Downtown Oakland tour
From SPUR:
10:42 PM PDT on June 26, 2011
From SPUR:
Since Mayor Jerry Brown called for 10,000 new residential housing units in downtown Oakland more than a decade ago, the city has been preparing itself for more growth. Join us for a walking tour of downtown Oakland to see some of these recent changes and what lies ahead. Our tour will be led by Oakland Planning Commissioner Madeleine Zayas-Mart and architect Morten Jensen and will include short meetings with a number of experts.
Tour length: 2 hours
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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