AFTER COVID-19 EMPTIED restaurants and theaters in California’s city centers and businesses adapted to allow staff to work from home, downtowns never returned to their pre-pandemic vibrance.
On a recent Wednesday, Democratic state Assemblymembers Matt Haney of San Francisco and Buffy Wicks of Oakland, joined city leaders in a walking tour of downtown Berkeley. It was the eighth on a multi-city tour they took as members of the Assembly Select Committee on Downtown Recovery, which was established by the Legislature in February. Their goal was to learn from local business owners, residents, art organizations and developers about the challenges they face and determine how to design policies that bring back bustling downtowns.
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