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 […]
Haste and Telegraph
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Telegraph Ave property owner shows plans for vacant site
Telegraph Avenue elevation design for a new building at 2501 Haste, which would be partly clad in rock. Courtesy: Kirk E. Peterson & Associates The owner of a blighted lot at Telegraph and Haste that has been vacant for more than two decades presented his plans for a fortress-like building on the property, although he […]
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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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Berkeley files suit against owner of blighted Telegraph lot
The city of Berkeley holds $640,000 in liens against this lot at 2501 Haste Street. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The city of Berkeley has filed a lawsuit against Ken Sarachan, telling him they intend to seize his lot at the intersection of Telegraph and Haste to pay off the $640,000 he owes in liens and interest. […]
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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 […]
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Berkeley’s 95-year-old Sequoia building is brought down
Demolition began this morning on the Sequoia Building at 2441 Haste Street at the corner of Telegraph Avenue in order to make what remains of the fire-damaged structure safe. Beginning at the top corner of the five-story building, the brick structure was slowly pulled apart, and bricks, window frames and metal balconies cascaded to the […]
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Sequoia: Demolition imminent, tenants meet to complain
Demolition crews were preparing the site of 2441 Haste for partial demolition on Monday afternoon. Photo: Tracey Taylor As demolition crews prepared to partially demolish the fire-ravaged building at 2441 Haste Street Monday afternoon, a group of former tenants of the building were planning to meet this evening to discuss securing settlements from the building’s […]
