Posts Tagged ‘development’

published by the Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 14, 2006 – The debate over the future of Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood might as well be a referendum on the projects developers Ron Kriss and Roy Alper started building here in 2004. Shouts of “too big” and “too many” have grown louder as the pair have bought up half a dozen sites along Telegraph Avenue in Temescal’s pedestrian-scale historic core to build four and five story condominium complexes. The concerns prompted the city to launch a community planning process last spring to update the neighborhood’s zoning.

Alper and Kriss resist being called “developers” in the pejorative sense, just flying in to make a profit. Instead they like to cast themselves as just a couple of guys from the neighborhood trying to revitalize a community they love. (more…)