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Huge Changes Coming to Popular Market in Pleasant Hill

PLEASANT HILL, CALIFORNIA — A popular neighborhood grocery store in Pleasant Hill is temporarily closed, but there’s good news for longtime customers: the store is preparing to reopen with a new name and another round of renovations. Pleasant Hill Market, located at 2397 Pleasant Hill Road near Gregory...

Pleasant Hill, CA · 3d
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The Daily Spin

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Costco closes popular California warehouse location after 37 years

Costco shoppers in California will need to shift their habits as one location closes and a brand new one opens. After 37 years, Costco in Vallejo, CA, has closed to make way for a brand-new, much larger location just one mile away. Not a closure but an expansion When

Vallejo, CA · 4d

San Francisco Chronicle

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‘We expanded too quickly.’ Bay Area doughnut favorite to close half its shops

Johnny Doughnuts, known for nostalgic creations made with high-quality ingredients, is shutting down three of its six Bay Area locations.

San Francisco, CA · 5d

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Berkeley Marina hotel suffers loan delinquency as foreclosure looms

BERKELEY — A big hotel next to the Berkeley Marina has suffered a default on its real estate loan and now could face foreclosure if the owner fails to cure the delinquency. The 378-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Berkeley is in default on a $52.5 million loan it received in 2017, documents filed on Nov. 12 in Alameda County show.

Berkeley, CA · 1d
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San Francisco Chronicle

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A customer loved this Bay Area babka. So he took over the bakery

Babka specialist Braid Bakery has a new owner, a fresh outpost in Berkeley and plans to expand.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

whatnow.com

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American Eagle Outfitters To Open At Broadway Plaza

American Eagle Outfitters is preparing to open a new store at Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek, according to the shopping center’s online directory. The retailer currently appears under the coming-soon category on the mall’s website. An opening date and additional details about the upcoming storefront have not yet been announced.

Walnut Creek, CA · 1d

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Meet the renting rich: Bay Area millionaire renters have quadrupled since 2020

The number of Bay Area tenants who earn $1 million or more a year has nearly quadrupled since the pandemic as young residents get rich faster than ever before in a housing market where demand far outstrips supply. Call it the rise of the renting rich. The number of millionaire...

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 1d

KRON4 News

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Salt & Straw opens first location in Oakland

(KRON) — Popular ice cream chain, Salt & Straw is now open in Oakland. To celebrate the Grand Opening of Oakland’s first Salt & Straw, the shop featured two exclusive flavors you can only get at the Oakland location. “Calabrese with Honey Butter Rolls” which is a Calabrese spiced ice cream with whipped honey butter […]

Oakland, CA · 1d

The Garden Magazine

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Sweet Proteins Brewed in Tanks Could Cut Sugar in Food, and Amyris Wants In

Emeryville, Calif. – Amyris, Inc. announced on November 12 that it will acquire Oobli, a California company that uses fermentation to make ingredients for sugar reduction. ([1])The deal combines a biomanufacturing company with a small firm focused on a specialized class of sweeteners. Food brands are looking for ways to trim sugar without losing taste,...

Emeryville, CA · 1d

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Move to San Francisco, Elon; we seem to love billionaires here

Now that Texas has become a state governed by Democrats, after you spent a small fortune to prevent their takeover of the Lone Star State, you might want to leave your properties in Boca Chica and Austin and move back to the Bay Area. San Francisco remains a haven for...

San Francisco, CA · 2d

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Finding Direction: Aliyah Yang’s Leadership Development Center Experience

When 15-year-old Aliyah Yang, a rising sophomore from Moraga, Calif., applied to attend the American Red Cross Northern California Coastal Regional Leadership Development Center (LDC), she wasn’t sure what to expect. “I was excited because I got accepted,” she said. “But I also thought, ‘What if it’s super boring?...

