The sale will fund unpaid pensions for former steelworkers, but union officials worry their fight may not be over.
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Update: Eastshore Highway is closed for the Gilman Street interchange
The block will remain closed until the end of September as construction crews work on a roundabout at the I-80-Gilman interchange.
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Update: 7-week closure of Gilman Street approach to I-80 starts Tuesday
Gilman Street will be closed between Fourth and Second streets from Tuesday until June 21.
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Berkeley’s Gilman District is launching its first street fair this Sunday
The kid-friendly street fair will offer art, shopping and food trucks on three closed-down blocks of Fifth and Camelia streets.
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Vacant Pacific Steel site could be home to new life sciences campus
The Gilman Forge project would redevelop a 10-acre site along I-80 in Berkeley, including the steel plant that shut down in 2018.
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The 5 Berkeley streets with the most recorded potholes
These streets have received the largest numbers of citizen complaints over the past 13 years.
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At Berkeley’s new game space for grownups, you can be a treasure-hunting, rope-swinging mole
Gamers have to cooperate to succeed at Game On, a Gilman District venture formed by three Berkeley childhood buddies.
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CHP recommends charges for big rig driver from Gilman Street crash
The man and his company will be responsible for the $2.1 million freeway repairs, officials said.
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Update: I-80 East lane closures now set for Friday night to prep for Gilman work
Authorities say they have identified the driver from Wednesday’s hit-and-run collision in northwest Berkeley.
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CHP seeks big rig driver who struck I-80 freeway overpass at Gilman Street
After the collision, one lane of the freeway was shut down “to accommodate crews inspecting the overcrossing.”
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Police: Man posing as cop with gun ‘demanded a hug’ from Berkeley girl
Police are asking for the community’s help to identify the man and have released two brief videos from the incident Sept. 29.
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Hate the Gilman interchange? Safer routes are on the way
Caltrans will begin work in May to install two new roundabouts and a new pedestrian/bike bridge at what some call the “most dysfunctional intersection in the country.”
