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BREAKING: Alameda Credit Union seeks merger

Michele Ellson
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 11:19am

Photo by Michele Ellson.

The Alameda Credit Union is pursuing a merger, citing rising costs, new regulations and a desire to provide more services.

The 76-year-old credit union is seeking approval from state and federal regulators to merge with Redwood City-based Provident Credit Union, and will seek its members’ approval if the regulators sign off, according to a letter the credit union’s leaders sent to members Friday. Read more >> about BREAKING: Alameda Credit Union seeks merger

City evicting boat yard from Alameda Point

Michele Ellson
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 12:05am

Updated at 8:04 p.m. Tuesday, April 30

The city is seeking to evict Nelson’s Marine from its perch on Alameda Point. The sheriff’s office could padlock the boat repair yard’s gates today, the head of a nonprofit rescue group that’s based there said.

Ray Thackeray of the International Rescue Group said an attorney hired by the city e-mailed him to let him know the boat yard was being shut down and the gates locked this week. Read more >> about City evicting boat yard from Alameda Point

Safeway seeks store at Alameda Landing

Michele Ellson
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 12:05am

A new Safeway grocery store and gas station could become part of a Target-anchored shopping center being constructed next to the Posey Tube.

The Pleasanton-based grocery chain has signed a letter of intent to build a 45,000-square-foot “lifestyle” store at Alameda Landing and a gas station, similar to what the company build at Alameda South Shore Center. The store would accompany a Target that is under construction now and slated to open in October. Read more >> about Safeway seeks store at Alameda Landing

Students make sales at Wind River

Laura Casey
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 12:05am

A group of BUILD students makes its pitch at Wind River. Contributed photo.

It’s not often that taking a high school college prep class means making money. But that’s exactly what a cadre of tenth grade students from East Oakland did in March at Wind River. Read more >> about Students make sales at Wind River

South Shore storefronts to get a new look

Michele Ellson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 12:05am

Storefronts lining portions of Alameda South Shore Center could adopt a more varied, Main Street look under new design guidelines approved by the Planning Board on Monday. Read more >> about South Shore storefronts to get a new look

Storified: Alameda reacts to market closures

Michele Ellson
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 12:03am

Alamedans had a lot to say about the pending closure of Woori Market on Park Street and the shuttering of the Chestnut-Encinal Market "until further notice." Here's how you said the closures will affect you, and what you said you'll miss. Read more >> about Storified: Alameda reacts to market closures

Grocery workers will keep their health care, but pay more for it

Michele Ellson
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 12:05am

Thousands of Northern and Central California grocery workers – including employees of Nob Hill Foods in Alameda – are set to consider a contract offer that maintains their existing health benefit plan but will see them paying more for it. Union leaders are urging workers to approve the deal, which came on the heels of a nine-day strike. Read more >> about Grocery workers will keep their health care, but pay more for it

Alameda Point Entrepreneurs: John Walker’s Area 51

Heather L. Wood
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 12:05am

From the outside, 2301 Monarch looks like yet another drafty government building on Alameda's former Naval Air Station. Inside, however, is a different story – or stories, if you stay long enough to hear John Walker tell them. Read more >> about Alameda Point Entrepreneurs: John Walker’s Area 51

Kohl's to request extended hours

Michele Ellson
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 12:05am

Alameda South Shore Center anchor Kohl’s is asking the Planning Board to extend its hours for this coming holiday season and beyond.

The department store chain’s managers want to open their Alameda store on midnight on “Black Friday” – the traditional post-Thanksgiving start to the holiday shopping season – and 5 a.m. the day after Christmas, and they’d like to extend their hours to 11 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the entire year. Read more >> about Kohl's to request extended hours

Alameda Municipal Power may move business to bigger bank

Michele Ellson
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 12:05am

After more than a decade of banking locally, Alameda Municipal Power appears prepared to move to a bigger bank. Read more >> about Alameda Municipal Power may move business to bigger bank

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