Emeryville, California City of Emeryville Emeryville as seen from a small-town highrise hotel Emeryville as seen from a small-town highrise hotel The town/city of Emeryville highlighted inside Alameda County The town/city of Emeryville highlighted inside Alameda County City of Emeryville is positioned in the US City of Emeryville - City of Emeryville Emeryville is a small town/city located in northwest Alameda County, California, in the United States.
It is positioned in a corridor between the metros/cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay.
Its adjacency to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth.
In addition, a several well known biotech and software companies have made their home in Emeryville: Electronic Arts' Maxis Software division, now closed, Leap - Frog, Sendmail, Mobi - TV, Novartis (formerly Chiron before April 2006), and Big - Fix (now IBM).
The populace was 10,080 as of 2010, although it swells considerably on weekdays due to the city's position as a county-wide employment center Emeryville has some features of an edge city; however, it is positioned inside the inner urban core of the Oakland/greater East Bay and was heavily industrialized before the First World War.
Mudflats rich with clams and rocky areas with oysters, plus fishing, hunting, and acorns from the small-town oak trees provided a rich and easily exploited food origin for the residents, who disposed of their clam and oyster shells in a single place, over time creating a huge mound, the Emeryville Shellmound. During the Spanish and Mexican eras, Emeryville was the site of a small wharf near the mouth of Temescal Creek adjoining to the shellmound.
The handling of cattle continued into the American era with the establishment of various meat packing plants along the bayshore in Emeryville between 67th and 63rd Streets in an region called "Butchertown".
Emeryville's first postal service opened in 1884. The Town of Emeryville was incorporated December 2, 1896.
Although positioned in Emeryville, the depot, which opened in 1902, was called "Oakland".
The Key System, a small-town transit company, acquired the general offices of the California and Nevada as well as their nascent pier into San Francisco Bay, which was quickly transformed into a long pier reaching nearly to Yerba Buena Island.
The rail yards and shops of the Key System and Santa Fe were acquired by Santa Fe's real estate evolution arm, later known as the Catellus Development Corporation, and this firm proceeded to precarious the site into a shopping center and multiunit residentiary precinct which remains there today.
On February 22, 1920 the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opened in Emeryville.
Emeryville used to be as well known for its gambling homes and bordellos as it was for its booming industrialized sector; then Alameda County precinct attorney, later California governor and then Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren once famously called it "the rottenest town/city on the Pacific Coast". During the Depression, Emeryville was jammed with speakeasies, racetracks and brothels and became known as a somewhat lawless center for entertainment. The prominent small-town restaurant The Townhouse is one such trace, a locale that once was a speakeasy amid Prohibition.
Emeryville was the site of Oaks Park, the home turf of the Pacific Coast League's Oakland Oaks.
The ballpark was positioned on the block bounded by San Pablo, 45th Street and Park Street (the fourth side was Watts Street).
During World War II, Emeryville was the southern end of the Shipyard Railway, a specially constructed electric rail line directed by the Key System to transport workers to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond.
From the late 19th into the early 20th century, Emeryville's evolution as an industrialized city grew.
A heavy truck manufacturing division of what was formerly I-H (International-Harvester Company, later Navistar) was positioned in Emeryville.
By the late 1960s, industries were beginning to move away from Emeryville and the appearance of the town/city seriously declined.
This began to change in the mid 1970s starting with the evolution of the marina section of Emeryville.
Following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, a new Amtrak depot was assembled in Emeryville to replace the old 16th Street Station in West Oakland, which had been deteriorating even before it was seriously damaged by the quake.
The Emeryville station serves Amtrak's California Zephyr, Coast Starlight, San Joaquin, and Capitol Corridor trains.
The California Zephyr originates here with service daily to Chicago, Illinois via Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado.
Development of these areas encompassed major roadwork, with the extension of 40th Street, including the assembly of a large overpass athwart the Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) barns tracks which connected 40th Street to an extension of Shellmound Street, creating a single thoroughfare linking two sections of the new Emeryville.
In 2007, the end of Yerba Buena Avenue was linked with the northern end of the Mandela Parkway, creating a new through route between Emeryville and West Oakland.
In 2001, the town/city contracted developer Madison Marquette to build a new shopping center, the Bay Street Shopping Center, on the former site of an Ohlone village and burial ground, which by that point was occupied by a defunct paint factory.
Emeryville is often referenced in the NBC comedy series Parenthood, as the home of Sarah Braverman, the second earliest of the four siblings.
Early on, Sarah lives in Fresno, and when she announces moving to Emeryville, her mother remarks, "Emeryville? According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), of which, 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) of it is territory and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) of it (38.02%) is water.