Moraga, CA · 1d

Robb Report

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Art Dealer Rena Bransten’s Longtime San Francisco Home Hits the Market for $8.8 Million

Throughout her five-decade career, gallerist Rena Bransten reshaped San Francisco’s contemporary arts scene by legitimizing craft-based mediums, advocating for underrepresented artists, and connecting local talent to the global market. Luxury Real Estate's Newest Amenity Is a Prime View of Major Sporting Events When she died earlier this year at age 92, the prominent art dealer left a lasting imprint. In 1974, she cofounded Quay Ceramics Gallery with Ruth Braunstein, marking the start of a groundbreaking commercial platform that elevated ceramic sculpture into the realm of fine art. The following year, she expanded that vision by rebranding the space as Rena Bransten Gallery and championing diverse, multidisciplinary voices—from women and artists of color to emerging Bay Area conceptualists. “She was such a legend—and not only in the Bay Area art world, but nationally,” filmmaker John Waters told the San Francisco Chronicle , adding that she was a huge help to his career as a visual artist and not impressed by celebrity at all. “She was a classy act and a great art dealer ahead of her time.” Now, Bransten’s longtime estate in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood has entered the spotlight, hitting the market for $8.75 million. Erin Thompson and Neal

San Francisco, CA · 1d

Realtor.com News & Insights

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Vallejo Homes Move off the Market Faster as Inventory and Prices Both Dip

Vallejo buyers found fewer homes to choose from as listings shrank, and the homes that remained moved off the market faster than a year ago.

Vallejo, CA · 3d

hoodline.com

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Oakland Hills Landowner Pitches 216 Homes on 40 Acres Off Skyline Boulevard

A Novato-based property owner has filed preliminary permits for a new housing proposal that would carve 40 acres of wooded Oakland Hills land into 56 separate lots, with 54 single-family houses and six multifamily buildings adding up to 216 dwelling units at full build-out. The site sits at 5885 Skyline Boulevard, tucked into terrain that overlooks the highway roads approaching the Caldecott Tunnel and the North Oakland Regional Sports Center.

Oakland, CA · 8h

Pleasanton Weekly

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World Market opens next week at Hacienda Crossings

World Market, the nationwide retailer known for its furniture, home decor and international food offerings is set to open next week at the Hacienda Crossings Shopping Center, marking the store’s return to the Tri-Valley years after it closed its Pleasanton outpost. The store’s soft opening is set for Monday...

Pleasanton, CA · 1d

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San Lorenzo's 135-Unit Bayfair Apartments Sold, New Owners Eye Affordable Conversion

A 135-unit apartment complex in San Lorenzo has new owners with plans to carve out affordable housing from a property built back in 1976. JSB Capital Group and Faulkner Capital Partners have purchased Bayfair Apartments, a complex off Highway 185 near Interstates 238 and 580, with intentions to designate part of the units as affordable housing.

San Lorenzo, CA · 1d

The Home Brief

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Oakland sprinklers could miss a listed EBMUD rebate of up to $0.25 per square foot if drip equipment is bought before approval.

Buying or installing equipment before EBMUD approves a sprinkler-to-drip conversion fails a requirement for its listed rebate of up to $0.25 per square foot. In Oakland, California, check the company on your water bill first. If EBMUD bills your home, ask whether the rebate is currently available before your landscaper buys equipment or starts work.

Oakland, CA · 10h

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San Leandro Battery Startup Coreshell Lands $30M to Ditch Chinese Graphite

2020 Williams St., Building B3 — Coreshell Technologies Headquarters. A San Leandro battery startup just pulled in $30 million to prove it can build lithium-ion cells without a single gram of Chinese graphite. Coreshell Technologies announced the close of its Series B financing round on Wednesday, with the money earmarked for scaling up manufacturing and customer programs as the company races to replace one of the battery industry's most China-dependent materials.

San Leandro, CA · 1d

Mission Local

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Everyone knows about Bayview’s 3rd St., but there’s far more to the neighborhood

The Old Clam House, Cafe Alma, Two Jack’s Seafood — there’s a smattering of businesses off of Bayview’s 3rd Street, if you know where to look. Everyone knows about Bayview’s 3rd St., but there’s far more to the neighborhood

San Francisco, CA · 6d