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The station building was designated a Berkeley Landmark in 2001. The current platform opened on September 17, 2005, after a $2.4-million renovation. [ 8 ] Additional renovation work included installation of nighttime lighting, benches and landscaping; improved access for people with disabilities; and street repaving and new striping for more ...
The station building was then converted to a restaurant [4] called the Santa Fe Bar and Grill [5] and functioned in that capacity until 2000. [2] In 2001, it was purchased by the Berkeley Montessori School and redeveloped into a private school. [2] That same year, the building was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark.
Berkeley station may refer to: Berkeley station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), a former train station in Berkeley, California; Berkeley station (Southern Pacific Railroad), a former train station in Berkeley, California; Berkeley station (California), an Amtrak station in Berkeley, California
The station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, and Bechtel. [8] In 1995, BART changed the name of the station from "Berkeley" to "Downtown Berkeley" in an effort to minimize confusion between this station and North Berkeley. [citation needed]
In 1972, the name "Berkeley Station" was revived as the name of the BART stop in downtown Berkeley, but was changed to "Downtown Berkeley" in the 1990s. The Amtrak stop adjacent to the old West Berkeley depot at Third and University is currently called "Berkeley Station". The depot itself survives, but is currently vacant.
The East Bay Electric Lines were a unit of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated electric interurban-type trains in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2] Beginning in 1862, the SP and its predecessors [a] operated local steam-drawn ferry-train passenger service in the East Bay on an expanding system of lines, but in 1902 the Key System started a competing system of ...
West Berkeley was one of the Bay Area's principal industrial zones up until about the 1960s, after which it began to decline. Several well-known companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, Heinz, Canada Dry, Pacific Steel Casting, and Cutter Labs had plants in West Berkeley. West Berkeley was also home to Fantasy Studios, a film and music production ...
North Berkeley station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the North Berkeley neighborhood of Berkeley, California. It is bounded by Virginia Street, Sacramento Street, Delaware Street, and Acton Street in a residential area north of University Avenue .