A groundbreaking for a new building at 2441 Haste St., at Telegraph Avenue, on May 28. Among those pictured (left to right), the property’s owner, Kenneth Ent (fourth from left). His son Gregory is second from left. Photo: Ted Friedman A groundbreaking for a new building at 2441 Haste St., at Telegraph Avenue, on May 28. […]
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Telegraph Ave. scrubbed, cleaned in beautification effort
Ambassadors hired by Block by Block are engaged in a month-long cleanup of Telegraph Avenue. Photo: Ted Friedman The deployment of neon-clad “ambassadors” to paint over graffiti, power-wash streets, and sweep sidewalks along Telegraph Avenue is the latest in a series of attempts to revitalize a business district which has seen better days. The “Big […]
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‘Explosive’ downtown Berkeley housing boom under way
More than 1,400 units are in the works for downtown. Image: Downtown Berkeley Association More than 1,400 housing units are currently in development in downtown Berkeley, with demolition on one of the first in the pipeline scheduled to begin this week. There are eight projects, including a hotel, planned in the downtown core, with two […]
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New building proposed for Sequoia site on Telegraph Ave.
A rendering of the 42-unit residential and commercial building proposed for the site of the former Sequoia Apartment building at 2441 Haste St. at Telegraph. Source: Kahn Design Associates The owners of the property at 2441 Haste St. at Telegraph, scene of a devastating fire in Nov. 2011 that destroyed the five-story Sequoia Apartments, have submitted […]
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Popular restaurants closed by fires face further delays
All that remains of the Sequoia Building is the one-story façade on Telegraph that housed Café Intermezzo and Raleigh’s. Photo: Lance Knobel All that remains of the Sequoia Building is the one-story façade on Telegraph that housed Café Intermezzo and Raleigh’s. Photo: Lance Knobel It looks like a number of Berkeley restaurants won’t be recovering […]
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Telegraph site owner plans for temporary resurrection
Designs for the Sequoia site include temporary tents and kitchens in cargo containers. Photo: courtesy Kirk E. Peterson & Associates Architects The owners of the old Sequoia Building site on the corner of Telegraph and Haste last week submitted plans to the city of Berkeley to enable them to reopen Raleigh’s and Café Intermezzo, two […]
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As Sequoia rubble removed, plans made for new structure
A crew member watches as an excavator removes rubble and debris from the site at 2441 Haste at Telegraph. Photos: Tracey Taylor Two businesses on the site of the demolished Sequoia Building at Haste and Telegraph may re-open, and plans are under way to build a new structure on the site. City officials are hosting […]
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Telegraph named a disaster zone to help the fire-affected
The site of the fire at 2441 Haste Street at Telegraph after extensive demolition. Photo: Lance Knobel Telegraph Avenue has been declared a disaster zone in order to provide federal aid to businesses, homeowners and tenants affected by the November 18th fire at The Sequoia Building. The declaration, which was signed today at state level, is seen as […]
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Sequoia fire aftermath: Cause, rights, future
All that remains of the Sequoia Building is the one-story façade on Telegraph that housed Café Intermezzo and Raleigh's. Photos: Lance Knobel The elevator system in the Sequoia Building at 2441 Haste Street where a fire broke out on the night of November 18th, ultimately destroying the 39-unit building, had not been inspected in over […]
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Demolition of Sequoia Building halted after wall collapse
An unintended wall collapse on the Haste side of the Sequoia Building put a temporary halt on demolition work Wednesday. Photo: Tracey Taylor The demolition of the Sequoia Building at 2441 Haste Street was temporarily halted after part of an exterior wall on Haste Street accidentally collapsed on Wednesday, causing a violation of the demolition permit. The […]
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A Berkeley building is turned into a heap of rubble, debris
Late Wednesday, it looked like a humongous monster had taken a giant bite out of the partially demolished Sequoia Building. Photo: Tracey Taylor By Wednesday evening, the Sequoia Building at 2441 Haste Street was effectively no more, or at the very least no more than a gigantic heap of debris and rubble. A demolition crew, […]
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Sequoia fire accidental, started in elevator machinery
The Sequoia Building Tuesday undergoing a partial demolition post-fire. Photo: Ira Serkes Investigators for the Berkeley Fire Department say the five-alarm fire that broke out on November 18th at 2441 Haste Street originated in and around the elevator machinery in the basement of the five-story building, and that the fire was accidental in nature. The BFD […]