Savers Thrift at 1414 University Ave. will close on Jan. 16, about two years after it opened. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Two years after it opened to fanfare – and controversy – Savers Thrift Superstore at 1414 University Ave. will shut its doors on Saturday, Jan. 16. No-one from corporate headquarters would speak to Berkeleyside about the […]
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Anneli Rufus: Low self-esteem in a high self-esteem city
Anneli Rufus is a Berkeley resident and the author of the newly published book Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself (Tarcher Penguin 2014). Here she writes about living with low self-esteem in a city she believes doesn’t have that issue: Cities, along with the people who live there, have personalities. Some are breezy, some banal. […]
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New fence hems in Strawberry Walk stores on University
The owner of the building housing Savers Thrift at 1414 University Ave. erected a fence last week to make passageway from the Strawberry Walk stores into the parking lot more difficult. Photo: Julia Scheeres In the latest salvo in a long-running fight over the rights to a parking lot, the owner of a building at […]
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Parking lot war at 1414 University in Berkeley heats up; owner attempts to fence off competing businesses
The owner of this parking lot at 1414 University Ave. does not want adjacent businesses using it. She sent a construction crew to erect a fence on Wednesday. Photo: Natalie Orenstein The owner of the building at 1414 University Ave. attempted to install a fence Tuesday along the parking lot that she gained exclusive rights […]
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Excitement and concern mark opening of Savers Thrift
Savers Thrift on University Avenue held its grand opening ceremony on Thursday. Cutting the ribbon were store manager Craig Gains with Katherine Keeney of the Epilepsy Foundation, an unidentified man, and and Savers president and CEO Ken Alterman. Photo: Natalie Orenstein A new for-profit thrift store opened its doors on University Avenue on Thursday in […]
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Neighbors angry at parking restrictions at old Andronico’s
For many years, customers who patronized the shops at Strawberry Walk at 1432 University Ave. could park in a lot right in front of the stores. Now the lot is reserved exclusively for customers and employees of Savers Thrift, which will open in November across the lot at 1414 University Ave. Photo: Natalie Orenstein For […]
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
Alchemy Collective Café will move from MLK Jr. Way near Fairview St. to a new place at Alcatraz and Ellis streets. Photo: Alchemy Collective Café Flavor Mediterranean Food is getting ready to move into Epicurious Garden. Photo: Flavor FLAVOR A new Mediterranean restaurant is set to move into the former Picoso Taqueria space in Epicurious Garden at […]
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Ace Hardware will not move to Andronico’s old space
Berkeley Ace Hardware has decided not to move from 2145 University Avenue where it has been for 50 years. Photo: Lance Knobel Berkeley Ace Hardware has decided not to move to the former Andronico’s site at 1414 University Avenue and it appears that a used clothing store may be taking over the 25,000-square foot space […]
