A lawsuit against the City of Oakland aimed at overturning a ban against the handling of coal at the old Oakland Army Base heads to trial on Tuesday.
A federal judge in San Francisco began hearing evidence today on whether a planned coal shipment terminal at the former Oakland Army Base would endanger the health of city residents.
The Oakland Center is currently undergoing renovations to add extensions onto the building, which is expected to be completed by fall 2018.
Oakland's shed site plan is working — so far. The city's first site to temporarily house homeless people in sheds sits on an empty lot on Sixth Street between Castro and Brush streets. At first, its success was in doubt. Only three people moved in the week after it opened on Dec. 4.
Will Oakland build more housing than San Francisco in 2018?
Oakland's historic building boom may deliver more new homes this year than San Francisco, which has twice the population.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland Housing Authority officials Wednesday announced new financial incentives for property owners to accept low-income families as renters and help ease the city's affordable housing crisis.
The development team behind a 220-room West Oakland hotel proposal is urging the city to approve the project before the window on new hotel construction slams shut when this economic cycle ends.
Ellis Partners, in a joint venture with Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, officially broke ground on "The Key at 12th," a new state-of-the art Class-A office tower, adjacent to BART and across from the City Center development in Oakland, California.
Concerned about the proliferation of "poverty wage jobs" in the hospitality sector, the Oakland City Council directed the city planning department in May 2016 to strengthen rules that would give the city more authority to consider factors like employer compliance with labor laws before approving new hotel projects. But since then, nothing has happened. The planning department hasn't worked on the request, citing other priorities, and in the meantime, several new hotels have been proposed for construction. One of them would be built by a hotel operator that repeatedly violated federal labor laws at its existing hotels in Texas.
A bill to repeal statewide restrictions on rent control is dead in the water.
OAKLAND — A community-centered grocery store and cafe will break ground this month in West Oakland, where the store's founders say is lacking options. . .