Damaged tide tubes mean water doesn’t drain quickly from Aquatic Park, and that leads to flooding.
Waterside Workshops
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
Waterside Workshops is a community bicycle shop and youth education program in business since 2007. The organization is opening a new bike repair shop and renovated rental shop at 90 Bolivar Drive on May 30. Photo: Waterside Workshops Waterside Workshops is a community bicycle shop and youth education program in business since 2007. The organization is opening a new bike repair shop and […]
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Bike rentals and much more planned for Aquatic Park
Watershed Workshops is a non-profit that uses use vocational education to promote youth development. Image via Facebook A popular bike shop and community bike repair space in West Berkeley’s Aquatic Park won approval recently from the city’s zoning board to expand its buzzing operation into new digs and bring bike rentals, and much more, to […]
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Work begins on controversial Berkeley housing project
A rendering of The Higby on the southeast corner of San Pablo and Ashby avenues. Image: Gerding Edlen After lying vacant for years, work has begun on a controversial, five-story, 98-unit mixed-use housing development on a lot at the southeast corner of San Pablo and Ashby avenues. City officials and representatives from Gerding Edlen, the […]
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Berkeley Bites: Kara Hammond, Elmwood Café
A decade ago, and fresh out of North Carolina, Kara Hammond landed a gig at Café Fanny, a tiny slip of a place in North Berkeley opened 25 years ago by, oh, a certain famous local chef. Hammond, who had run a homespun bakery in Greensboro, wanted to get some kitchen experience in the Bay […]
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On the waterfront: A new cafe in Aquatic Park
The recently opened Waterside Cafe in Aquatic Park. Photo: Lance Knobel. The recently opened Waterside Cafe provides a beautiful spot to have coffee or tea in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park. And the cafe, part of the non-profit Waterside Workshops, offers 25 cents off any beverage for customers who arrive by bicycle. Cyclists are also catered for […]
