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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 McDonald’s parking lot. For information or to make an appointment, call Wendy Theisen at (415)517-9117 or e-mail her at wtheisen@bloodcenters.org. [...]
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 Monday night (and they were all there by the way, for the first time in recent memory).
Board members who were [...]
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 to benefit Midway Shelter. And all you have to do is chip some coins into their Frog Fountain at center [...]
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 Super Pop-Up Shop, which has its grand opening from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, offers shoppers the chance to learn [...]
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 turned up at the center almost daily between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., sometimes up to seven [...]
Someone’s hiring …
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 getting ready to open up at Alameda Towne Centre in April, and last week, they sent a postcard in the [...]
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 local lathers union are a wee bit miffed about the business practices of a contractor working the Kohl’s job. They [...]
Demo permit for OSH?
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 Orchard Supply Hardware that is slated to move in. (We’d link, but it’s not online as of this writing.)
Ryan reports [...]
TOWNE CENTRE APPEAL DENIED
UPDATED 11:16 AM
At 2:15 this morning, the City Council voted against taking another look at the environmental assessment of a proposed expansion at Alameda Towne Centre. Councilman Doug deHaan, who went several contentious rounds with the Towne Centre-folk over vacancy rates, city staff over notification and his fellow council members over we can’t even remember [...]
A train wreck at Towne Centre
And here we thought we’d get an early night Monday. Ha!
The Planning Board was slated to approve a plan to allow Alameda Towne Centre to expand to about 706,000 square feet from its current size of about 600,000 square feet, most of which would go to a second story for the soon-to-be-Kohl’s and shoreline improvements [...]
The trucks of Towne Centre
Looks like the folks at Alameda Towne Centre are making a few concessions to neighbors to try to get a proposed expansion of the shopping center through.
The Planning Board is slated to discuss the proposed changes before it votes on a planned development amendment to expand the center at its meeting tonight.
The center’s owners, Harsch [...]
