- Flea and Farmers Markets
- Significant emphasis is placed on ensuring permanent, well-designed, and affordable spaces for the Berkeley Flea Market and Farmers Market.
- Local and Black-Owned Businesses
- Residents want affordable commercial spaces, kiosks, and micro-enterprises to support local entrepreneurs and prevent displacement by corporate chains.
- Art, History, and Reparations
- Comments call for public art honoring Black and Ohlone heritage, as well as economic initiatives like reparations and funding for local arts organizations.
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We need to be rooted in our shared history but driven by a compelling vision for the future, daring to dream big and imagine.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Create space for stakeholders, such as the Flea Market.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be local hiring.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be local training and hiring.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
The minimum income of workers should be increased to $25.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be a lottery or allotment for funding for businesses.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Help the developer employ those within the community with jobs.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Support local shops, businesses, and the flea market so they are not displaced, consider earmarking housing units for locals, and put safeguards in place to prevent demolition before construction.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Make sure that the developer follows the prevailing wage law and provides apprenticeships.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Hire a majority of community members from the neighborhood in building, operations, retail, and other areas.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Invest in and support Black businesses so they can return.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Hire local people for labor to ensure jobs stay in the community.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
I have been a business owner in this community for over 30 years and feel our corridor has not benefited from aid for basic needs.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Provide the right of return and reparations funding for Black people who were already displaced.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Development should be paired with deep investment in existing and emergent Black businesses, community organizations, and public art.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There needs to be Black ownership and capital.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There must be reparations.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be a public apology and reparations.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Provide ample unrestricted funds so the community can decide what is needed.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Taxes or money should be collected from billionaires.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
We need to offer reparations for displaced and under-resourced groups.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Berkeley projects should be self-funded for the benefit of its constituents.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
We need to expose and eject deep-pocket absentee investors to prevent corruption.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be checks and balances from stakeholders who have knowledge of the historical value of South Berkeley and intelligent design.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be a community center and daycare open from 5 AM to 9 PM with meals, where seniors can take care of kids and resource each other.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Stop gentrifying businesses from opening.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be live-work spaces.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Create a property owners list predating the Ashby BART Station.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Protect the South Berkeley Flea Market at BART.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
It would be very nice to keep the Flea Market, as it has been there for many years and should remain a part of the community.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
The historical Flea Market must remain and become more affordable for the vendors, as it has been a delight since I was a teen.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Include a cultural base in the development.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
The historical context must be maintained.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Culture counts.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Make more buildings historic.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Make space for art produced by the community.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
It would feel like walking into the East Lot to the sounds of African drums, feeling safe because the entrance is open, well-lit with greenery, providing access to train departure times, and showing that my community is still here.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A percentage of housing should be dedicated to long-term Berkeley residents and Black families or individuals, given the history of the neighborhood.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The city needs to consistently support and fulfill the completion of the African-American Holistic Resource Center and continue holding community meetings to track its progress.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
In ten years, the neighborhood should be an economic engine for its own community, with streets that tell the story of its past, present, and future.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
People have moved to the suburbs, leaving the area divided by architecture and void of agricultural flora, and La Pena cannot hold the fort alone.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need a banner marking the arrival of the Lorin Business District.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There is an opportunity to create a center for neighborhood needs.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need food trucks, entrepreneurial services, accessible financial services, community events to encourage local patronage, security to mitigate theft, and vibrant ways for introverts to feel connected.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be shops and services owned and patronized by local residents, serving as a testament to the neighborhood's African-American heritage.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
While Berkeley Bowl prevents a food desert, Walgreens is in poor shape, and we need good restaurants and retail without permits killing small businesses.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be active streets, farmers markets, walkable access, and design support to encourage customers.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We want small, aesthetic, European-style curved spaces for locally owned shops, pharmacies, cafes, and childcare, rather than chain stores.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be restaurants and cafes with below-market commercial rents, more bicycle and pedestrian traffic, and community events in gathering spaces.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be funding for the flea and farmers markets, fairs, and festivals, as well as built-in kiosks for small businesses and rooftop gardens.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Local retail should be activated to support a diverse community, preserving the cultural legacy of the area by offering affordable businesses and a community center that cater to the people's needs.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Although I used to visit the Flea Market every weekend long ago, this is already a diverse and lively neighborhood.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a Trader Joe's, banks, a movie theater, pushcart vendors, and very low fees for vendors living within five miles of Berkeley.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a farmers market and flea market vendors.