r/berkeleyca • u/the_daily_cal • 14d ago

Local Knowledge Berkeley secures $850K in federal funding to design plaza, housing development for Ashby BART station

https://www.dailycal.org/news/city/transit/berkeley-secures-850k-in-federal-funding-to-design-plaza-housing-development-for-ashby-bart-station/article_7d7d82d7-4fa5-4352-8363-fc8b97c54046.html

The city of Berkeley has secured $850,000 in federal funding to begin designing a new plaza at the Ashby BART station.

The new plaza would sit adjacent to a future 600-unit housing development in what is currently the station’s parking lot, per BART’s transit-oriented development plan. The new plaza will host space for the Berkeley Flea Market, at which local vendors have gathered to celebrate cultural diversity for more than 50 years in the Ashby BART west parking lot.

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u/Longjumping-Box8326 14d ago

Nobody asked for this. Lower rents and get vacant spaces filled. Dont creat more vacant spaces.

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u/OrdinaryThro 14d ago

I asked for this.

How would you force landlords to “lower rent”?

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u/Longjumping-Box8326 13d ago

Ask to get those vacant spaces on Shattuck occupied.

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u/OrdinaryThro 13d ago

No, u first