Gourmet Ghetto

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The North Shattuck Association announced Sept. 27 that it will no longer promote or associate with the area’s well-known name, “Gourmet Ghetto.”

Nicholas Cho, owner of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters, which recently opened its doors in North Berkeley’s historic Gourmet Ghetto district, made an official request Sept. 12 to the North Shattuck Association to rename the business district.

Overall retail usage in Berkeley’s commercial districts has declined from 44.8 percent to 39.4 percent in just three years, according to the city’s Office of Economic Development.

With a mission to make coffee that is grown and harvested by women more accessible and more widely represented in the global economy, the cafe is dedicated to sourcing and roasting coffee from “well established” women’s coffee farm cooperatives in Central America, Africa and South America, according to the Cafenated Coffee website.

An apparent altercation on north Shattuck Avenue left two men injured Wednesday evening— one with a stab wound and the other with a head injury — according to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Officer Byron White.

The Juice Bar Collective, a juice and smoothie shop located in North Berkeley, is set to close its doors Friday after bringing organic juices and eats to the community for 43 years.

A pedestrian was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland after being hit by a vehicle near Gourmet Ghetto in North Berkeley on Sunday evening, according to Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, Lt. Dave Lindenau.

Though not a formally trained artist by trade, Olivier has been collecting trash on the shores of the East Bay — beaches extending from the Bay Bridge to the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge — on his walks with his dogs and constructing these huge, multimaterial sculptures for years.

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