The new store is one of Safeway’s “Lifestyle” stores and includes a Starbucks and an emphasis on fresh food. Photo: Tracey Taylor The new store is one of Safeway’s “Lifestyle” stores and includes a Starbucks and an emphasis on fresh food. Photo: Tracey Taylor Today sees the re-opening, after nearly one year of construction work, of the […]
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Oakland Planning Commission approves Safeway plans
Rendering of a new pedestrian walk-way, part of the proposal for a revamped College Ave Safeway which was approved by Oakland Planning Commission this week. Photo: Lowney Architecture On Wednesday, the Oakland Planning Commission unanimously certified the final EIR and approved Safeway’s proposed plans for its College Avenue store which sits on the Oakland-Berkeley border. A […]
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Berkeley council unites in opposing Safeway project
Safeway wants to tear down the 1950s building and build a new structure that is double the size. The proposed project would be two to three stories high with an underground garage, and would have a set of retail shops facing College Avenue. Rendering: Lowney Architecture A ten-year-old girl who lives on Lewiston Avenue was […]
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Bleak images as Berkeley store closes for remodeling
Empty shelves at the Safeway on Shattuck which closed for remodeling on Saturday March 17. Photo: Joe Parks There’s something almost post-apocalyptic about these photographs of Safeway on Shattuck Avenue taken just before it closed its doors on Saturday in order to undergo an expansion and complete renovation. The bare shelves and exposed shabbiness caught […]
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
Pro Wheels absorbed Velo Sport RIDING IN TANDEM Velo-Sport Bicycles at 1615 University Avenue has closed and been absorbed into Pro Wheels scooter shop at 1601 University. Pro Wheels confirms it is now working with Velo and selling bicycles along with scooters. [Hat-tip: EarlyMorningCoffee.] Safeway on Solano MULTIPLE MAKEOVERS Safeway is to close its Solano Avenue store for six months […]
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
New: Michelle Nelson design studio CRAFTING A LOOK Michelle Nelson has now opened her eponymous home design studio at 2842 Prince Street. The space was formerly Personal Pizzazz clothing store which, as reported in August, moved into the space formerly occupied by The Craftsman Home, around the corner at 3048 Claremont Avenue. Nelson, who began […]
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Berkeley City Council to hold hearing on Safeway project
Even though the new Safeway store proposed for College and Claremont Avenues is in Oakland, the project will have significant impacts on Berkeley. To assess how the new supermarket will affect the Rockridge area, the Berkeley City Council will hold a special work session Tuesday night at 5:30 pm. The city of Oakland sent a […]
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Andronico’s files for bankruptcy
Andronico's on Telegraph, one of the four stores in Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Andronico’s Markets, the 82-year old supermarket chain founded in Berkeley, filed today for bankruptcy in Oakland. Four of the seven existing Andronico’s stores are in Berkeley: on Telegraph, Shattuck, University and Solano (the original store, founded in 1929). Berkeleyside reported on the […]
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Locals protest scale, traffic of new Rockridge Safeway
Rendering of the Lowney Architecture design for the proposed Rockridge Safeway Plans to rebuild the Safeway store on College and Claremont on the Oakland-Berkeley border have been on the drawing board for more than two years. In fact, the store has put a number of different proposals in front of the city of Oakland and […]
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Safeway buys Berkeley’s Chimes Pharmacy, to consolidate
Chimes will be supplanted by Safeway Pharmacy. Photo: Lance Knobel Chimes Pharmacy, one of the last remaining independent pharmacies in Berkeley, will be turned into a Safeway Pharmacy on July 23. John Gelinas, who has owned and run Chimes at 3210 College Avenue near the Oakland border for more than 25 years, sold the business to […]
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North Berkeley Safeway given green light to remodel
Design rendering for the remodeled Safeway on Shattuck Avene, which should be completed by summer 2012. By summer 2012 North Berkeley should be sporting a new-look Safeway at its Gourmet Ghetto location after the City Council voted this week to support the zoning board’s approval of the store’s expansion and remodeling plan. The renovations have […]
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New plans unveiled for Safeway store on Shattuck
Safeway as seen from Shattuck Safeway’s new designs for a remodeled store on Shattuck Avenue will make the grocery store an integral part of the lively Gourmet Ghetto. The new plans, which were unveiled July 26, call for outdoor benches and café seating along Shattuck Avenue, as well as the installation of large windows that […]