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SAMI ZEGER | 415.887.9216 | [email protected] “Temescal is a good mix of WHAT hipster cool and the real deal,” THE PEOPLE said Jennifer Reed, who was splitting a chocolate ARE SAYING chip cookie with her daughter Esme, 3, at a turquoise ironing board outside Bakesale Betty’s. “If you need to be in San Francisco for work or a A row of former horse stables party, you can get there just off Oakland’s 49th street in 20 minutes on public transit or has become a destination from 20 to 40 minutes driving.” micro community for Bay Area artisans and designers.

- 7x7 Weekend Outing: Oakland’s Temescal Alley “A lot of young families are moving to the area who want that urban feel but where they can build community, too. There are always activities and events brewing in the neighborhood.”

said Darlene Rios Drapkin, manager of the Temescal Telegraph ...Temescal seems Community Association. like a foodie haven.

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Doughnut Dolly Bakesale Betty’s Doña Tomás 482 B 49th St 5098 Telegraph Ave 5004 Telegraph Ave

Located in the hip Temescal “Folks line up for Bakesale “This diverse neighborhood, Alley, Doughnut Dolly is Betty’s, then grab a seat at filled with small homes, charming shop tucked in an one of the ironing boards started to gentrify a decade alley around the block from — no tables here — on the ago with the opening of Doña Pizzaiolo and Bakesale Betty. sidewalk to chow down on Tomás, an upscale Mexican The softball-size doughnuts massive fried chicken sand- restaurant. Today, there are ($3) are a delight - yeast- wiches or luscious strawberry many excellent eateries raised, hand-rolled and filled- shortcakes.” Number of fried packed into a few short to-order. This boutique has chicken sandwiches Bakesale blocks.” made Oakland quite the hub. Betty can sell on a Saturday: 1,100.

Pizzaiolo Burma Superstar Cholita Linda 5008 Telegraph Ave 4721 Telegraph Ave 4923-27 Telegraph Ave

In the morning Pizzaiolo’s Its trendiness means that A favorite stand at the coffee-and-pastry program is you’ll quite likely wait for Temescal Farmer’s Market, one of the best in town. In a table. And once you get Cholita Linda offically opened retail the evening, the crowds head inside, this restaurant’s coolly a brick and mortar store in west over for another Chez Panisse dark design — black bar, black 2014. Know for their fish graduate’s pizzas and pastas. ceiling, black-and-concrete IN TEMESCAL, YOU COME FOR THE FOOD, AND STAY FOR THE FOOD. tacos, adorable decor, and Los Angles Times Travel Section / 03.20.2011 floor compliment its flavors. family vibe, Cholita Linda is a bit hit in Temescal. OAKLAND’S LARGEST EMPLOYERS