In the 1970s, one of the last man-made marinas in the San Francisco East Bay was assembled in Emeryville; titled Watergate, the Emeryville marina is home to a different use evolution including two marinas (one public, the other private), a park, a residentiary condominium improve known as Watergate, a company park with a several office buildings, and a several restaurants, including Hong Kong East Ocean and the historic Trader Vic's.
Main article: Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve Emeryville's mudflats At one time, the Emeryville Mudflats were famous for their stench.
Later on, improving sewage from Emeryville, Oakland, and Berkeley flowed directly into the bay over the mudflats producing hydrogen sulfide gas, especially substantial on warm days.
In the 1950s the East Bay Municipal Utility District constructed a county-wide sewage treatment plant near the easterly end of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, which, for the most part, cured the noxious problem.
The Emeryville Mudflats became famous in the 1960s and 1970s for enhance art, erected (with neither permission nor compensation) from driftwood timbers and boards by experienced and amateur artists and art students from small-town high schools, UC Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Free University of Berkeley.
These unsanctioned works were admired by some drivers heading westbound on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge from Interstate 80.
Historically, Emeryville had been the locale of a number of heavy industrialized uses such as P.I.E, whose properties were advanced by bringing in waste and assembly debris fill from San Francisco in the early 1900s.
Emeryville has a Mediterranean climate.
Climate data for Emeryville, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Emeryville had a populace of 10,080.
The ethnic makeup of Emeryville was 4,490 (44.5%) White, 1,764 (17.5%) African American, 44 (0.4%) Native American, 2,775 (27.5%) Asian, 16 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 348 (3.5%) from other competitions, and 643 (6.4%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 10,007 citizens (99.3% of the population) lived in homeholds, 73 (0.7%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 1,031 citizens (10.2%) under the age of 18, 1,064 citizens (10.6%) aged 18 to 24, 4,675 citizens (46.4%) aged 25 to 44, 2,304 citizens (22.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,006 citizens (10.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
3,365 citizens (33.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 6,642 citizens (65.9%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 11.4% under the age of 18, 13.4% from 18 to 24, 42.2% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Enumeration Bureau, 2009 Population Estimates, 9,866 citizens resided in Emeryville in 2009.
Emeryville Center for Community Life is a joint universal of the City of Emeryville and the Emery Unified School District advanced by the Nexus Partners.
The new center will be constructed at the site of the existing Emery Secondary School, which along with Anna Yates School will be closed once the center is completed.
The center will consist of a new 3 story multi-use campus, incorporating an elementary school, secondary school, improve center, and space for civil service providers, plus pre school and day care facilities, multi-use sports fields and improve theater.
Emery Unified School District serves the students in Emeryville and parts of Oakland. Its schools, both in the same site, are Anna Yates Elementary School and Emery Secondary School.
Ex'pression College for Digital Arts is a private, for-profit college located in Emeryville.
Many businesses have set up command posts in the city. Companies based in Emeryville include: Although established in San Francisco (where a postal service box mailing address is maintained), the label's actual office and warehouse space are in Emeryville.
In their movie The Incredibles, a map is shown on the dashboard of the hero's car, recognizable as part of Emeryville near Pixar's headquarters.
Also, a "Welcome to Emeryville" sign is briefly seen in their 2006 film Cars.
As part of an urban renewal project, a several shopping centers opened in the late 1990s next to the intersection of Interstate highways 80 and 580, capitalizing on Emeryville's access to San Francisco as well as to East Bay customers.
A new retail and residentiary evolution titled Bay Street Emeryville now sits along Highway 80 and is home to such merchants as Banana Republic, GAP, Coach and the Apple Store, and restaurants such as California Pizza Kitchen and Pasta Pomodoro.
According to the City's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: The Emeryville Amtrak station looking south Emeryville has an Amtrak station, which is the end of the California Zephyr line and is also the San Francisco area's access to the "Coast Starlight" line.
The station serves San Francisco bound passengers via a bus connector over the Bay Bridge, as there is no Amtrak train service to any town/city on the San Francisco Peninsula (including San Francisco).
The station is positioned about two miles (3 km) west of the Mac - Arthur BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Station in Oakland.
To supplement the bus service provided by AC Transit, the small-town transit agency, the town/city runs a no-charge shuttle service called Emery Go Round that serves Mac - Arthur BART, the Amtrak station, the Bay Street shops, the Watergate condominium complex and close-by marina, and other locations throughout the town/city and into Berkeley.
Freeway access to Emeryville is provided by a key section of Interstate 80, just north of where that freeway meets Interstate 880 and Interstate 580 in a primary interchange known as the Mac - Arthur Maze.
Emeryville also maintains a small marina with limited services.
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