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be local retail and an entertainment area managed by a local retail group.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There needs to be a good representation of how to configure the flea market along Adeline for vending.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Providing free tax help, low rent, and cheap healthy food would allow businesses to stay.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a reasonable and affordable farmers market that accepts EBT.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be pop-up sidewalk sales, more food and grocery options, an ATM, sliding scale rent, and activities for all ages connected to the senior center, library, lace museum, and Shotgun Theater.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The Berkeley Flea Market is historical and cultural for the Black community, and to help small diverse businesses grow, we need safe parking lots and bike spaces.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be kiosks for small businesses, grant funding to train people to run them, and a cultural arts hub with live-work housing above it.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be shops and services owned and patronized by local residents, serving as a testament to the neighborhood's African-American heritage.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The neighborhood needs a nail salon and a cluster of cafes open for lunch, supported by more residents to help small local businesses thrive.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
To help businesses stay, there should be workshops for food prep and repairs.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A mix of small businesses offering food, cosmetics, retail, and art supplies, similar to Valencia in SF or College and Ashby Avenues in Berkeley, would be great.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be clean streets with maintained garbage and recycling cans, places to window shop, multi-ethnic slow food shops, and fewer permits required for small businesses.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be free two-hour parking, small non-franchise businesses, a makerspace, a reuse storefront, and spaces for people to work in gardens and walk dogs, alongside the Berkeley Flea Market.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The City of Berkeley pushed for South Berkeley to be an opportunity zone, allowing wealthy outsiders to buy up displaced Black families' lands to make a profit.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The Berkeley Flea Market is a beloved space that supports an international business community and creates a gathering place, and I miss when it was vibrant and thriving.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should interview surrounding business owners about their needs and provide financial and management support to ensure BIPOC-owned small businesses can benefit and improve.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Businesses that are useful to daily life would grow and stay.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be art displayed around by local artists.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be places for crafts markets, flea markets, and farmers markets.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Outdoor open spaces should feature natural lighting, cultural events, and support for BIPOC-owned small businesses, ensuring they have priority licenses and are not pushed out by new businesses.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The community needs support for the Black Rep, increased education about Black South Berkeley history, and the sharing of stories from people who have lived here over the last century.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be murals, dedicated spaces for community events and markets, space for local vendors, and opportunities for local artists to perform and show their art.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A plaza would feel like it belongs to the community if it is a colorful, creative space with music, community events, and vendors or artists of color selling their goods.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Regarding food trucks, the Black community is grossly underrepresented in ownership, so we must ask how many will represent the traditional African American community that is most at risk.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a market space similar to Faneuil Hall.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be places for crafts markets, flea markets, and farmers markets.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We can turn neighborhood trauma into community unity with a love museum, shared food, celebrations, and drama and poetry performances.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a flea market with a children's play area, a food truck night, and a nearby youth art gallery and performance space.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We want a farmers market, but will it actually be there?
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be overhead elements or canopies for the flea market vendors.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Include a cafe near the station access plaza, possibly near Mabel Howard Plaza.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The design should feature tall buildings with ground-level trees, art, and community activation, incorporating creative simplicity and frontal artistic decor honoring African heritage.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The design should feature tall buildings with ground-level trees, art, and community activation, incorporating creative simplicity and frontal artistic decor honoring African heritage.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should carefully look at existing historic sites and aesthetics to incorporate them into the new building, along with daylight, visibility, openness, and connectivity.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The physical, mental, and spiritual health of the community should be supported with pretty, comfortable, shaded spots with seating, and the rich history of the Black community in South Berkeley should be highlighted.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be space for community-generated public art by local artists, culturally relevant educational art for youth and adults, and showcasing the vibrant history of Black Berkeley.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should keep Juneteenth on Adeline.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be murals reflecting African American and Asian culture, housing for low and moderate-income families and single folks, a new council that cares for the community, and culture included in the design.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
In ten years, we want no vacant storefronts, sidewalk storytelling, financial support for arts organizations, and homes for all income levels.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
This neighborhood used to be called New Berry and was agricultural until the 1906 earthquake, and the buildings should be shorter.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The development should honor the history of the neighborhood by highlighting the African-American and Japanese-American history and contributions through visual art pieces or murals.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
In ten years, there should be drumming, cultural experiences for residents, and places to protest.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