retailwest SAMI ZEGER | 415.887.9216 | [email protected] cal Brewing opened in June 2016 at 4115 will be present the week before Christmas.) The Telegraph Avenue with the slogan: “Fresh nearest grocery store, a rebuilt Safeway on Broad- beer. No jerks.” way north of 51st Street, opened in September in a new retail development. The Oakland Public Library Sarita Waite and Raymond Lifchez, who branch at 5205 Telegraph Avenue has a tool-lending TEMESCAL IS helped develop and currently manage the program with more than 5,000 items available. Temescal Alleys complex east of Telegraph EAST BAY’S Avenue at 49th Street, are leasing retail What You’ll Pay spaces at prices they said were below NEW HOT SPOT market rate and were installing a plaza and According to the real estate information website garden in the back for public use “without Homesnap, for this year through Dec. 13, the in kindergarten through fifth grade. commercialization.” When it opens next median sales price of a home in Temescal was $1 On 2015-16 California tests, 19 each recently sold for $1.5 million, a year, this “campo pro bono,” as they envi- million, an increase of 33 percent over the previous percent met standards in English, figure that he said was unsupported by sion it, is expected to be the site of chess year. versus 49 percent statewide; 11 December 17, 2016 the quality and condition of the buildings. games, baby-nursing interludes, live music percent met standards in math, and outdoor film screenings (the movies Only a handful of Temescal listings from various versus 37 percent statewide. Krista Knudsen Thomas has lived in Mr. Michas said Oakland was in high de- are already a summertime ritual hosted by brokers were featured on Redfin’s website as of Temescal, a vibrant multicultural neigh- mand because its prices remained lower Pizzaiolo, a popular restaurant at 5008 Tele- Dec. 13. These included a three-bedroom, two-and- Oakland Technical High School, a borhood in North Oakland, Calif., since than those in San Francisco, and because graph Avenue). a-half-bath house at 4839 Clarke Street, priced at 2007. She moved into a 1920s house on buyers who spent many hours at their $1,050,000; and a two-bedroom, two-bath house at public school at 4351 Broadway 44th Street, one of a pair that the family demanding Bay Area jobs were eager to 412 48th Street, priced at $899,000. that is considered one of the best of her then-boyfriend (now husband) had have the fast, direct access to them that in the city, has about 2,040 stu- bought for a total of about $625,000. the neighborhood offered. dents in ninth to 12th grade. Aver- Her sister-in-law lives in the other age SAT scores at the school for house. “A little compound,” Ms. Knud- But many in the neighborhood are con- 2014-15, the latest year for which sen Thomas, 41, calls the arrangement. cerned about the loss of established comparative data is offered, were businesses and the displacement of low- 515 in reading, 520 in math and From the secure niche, Ms. Knudsen income residents. 503 in writing, versus statewide Thomas, who owns a Pilates studio in averages of 489, 500 and 484. the Montclair Village neighborhood of Some have challenged a proposed Oakland, has watched Temescal develop 24-story development across the street Oakland International High School, with the unevenness of a colt. Referring from the Bay Area Rapid Transit MacAr- a public school at 4521 Webster to the continuing homelessness, crime thur Station on 40th Street. They say that Street, offers college prepara- and spotty conveniences (the neigh- with 402 market-rate apartments (as well tory studies, with an emphasis borhood, for instance, lacks a grocery as 45 affordable ones), it would effective- on English, to students who have store), she said, “There’s an influx of ly be a vertical gated community whose The Vibe recently immigrated. It has about people with more money, but I haven’t height and wealth would be at odds with 350 students in ninth to 12th seen that it’s improved people’s lives.” the area. “It’s like Diagon Alley for hipsters,” said Sam grade. Average SAT scores for Benothman, sitting with his dog, Ace, outside the 2014-15 were 308 in reading, 352 With its appealing stores and fine din- And there were cheers last year when What You’ll Find Temescal Alley Barbershop as he waited for his in math and 327 in writing, versus ing, Telegraph Avenue has helped make the Kingfish Pub & Cafe, which had oper- name to be called. Like the retail hub for wizards statewide averages of 489, 500 Temescal a destination for visitors, but ated on Claremont Avenue since the re- Though Temescal’s boundaries are up for in the Harry Potter books and movies, Temescal and 484. there is concern about the neighbor- peal of Prohibition, moved its entire build- debate, they extend roughly to 51st Street Alley seems like a quaint alternative shopping uni- hood’s future for residents. Realtors ing 35 yards to 5227 Telegraph Avenue to the north, 40th Street to the south, verse. Only steps away from the wide boulevard The Commute say that an overheated housing market after it was threatened with demolition to Broadway to the east and the Grove-Shafter of Telegraph Avenue, with its Korean and Ethio- in the rapidly gentrifying Oakland flats, make way for a condominium project. freeway to the west. pian restaurants, the little pedestrian thoroughfare Temescal is served by the Bay which include Temescal, is driving prices also contrasts with the industrial buildings east on Area Rapid Transit’s MacArthur far above actual property values. At the same time, many of the enter- The typical house is a two- or three-bed- Broadway and the vintage houses with pocket-size Station, on 40th Street, west of prises that give Temescal its cachet not room Craftsman or Mediterranean-style front lawns on the blocks in between. Together, Telegraph Avenue. From there, Alex Michas, a real estate broker who only contribute tax dollars that help it bungalow dating from the 1910s or 1920s. these pieces of Temescal make up a very wide it’s about a 15-minute trip to the lives in the neighborhood, said, “There prosper but are sensitive to the needs There are also small, multifamily apartment world. Embarcadero Station in downtown are times when the difference between of an economically diverse community. buildings and an increasing number of new San Francisco. what the market will pay and what an Ruby’s Garden, for example, a children’s and converted condominiums. The Schools appraiser says a home is worth can be store at 5026 Telegraph, sells new and as much as $100,000 on a million-dollar secondhand clothes so there’s something A farmers’ market is held every Sunday at Emerson Elementary School, a public school at retailwest purchase.” Two houses on his street affordable for everyone, while Temes- 5300 Claremont Avenue. (A knife sharpener 4803 Lawton Avenue, has about 325 students HAPPENINGS AROUND TEMESCAL

Temescal Street Fair

Telegraph Avenue Between 45th & 51st North Oakland Temescal Farmers Market

The festival attracts over 15,000 people of many ethnicities from all over 5300 Claremont Ave. the Bay Area as Temescal has emerged as one of the East Bay’s hippest neighborhoods. Year Round, every Sunday 9am - 1pm The festival is sponsored by the Temescal Telegraph Community Association, founded to revitalize the economic potential of Temescal, In an area where we have one of the world’s renowned farmers’ markets, it is easy to overlook neigh- one of Oakland’s oldest neighborhoods. The event features two stages borhood markets. But the truth is that often we don’t have the time or the will to elbow through the (Main Stage and Kids’ Stage) and promotes local craft artists and cultural crowds at the Ferry Building. On the weeks when you’d like to avoid the weekend farmers’ market performers, representative of the rich mosaic of culture in the area. crush, or you’d simply like some drama-free shopping at markets that will provide you with many of your necessities, consider one of the Bay Area’s neighborhood markets.

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