Center St. in Moraga’s Rheem Valley Shopping Center. According to KTVU, construction is underway, and the store’s opening has reportedly been delayed until early next year. A groundbreaking ceremony for the store was held in December 2025, according...
Grandview Independent
Odor across Richmond and San Pablo traced to Chevron refinery
A smell drifted across Richmond and San Pablo Thursday night, with residents describing it as anything from rotten eggs and sulfur to sewage. Today, the Bay Area Air District traced the hydrogen sulfide odor to an area of the Chevron refinery just downwind of its flares. The district’s
Willow and Hearth
Real Estate Agent Is Walking Buyers Through A Nineteen Thirty Four Spanish Mediterranean Home In Oakland That Has Somehow Kept Its Original Character For Nearly A Century
A real estate walkthrough out of Oakland’s Oakmore neighborhood is drawing attention for a home that looks more like a time capsule than a typical listing. In the video, @rolandosage […]
oaklandside.org
Allegations of favoritism and kickbacks at Oakland airport sparked investigation
This story was produced in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Journalism. For years, dozens of custodians at Oakland’s airport took home extraordinary paychecks, inflated by overtime. Some janitors made $200,000 or more in total annual pay, according to payroll records obtained by UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program and The Oaklandside. Overtime payouts peaked in 2023, when eight airport janitors took home more in wages than the city’s mayor.
Pleasanton Weekly
New tenants, expansions drive leasing growth at Bishop Ranch
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sunset Development Co. has reported an increase in office leasing activity at Bishop Ranch over the past year, driven by existing tenants expanding their space and new businesses moving into the San Ramon campus. The company earlier this month announced it has renewed leases...
SFGate
craftindustryalliance.org
C&T Publishing Acquired by Globe Pequot
Quilt and craft book publisher C&T Publishing has been sold to Globe Pequot, owner of Stackpole Books, a knitting and crochet imprint. C&T is based in Concord, California, and recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. “C&T is the leading publisher in quilting and sewing, and it keeps finding new ways to...
hoodline.com
Mystery Survey Asks Richmond Residents If Chevron Refinery Should Shut Down
A text survey circulating among Richmond residents asks them to consider a possible phaseout of Chevron’s century-old refinery and the city’s relationship with the company. The 33-question survey’s commissioning party remains unknown; people involved in local politics or activism who spoke to Richmondside said they did not know who sent it.
hoodline.com
Oakland's Pill Hill Project Balloons to 20-Story Tower With 334 Units
A development proposal for a tiny sliver of land in Oakland's Pill Hill neighborhood has ballooned once again, this time into a 20-story affordable housing tower with 334 dwelling units, alongside a residential conversion of the adjacent Saw Mill Furniture Building. The site at 3403 Piedmont Avenue sits on just 0.4 acres, wedged between Broadway, Piedmont Avenue, and Interstate 580.
bayareatelegraph.com
A 24,000 SqFt Office Park May Soon Transform Into 142 New Homes in Pleasanton
PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA – An office property in Pleasanton’s Hacienda Business Park could become a new apartment community with 142 homes, including larger units for families. Nonprofit developer BRIDGE Housing is proposing the project at 4780 Chabot Drive, where a three-story, approximately 24,000-square-foot office building currently stands. The preliminary...
Silicon Valley
Owners of downtown Oakland office tower suffer loan default
OAKLAND — The owners of a landmark downtown Oakland office tower are in default on a multimillion dollar loan, the latest failure to jolt a prominent downtown property. Documents filed on Oct. 21 with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office show that affiliates controlled by Swift Real Estate have an unpaid principal loan balance of $194.1 million for the tower at 1111 Broadway.
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CJ Johnson: The CEO behind East Oakland’s $135 million liberation park project
Carolyn “CJ” Johnson has spent more than 25 years around commercial real estate investment, where deals are measured in returns and timelines. When she talks about the project that now defines her work, though, she starts with where she comes from. “I am born and raised in East Oakland,” and I feel comfortable that we have been reaching out to folks who feel like they have a space.”
oaklandside.org
New Grocery Outlet opens in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood
Jorge Cossio was all smiles on Thursday as dozens of shoppers walked through the front door of Oakland’s newest grocery store, the Grocery Outlet that’s taken over Walgreens former building on E. 18th Street near Lake Merritt. Cossio, the shop’s owner, said this is his first store, although...
kalw.org
Oakland Measure FF: Closing a loophole in real estate transfer taxes
Oakland Measure FF proposes to close a loophole in Oakland’s current real estate transfer tax. Usually, when real estate is sold in Oakland, the City collects up to 2.5% of the sales price as a transfer tax. Currently foreclosed properties are not subject to this tax. If passed, Measure...
Grandview Independent
Richmond staff give council update on city finances, Chevron settlement
After city staff warned in September that Richmond's day-to-day operations ran $9.8 million in the red last year, City Council members asked for a second opinion. The report they got Tuesday left that year out. The presentation covered three years of audited results and
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Carolyn ‘CJ’ Johnson fights displacement for Black culture
Carolyn “CJ” Johnson has more than 25 years of executive leadership and commercial real estate investment experience. Born and raised in East Oakland, she is chief executive officer of Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation, which bridges grassroots mission with institutional grade asset performance. Her team is developing the Residences at Liberation Park, a fully funded, 119 unit affordable housing project set to break ground in late 2026.