UPDATED: ALAMEDA FIRE CHIEF ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
1, September 2, 2010 – 10:43 am | 8 Comments

Updated 1:23 p.m. Thursday, September 2
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler has been placed on administrative leave following revelations he used the city’s gas pumps to fuel his personal vehicles and that he had faced similar …

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Your weekend: Foundation fundraisers
1, July 29, 2010 – 4:50 am | 13 Comments
Your weekend: Foundation fundraisers

Times are tough for Alameda’s schools, and a number of local businesses are hosting fundraisers for the Alameda Education Foundation to try to help out.
First up: The folks at the Harbor Bay Club are holding …

Green Home Expo is Saturday
1, July 15, 2010 – 4:45 am | One Comment

Alameda’s first-ever Green Home Expo is coming to Alameda Towne Centre this Saturday, July 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature more than 50 exhibitors offering environmentally friendly products and services …

If you’re a poet and you know it …
1, June 7, 2010 – 4:40 am | No Comment

… then the folks at Artists Embassy International and Alameda Island Poets have just the thing for you. They’re calling all poets to participate in their first-ever Summer Site Write, which is going on right …

Ross returns to Alameda Towne Centre
1, April 29, 2010 – 9:00 am | 31 Comments
Ross returns to Alameda Towne Centre

Management at Alameda Towne Centre have confirmed long-held rumors that a Ross Dress For Less will be returning to the shopping center. The 30,187-square-foot store is tentatively slated to open this fall in the former …

City briefs
1, January 15, 2010 – 5:50 am | No Comment
City briefs

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Towne Centre hosts blood drive
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Alameda Towne Centre is hosting a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, January 16. The Blood Centers of the Pacific “donor coach” will be parked near the …

Planning Board splits on Kohl’s hours, Safeway deliveries; drops pot club ban
1, January 12, 2010 – 5:50 am | 2 Comments
Planning Board splits on Kohl’s hours, Safeway deliveries; drops pot club ban

The Planning Board voted to allow the Alameda Towne Centre Kohl’s to expand its holiday hours but denied the center’s Safeway store the right to start receiving earlier-morning deliveries in a pair of unanimous decisions …

Chip a coin, grant a wish
1, December 22, 2009 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Chip a coin, grant a wish

Looking for a quick and easy way to grant some holiday wishes this season? The folks at Alameda Towne Centre have got just the thing for you. They’re raising money for the Alameda Homeless Network …

Shop pops up at Towne Centre
1, November 20, 2009 – 5:55 am | No Comment
Shop pops up at Towne Centre

The pop-up shop trend is riding a wave into Alameda Towne Centre this weekend, when a group of MFA student artists from California College of the Arts will assemble their work in a mid-mall storefront.
Their …

Truckin’
1, April 28, 2009 – 5:50 am | 5 Comments
Truckin’

Sounds like some of the businesses at Alameda Towne Centre are having a hard time complying with rules that prohibit late-night and early-morning truck deliveries.
Logs kept by the shopping center’s security guards show that trucks …

Someone’s hiring …
1, February 10, 2009 – 8:30 am | No Comment

You know the economy’s seriously in the crapper when people lining up for jobs at a retail outlet becomes news. As in, front-page-of-your-local-paper news. And featured on Bay Area television news as well.
Yep, Kohl’s is …

A protest, of sorts
1, October 15, 2008 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
A protest, of sorts

Did anyone catch the picketers across the way from FutureKohl’s at Alameda Towne Centre? A tipster kindly gave us the head’s up and we went out there. Here’s the details:
Apparently, the folks in the …

Demo permit for OSH?
1, October 15, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

In case you missed it, Tuesday’s Journal has a piece from its estimable former editor, Lucinda Ryan, about the kerfuffle over the potential demolition of the old Safeway building at Alameda Towne Centre for the …