Bay Street Emeryville is a large

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Emeryville, California Emeryville is a city located in northwest Alameda County, California, in the United States. It lies in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley, California, Berkeley and Oakland, California, Oakland, with a border on the shore of San Francisc ...

which currently has 65 stores, ten restaurants, a sixteen-screen movie theater, 230 room hotel, and 400 residential units with 1,000 residents.Information
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access date 04-03-2009

Surroundings

It is near several hotels, an

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store,

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, and three other shopping centers: East Bay Bridge Shopping Center, Emeryville Marketplace, and Powell Street Plaza. The mall was built on the site of the

Emeryville Shellmound The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, a once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil, temple and burial ground containing a high concentration of hu ...

. Temescal Creek runs spring water and Emeryville urban through the property in a channelized open

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with concrete lining to the confluence with the

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at the Crescent wetlands.Temescal Creek Watershed Map
Museum of California, access date 04-03-2009 It is adjacent to Interstates 80 and 580 in addition to the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge and the

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. It is across from the Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve.

History

The mall has the only LEED certified West Elm that also provides some of its own solar energy, with a grass roof to provide habitat for insects, and substantial use of sky lights to reduce energy use. The mall is built on an

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Indian burial ground and

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and former toxic waste site. Since 2001 there has been a "don't buy anything day" hosted at the site by descendants of the

s that believe the site has desecrated the resting place of their ancestors. In 2010 the mall began to attract tourists to a

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made out of 84 shopping carts. The unique tree created by artist Anthony Schmitt originated from Santa Monica, California, where it was displayed every winter season until 2014. New general management took over in 2017. In 2021 Bay Street Emeryville was sold by UBS Realty Investors and acquired by CentreCal Properties based in Southern California.

Stores

Bay Street features a mix of upscale and traditional mall retailers, with a two-level

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bookstore, flagship West Elm and

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stores. Four

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brands: Gap,

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, Athleta, and separate men's and women's

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stores all closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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(closed), P.F. Chang's China Bistro (closed), and

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restaurants,

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, standalone H&M men's and women's stores, and an

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cinema are also present.

Transportation access

The mall has public transport access by

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local bus line 36 between the West Oakland BART station and the

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, furthermore transbay commuter routes C, F, J to the

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and Z

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from San Francisco to Emeryville. the Emeryville Amtrak Station, and free

Emery-go-Round Emery Go-Round is a fare-free public bus system serving Emeryville, California, a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Service is funded primarily by commercial property owners through a citywide transportation business i ...

shuttles on the Shellmound/Powell line to MacArthur BART station and other areas in the city. Parking, originally free, now costs US$2–10 depending on the length of stay. The fees have been controversial, as they have been consistently raised over the years.

References

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* {{Shopping malls in California Shopping malls in the San Francisco Bay Area Emeryville, California Shopping malls established in 2002 Shopping malls in Alameda County, California Hotels established in 2002 Tourist attractions in Alameda County, California Mixed-use developments in California Ohlone