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Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɜːr k l i / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
Ishii ran in the 2024 Berkeley mayoral race against Sophie Hahn and Katie Harrison, former District 4 City Council member. [11] Ishii's campaign manager was Cydney Chilimidos. [6] Ishii's campaign utilized Berkeley's public financing program that limited individual contributions up to $60 but matched those individual contributions at a 6–1 ...
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Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and east to Oxford Street.
The Berkeley Historic Civic Center District is a 9.9-acre (4.0 ha) historic district in Berkeley, California, U.S. [2] [3] [4] It comprises portions of a five-block area surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, primarily made up of civic-related buildings.
The design of the Berkeley City Hall was derived from the Town Hall at Tours, France, designed by Victor Laloux. [3] The building design by architects John Bakewell Jr., and Arthur Brown Jr. for the old city hall was selected as the winner of a 1907 competition to replace the original Town Hall which had burned to the ground in 1904 (designed by Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, 1884). [3]
On March 10, 1914, the City Council approved an ordinance appropriating $72.500 to purchase the property in order to establish a city park. At that time Berkeley, like many other American cities, was swept up in the City Beautiful Movement, and had recently commissioned a report on city planning, which revealed a lack of public parks.
also called Old Berkeley City Hall, and the Maudelle Shirek Building starting in 2007 [2] 2 Berkeley Women's City Club: 2315 Durant Avenue December 15, 1975 now the Berkeley City Club [2] 3 Town and Gown Club: 2401 Dwight Way December 15, 1975 designed by Bernard Maybeck [2] 4 William R. Thorsen House: 2307 Piedmont Avenue December 15, 1975