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The City Hall is depicted on the city seal of Oakland. Oakland City Hall in 1917. The building was designed by New York–based architecture firm Palmer & Hornbostel in 1910, after winning a nationwide design competition. [5] The building, constructed in the Beaux-Arts style, resembles a "rectangular wedding cake". [5] It consists of three tiers.
The Coliseum, along with Oracle Arena and its surrounding parking lots, were owned 50% by the City of Oakland and 50% by the Athletics. [90] The Athletics purchased their 50% share in 2018 from Alameda County, after the City of Oakland dropped a lawsuit that attempted to block the sale. [90]
In 1998, the Oakland City Council renamed City Hall Plaza as "Frank H. Ogawa Plaza" [10] in honor of Frank H. Ogawa, a civil rights leader [11] and the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland City Council. [10] Ogawa served on the Council from 1966 until his death in 1994. [12] The plaza displays a bronze bust of Ogawa.
Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s.
The Oakland Fire Department was initially started in the 1860s as a volunteer fire department and was officially formed on March 13, 1869, when its first fire station was built. [5] In 1908 the department bought their first motorized fire engine and in the 1920s, the department became one of the first in the nation to hire African American ...
The Oakland City Council adopted a Bicycle Master Plan in 1999 as a part of the Land Use and Transportation (LUTE) element of Oakland's 1998 General Plan. The creation of the plan was to promote alternatives to the private automobile. [206] The Oakland City Council reaffirmed the bike plan in 2005, revised it in 2007, and reaffirmed it in 2012.
FBI raids in Oakland — including at the home of Mayor Sheng Thao — have cast a spotlight on a years-long probe into the political influence of the Duong family and California Waste Solutions.
Oakland Municipal Auditorium / Henry J. Kaiser Center: 10 Tenth Street April 3, 1979 28 Oakland City Hall: 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza June 19, 1979 29 St. Augustine's / Old Trinity Church: 29th Street & Telegraph Avenue December 4, 1979 30 Earl Warren House: 88 Vernon Street December 4, 1979 31 Oakland Hotel: 13th St., Harrison St., 14th & Alice ...