This neighborhood should have a renovated Black Rep and other renovated buildings, and it should be easy to walk in.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The area was built for small business owners, and after the railroads arrived, Black families could afford to move here, though many struggled to keep their homes over time.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Black political and cultural organizations should be consulted, and the spirit of Juneteenth and the Black Rep Theater should be lifted.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should continue to provide funding to arts and community organizations that help to hold space and support cultural arts in the South Berkeley neighborhood.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a history plaque documenting the history of the displaced Ohlone, Black, and Japanese people.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The development should honor African and Asian history.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should honor South Berkeley via murals reflecting its history and music, and create spaces like a mini museum for learning about the history with large photos.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should sponsor a community Peace Wall with tile mosaics hand-painted by different groups on multiple building facades as local, small-scale community art.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A wound should be healed and a red line erased, but remembered.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
In ten years, we want to see kids going to college or starting a trade career, equity gaps eliminated, and people feeling proud to live in a tight, joyful, and inspired community.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should create space for community events such as concerts by locals, flea markets especially for Black vendors, and community workshops and classes.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should not push out or reduce the ways folks create community, but rather support a thriving space like the Ashby market with drums playing in the BART station.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be frequent markets and events to create the feeling of an invigorated neighborhood.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
This should be a place where future histories can be made.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should keep the Flea Market, provide affordable housing, and ensure it does not become "Project Life".
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The focus should be on healthy Black families.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be art classes, spaces, and performances.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be art classes, spaces, and performances.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be locally run shops and businesses like a butcher, cobbler, hardware shop, small pharmacy, childcare, and coffee shop.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be art by local artists and a performance place.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be local shops with local talent, an affordable grocery store, health and wellness services, and an affordable gym.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a First Friday in Oakland type of gathering for local businesses.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should celebrate music.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
What is missing are art galleries and a building with a community arts hub and artist live-work units.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
South Berkeley is an example of Black entrepreneurship that needs to be preserved and valued, and there should be shops and outdoor spaces where neighbors can meet.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be fresh, affordable produce stores, fewer smoke and liquor stores, and more Black-owned businesses like repair shops, clothing shops, daycares, art centers, and tutoring centers.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be thriving local businesses, mom-and-pop shops, and pop-up markets.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
I grew up at the Berkeley Flea Market, paid for my school clothes by working there, and we honored my mother's life and the flea market when she passed.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The Berkeley Flea Market is the heart and soul of South Berkeley, and there should be affordable groceries, cultural centers focusing on Black and Brown culture, educational support, and summer recreation and jobs for kids.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be stores like bookstores with book signings, a hardware store, a bakery, and repair resources.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The Berkeley Flea Market is important and historic but needs better leadership, funding, activation, and a business strategy, perhaps by having BHS students volunteer and a business school consult.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should lower the barriers of entry for permits, decriminalize home-based businesses, and provide more street vending opportunities.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should encourage people to shop locally, support inexpensive food centers for small local business owners, maintain a vibrant community with small businesses, and include more Black residents without pushing them away.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a used bookstore, hardware store, farmer's market, and music store.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A neighborhood feels alive when there are street fairs, music, cultural events, arts, and family-friendly activities.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The Berkeley Flea Market is historic and cultural for the Black community, and we need diverse stores for different cultures, as well as parking lots and safe bike storage to help small businesses grow.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The flea market represents culture, socializing, vendors, music, food, and various cultures.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Small businesses need resources, funding, and safety, and there should be festivals with vendors focusing on culture and health, integrating artists into the space.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be affordable food and cafe options that feel friendly and encourage interacting with people, not machines.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should create incentives for local business owners.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a street festival featuring Black artists and organized by Black community leadership.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be faces from historical Black Berkeley, musical and dance spaces, native trees and plants, and pollinator fruit trees.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be opportunities to learn about the culture and history of the neighborhood through plaques and walking tours.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be structures and food trucks on Adeline.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be Black grassroots businesses.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should celebrate music.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be opportunities to learn about the culture and history of the neighborhood through plaques and walking tours.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should acknowledge Ohlone history and the present crisis, as well as every culture of the world's oppressed communities.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings should have personalities that honor the history of this area, including murals of the legacy.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a tribute to historically significant contributors and people.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Black and Brown business owners and workers from the community should be hired and centered, and there should be Black restaurateurs, public art, storytelling, a mix of generations, and game zones.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should highlight South Berkeley history and the history of demographic groups here.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We want to see more Black people, Black children being treated as kids, and communities volunteering their time to help elders and celebrate each other.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Elders have stories of impromptu jazz concerts on the grassy median on Adeline Street, so we should have green spaces for music.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be signage, banners, or permanent markers showing that you are arriving in the South Berkeley Lorin District.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should hire and train the residents of the building to maintain it, including management and plumbers.