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
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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
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March 2024

Lion Creek Crossings Mobility Hub: A Travel Connection Point!

On a recent sunny Saturday in February, over 100 Lion Creek Crossings (LCC) residents attended a Mobility Fair where they learned about ways to engage more in public transportation options. LCC in East Oakland is one of three Mobility Hub locations in the Bay Area. Mobility Hubs are community places that bring together public transit, bike share, car share, and other ways for people to get where they want to go. LCC’s Mobility Hub promotes environmentally friendly transportation choices based on resident desires on site. Through our longtime partner, Oakland-based nonprofit... Read more
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March 2024

February Celebrations at EBALDC!

Throughout February, EBALDC residents and community members observed Black History Month and the Lunar New Year at celebrations across our EBALDC properties and local neighborhoods. Here are two highlights from the month’s celebrations: EBALDC Engages Community at the Lantern Festival. On a recent Sunday evening, EBALDC’s Creative Community Development (CCD) team participated in Oakland’s second annual Lantern Festival celebration. Co-hosted by nonprofits Oakland Bloom and Sticky Rice Club and the collective AAPI Healers for Liberation, the Lantern Festival took place in the heart of Oakland Chinatown at the Pacific Renaissance Plaza... Read more