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Greer Alley, pictured in the garden of her Rockridge home, designed the new Rockridge BART Plaza on a pro bono basis as part of her philosophy that “people should do more community service.” /Judy Berne from page 1 bono project two years ago. By the t...

By Judith Doner Berne

Greer Alley’s aim in designing the newly configured plaza that opened in early October, a decade after it was first envisioned. By day, “I hope it’s a place that people gather, meet each other and have community,” she says. And at night, when subtle l...

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Monroe, Dale Alley, Craig Lyall, Eric Jabobsen & Greer Alley. /Dom di Mento n Emerson Elementary n Claremont Middle School n Oakland Tech High School n Women’s Cancer Resource Center n Lions Center for the Blind. Tickets, $30/person, at the BID (Business Improvement District) office, 510-49th #203. ...

By Greer Alley

by Greer Alley, Rockridge resident Our neighborhood on Ocean View Drive between Broadway and Margarido has a magnet that we all refer to as the community Garden. This is a story about that long block of neighbors in Rockridge that came together as a comm...

...s and clogging our landfill facilities with plastics that will not decompose for 500 years. I reached out several times to our Councilman Dan Kalb’s office regarding this subject, but no response of interest in this subject was received. n Greer Alley, Ocean View Dr In Oakland City parks, sports fields and public playgrounds, the answer to this question from our city admin-

Rockridge for Garfield thanks friends, neighbors and the following merchants, businesses and artists for their generous donations: A Cété; Greer Alley Landscape Design; Barrow Salon: Belotti’s; Ben ‘n Nick’s; Berkeley Studio Personal Trainers; Greg Blide Tennis Lessons; Noah Camene Hair Stylist; Cole Hardware; Margaret Dorfman; East Bay Booksellers; Eddie’s Liquors; Jule’s Thin Crust Piz...

By Annie Suttle

...new play features: bucket swings, more regular swings, a merry-go-round climber, pole spinners and a see-saw. This fundraising effort has included: Circle K. ■ ■R e p l a n t e d t h e butterfly garden, newly designed by Rockridge resident Greer Alley, with plant donations from Ace Grand Avenue Hardware and Keep Oakland Beautiful grant funding. Kids hanging out on one of Frog park’s large play structures. /Ken Rice Please consider a year-end gift to Frog Park, especially businesses whos...

April 26 Earth Day and Frog Park Family Fest We thank Greer Alley, Grand Lake Ace Garden Center, Bakesale Betty’s, Alem’s Coffee, Semifreddi’s, Americorps, Park Supervisor Giacomo Damonte, city gardener Lydia Swann, irrigation specialist Laura Compton, baker Jenna Brotman, community members and volunteer...

By Victoria Eisen

Mario Rollan, BART construction engineer, and Landscape Designer Greer Alley, the Rockridge resident who designed and worked to make the new Rockridge BART station plaza a reality, look to an October opening. Photos, captions/Judy Berne

Avenue, directly opposite the DMV. Repre- sentatives from DaVita will present plans for improving the grounds and a timeline for in consultation with landscape architect Greer Alley, installed 12 Sierra Granite boulders weighing a total of 23 tons. A compass rose has been completed and will be set in the plaza once the concrete work is complete. Designed primarily by Austin Cho with assistance from Cosmin Haims, it is...

By Carroll Moore

I would like to extend a special thank you to volunteer Landscape Designer Greer Alley, who not only conceived most of the plans but has also been spending countless hours making sure all of the details of the project are being followed. /Carroll Moore    
 
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By Bob Franklin

...k the plaza. The plaza will meet the criteria estab- lished in a community survey completed in 2003-4, and in numerous public meetings since then, where the community sought an improved waiting area with better lighting. Landscape designer Greer Alley volun- teered her time to translate the community’s vision into a colorful proposal that con- formed to BART’s specifications. About

By Bob Franklin

...kridge” sign y y Assembly of large boulders y y Serpentine concrete bench y y Compass rose in sidewalk y y College Avenue (at right) y y BART station escalator (foreground, not in view) At the May RCPC Town Hall meeting, landscape designer Greer Alley presented several conceptual representations of her ideas implementing publicly solicited criteria for the development of Rockridge Plaza at the intersection of College and Keith avenues. The graphic above broadly depicts proposed design e...

By Bob Franklin

been added for clarity.) Graphic courtesy of Greer Alley will make the plaza much more community friendly. Lastly, a row of large boulders – a rock ridge – will be placed in the planter, to invoke the namesake of the community. After the construction is complete, some artistic elements will be a...

Keith Avenue L andscape Designer Greer Alley’s plan for the plaza was followed by BART architects and engineers as they prepared project development plans. The graphic at left is an adaptation of a plan view graphic prepared by BART, and oriented to the photo above. Technical nomencl...

By Stuart Flashman

...dels making the effort to steward the Earth and community resources. A huge amount of work was accomplished, thanks to Rockridge and Temes- cal neighbors and friends. For more D. Kinkead Makeover for BART Area at Keith and College Designer Greer Alley, left, Market Hall owner Sara Wilson, RCPC boardmember Ann Winterman, and BART board President Bob Franklin present the BART Plaza proposal at the April RCPC Town Hall. Story on page 10. ➧➧Earth Day at FROG Park, page 12

By Don Kinkead

...a. Seen as a destination for BART passengers and College Avenue strollers and shoppers, the area’s design is keyed on the Rockridge name. A variegated line of large stones — “A ridge of rock,” said volunteer designer and Rockridge resident Greer Alley — capped by brawny metal letters spelling the well-known area’s name, will be on the College Avenue side of the plaza area. On the other side, a serpentined concrete

By Don Kinkead

project, said she found it a successful design. Project presenters Greer Alley, Bob Franklin of BART, Sara Wilson of Market Hall and RDA, and Ann Winterman of RCPC said money for the project and approval for the plans are in place. Franklin, a Rockridge resident and an early project supporter, obtained BART support a...

By Ann Winterman

...rectional signage, and appreciate the three tall redwoods that grace the square. The collaboration of the organizations gained momentum in April following the generous contributions of two long-term area residents: local landscape designer Greer Alley created a smart and beautiful

OCEAN VIEW NEIGH- BORS TIE ONE ON Overseeing this digni- fied holiday event is Ulla Alley (with cap). Her helpers are, left to right, Suzanne Van = Bemmel, Dale Alley (enclosed in bow,) Jay Van Bemmel, Trish West, and Greer fee Alley, who originated wean che tradition of deco-