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Half of the ground-level square footage should be available for small low-cost startups, canopies, the flea market, kiosks, and storage, managed by the Local Flea Market Board.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be holidays where people can ride for free, and the space should allow for cultural celebrations.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be pushcart vendors with low or no permit rates, and the issue of police not responding to bicycle thefts needs to be addressed.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need easy access to healthy and natural food within the neighborhood.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Some seniors have small businesses and need a small place to be able to sell their crafts as a hobby and as a business and as a community contribution.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Yoga, and other body and health movement, activities and services are essential to the well-being of aging populations. New ground floor space that allows for community gatherings that are for movement health and body health and mental health are essential for aging senior populations.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Having a few local places to eat on the ground floor would be great.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
We love the Flea Market, and we need the Flea Market to thrive, and we want to make sure that their operations and their community is supported throughout the entire process of construction and beyond.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
We would like ground floor spaces that serve the needs of seniors such as arts organizations, and other well-being organizations such as yoga movement, tai chi, Chi gong, and other types of organizations that promote longevity and health.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Senior citizens have stories to tell.
Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#
There should be local retail from the community.
Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#
We should highlight the history and culture.
Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#
There should be small-scale neighborhood retail with density.
Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#
Make sure the flea market stays open and has a home.
Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#
We would like to see rotating displays of art incorporated into the space.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We need marketing support and temporary relief programs for businesses adversely affected by construction or long-term operational changes.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
It is important to preserve reasonable customer access to existing businesses.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
It would be a missed retail opportunity with all the foot traffic not to include small-scale groceries, bakeries, and produce stands.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
The development should be open to and supportive of micro-enterprises.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We want to see a vibrant density of life along the commercial edge.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
New commercial spaces along Adeline need to feed energy into the promenade, connect well to Adeline, and be lively.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
The project should adopt a strong and cohesive visual identity.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We should combine outdoor spaces with retail, parks, cafés, and other social uses.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We need small scale grocery
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
we need to maximize commercial and recreational space
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We must retain the quirky nature of retail in the neighborhood.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Public Art is a Magnet. we need more public art
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We need rotating curated displays of art
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We love micro commercial.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
We want a mixed-use ground floor with businesses where the food is always great.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We need more affordability to create a better community for everyone.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
It feels like Black people are missing from this process and need to be included.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We want to see shops, restaurants, and clean seating areas.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
Solar charging stations should be provided.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
It is crucial to maintain a space for the Berkeley Flea Market.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We would like to see neighborhood serving small scale retail.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We want to see locally serving food and restaurant space that is small and local.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We need to make sure that there is a home for the Flea Market at all times.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We want to see local shops, not just services that don't activate the streetscape.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We would love to see more art and public sculpture that reflects local culture and local artists.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We need to make sure that new Development lifts up local businesses not compete with them and put them out of business.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We have to celebrate and support the local arts and culture Of Berkeley and the people that are creative and artistic in making our cities beautiful.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
When the project is constructed, we hope that local people will be employed and especially local people of color will be employed and can learn the trades and sustain their employment throughout and beyond the course of the project.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We need affordable community venue spaces for small shows and performance
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
I hope the ground floor of the building make limited commercial space, too many new art buildings in berkeley and oakland have empty ground floors
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Cypress mandela would be a great fit
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Yes to cypress mandela training center offers more to the community
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
include cypress mandela training center
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Families need way more than 1 bike parking and 1 space
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Ground floor, commercial should include bars, cafes, street facing business that stay open real late
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
DURABLE, FUNCTIONAL. PLEASANT
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Health Clinic?
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Small format shops
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Workforce development potential ground level use? Would there be spaces for partner orgs?
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
No retail
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
New restaurants
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Hardware store?
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Family Style Diner (Open Late)
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Brand the project as a "South Berkeley Transit Village." Lean into the place and identity.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Wants clarity on the location of the flea market (noted at Adeline Plaza).
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
What do flea market vendors do with trucks and cars? E&K Response: current design is still in progress.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
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