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Published: July, 2014 Head down to the Oakland waterfront for summertime fun at Jack London Square! The July calendar is packed with a slew of activities for everyone to enjoy including Pedalfest, the July 4th Festival of Family Fun, Jack of All Trades, Waterfront Flicks, Dancing Under the Stars, the East Bay SPCA Pet Adopt-a-thon […]
By Bill Picture Published: July, 2014 In May of 2013, Bay Crossings profiled the San Francisco Department of the Environment’s Environment Now program, which at the time was dispatching job trainees to canvas residential neighborhoods in order to explain best waste-sorting practices to homeowners, with the objective of helping the City reach its goal of […]
By Captain Ray Published: July, 2014 Last month I wrote about an overnight trip to the north of the Golden Gate (#1 on the chart). This month, let’s sail south, have an overnight stay in a safe and secure harbor, and come home the next day. Our destination is Pillar Point Harbor, about […]
By Mallory Johnson Published: July, 2014 Extending from the smallest seasonal streams high in the Sierras to the sprawling Delta and Bay, the San Francisco Bay watershed includes more than 65,000 square miles of forests and farmlands, rivers and lakes, cities and towns—over 40 percent of California’s land mass. Throughout the region, wherever you find […]
By John Goodwin Published: July, 2014 Last September’s historic opening of the new Bay Bridge East Span truly was a landmark event, not only marking the culmination of a decades-long effort to deliver seismic safety on the Bay Area’s state-owned bridges, but also setting the scene for a historic disappearing act. Work crews earlier this […]
Published: June, 2014 In May, the San Francisco Port Commission unanimously approved the lease agreement between the Port of San Francisco and Orton Development for the rehabilitation and development of several historic buildings located on or near 20th and Illinois Streets at Pier 70. The estimated $75 million project will save an extraordinary collection […]
By Matt Larson Published: June, 2014 There’s a lot of commerce happening on the San Francisco Bay every day. Each vessel you see has a team of people communicating with each other to keep peace on the waterways. This month we are featuring Greg McCulloch, a “vessel master”—in other words, a captain—for Golden Gate […]
BC Staff Report Published: June, 2014 As part of an ongoing series, Bay Crossings offers a closer look at some of the businesses that make up Alameda’s working waterfront community—a thriving hotbed of distinctive, innovative and thoroughly hip young companies. Bay Ship & Yacht Company is one of the unique waterfront businesses […]
By Patrick Burnson Published: June, 2014 Adhering to its initial positive forecast for 2014, Oakland-based Matson says its business performed as anticipated in the first quarter of 2014, driven by sustained demand in its core markets and continued freight rate. “While the timing of fuel surcharge collections significantly impacted financial results during this past […]
Published: June, 2014 Our cover this month finds Oakland teen Michelle Macial at the helm of an OCSC Sailing School boat. OCSC’s Anthony Sandberg is introducing sailing to hundreds of teenagers. Working with Envision Academy of Arts & Technology, a tuition-free charter high school in Oakland, Sandberg gives every one of the school’s 350 […]