Commercial Real Estate
May 2024

Shop Local and Enjoy the Weather as Oakland Small Business Week Continues!

Oakland Small Business Week continues through May 3rd!  This gorgeous spring week, while the City of Oakland is supporting small businesses with in-person and virtual workshops (on topics like launching your small business website and a celebration reception for small businesses), don’t forget to get outside (and online) and shop at your local neighborhood businesses! As the largest nonprofit commercial real estate landlord in the East Bay, EBALDC prioritizes BIPOC and women-owned community-serving small businesses to lease our commercial spaces. We are humbled by our commercial tenants’ passion for what they... Read more
News
April 2024

EBALDC’s Avalon Tenants Advocates (ATA) Amplify Community Needs Through its Newsletter and Local Organizing at EBALDC Senior Residence

For years, residents at EBALDC’s Avalon Senior Housing complex successfully advocated for themselves and their community, incorporating a newsletter publication into their efforts. How It All Began: Organizing for Traffic Safety Beth Esperanza Rosales, Avalon Senior Housing resident and Avalon Tenants Advocates co-founder says that the seniors there began speaking out on behalf of their community approximately 7 years ago: “We at Avalon started advocating…for a crosswalk right outside our gate. There is a Pak ‘N Save across the way, seniors were jaywalking and falling with carts right outside.” Beth described... Read more