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Emeryville Center for the Arts – Community Meeting
The Emeryville Center for the Arts is hosting a second community meeting to discuss the renovation of its new home at 4060 Hollis Street. Please come by to ask questions, share ideas, and review designs. Refreshments served. For more information, … Continue reading
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Banjos in Bulk: Guitar Center to Replace Borders Books at Public Market
Thursday, June 16, 2011 San Franicsco Business Times, by Blanca Torres Guitar Center, a musical equipment retailer, plans to move into a space formerly occupied by Borders Books in Emeryville’s Public Market. The store has signed a lease for 18,000 … Continue reading
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Save Oakland Libraries – “Read-In” Monday, June 20 at Oakland City Hall
In the face of a major budget crisis, Oakland is considering closing 14 of its 18 libraries, including Golden Gate on the Emeryville border. Other locations to be closed are Asian, Brookfield, Cesar Chavez, Eastmont, Elmhurst, Lakeview, Martin Luther King, … Continue reading
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Citizen Action Day: Help Clean Up San Pablo @ 65th – 67th
Citizen Action Day and Potluck Dinner Join your neighbors for weeding, mulching tree wells, and litter pick-up on San Pablo Avenue between 65th and 67th Streets (on the Emeryville border). Clean Up: noon – 3 p.m. Meet at Tribu Cafe, … Continue reading
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Monthly Bike Party, sponsored by Geared 4 Kids
Lakeside Park, Lake Merritt, Oakland (meet at playground) Join the East Bay’s monthly bike party geared for kids, families, and riders of any age who are new to wheels, pedals, and gears. The mostly flat, 4-mile route this month will … Continue reading
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Should Big Business in Emeryville Pay Their Fair Share?
For years, the City Council has given the city’s biggest businesses the biggest tax breaks. Residents and small business owners in town have begun to ask why. On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether to put an initiative on … Continue reading
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Community Wrkshp – Bike/Pedestrian Plan for City
Emeryville is updating its Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan! As part of that process, the City Council is seeking community input. Will be held at 1275 61st. St. (the former Middle School Site). At the workshop you can learn about recommendations … Continue reading
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City Council Meeting on City’s Business Tax
The City Council will decide whether to place a ballot measure on the November 2011 ballot to raise the cap on the city’s business license tax for big business.
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Japanese Pharmeceutical Giant Moves US Headquarters to Emeryville
Santen Inc., a subsidiary of Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, has announced that its U.S. corporate headquarters, currently located in Napa, CA, will relocate to 2100 Powell in Emeryville in early July. “In the preparation of our new strategic … Continue reading
Court Rejects Woodfin Demand
By Marc Albert A California appeals court rejected a demand by the Woodfin Suites Hotel that Emeryville taxpayers pay the hotel’s growing legal fees. The hotel company, owned and operated by Sam Hardage, a Republican Party activist from San Diego, … Continue reading
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