Steve Lowe

Oakland Developer Steve Lowe is best known as the co-creator of Old Oakland, a collection of restored Victorian buildings at and near 9th and Washington in Downtown Oakland.

Economic Stimulus For Oakland Or The Greater Bay Area Metropolitan Region? – Steve Lowe

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Zennie62Media note: Steve Lowe is an Oakland landscape architect and developer who’s holds the following civic titles: VP, West Oakland Commerce Association VP, Jack London District Association Boardmember, Old Oakland Neighbors Member, West Oakland Community Advisory Group Coordinator, WOJLOO! Co-Founder (1973), Old Oakland Project But his claim to fame is the development of Old Oakland: … Read more

Will The Federal Government Stimulus Help The Bay Area Economy, And How? By Steve Lowe

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Where should the Bay Area place any stimulus funding from DC in order to restart our Covid-wracked economy if the individual cities here don’t each get a whopper check from Steve Mnuchin? Commonsense pretty much dictates that it’ll have to be where any large project – or a package made up of interrelated, small to … Read more

Do The Oakland A’s Deserve F’s In Ballpark Community Planning Asks Steve Lowe?

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MEMO: From: Steve Lowe To Zennie Abraham Date: August 20,2019 Oakland (Near Jack London Square) – I guess we’d all be happier, at least those of us living here in the Jack London District, Old Oakland and West Oakland (WOJLOO!), if the A’s were just a little more concerned, sincere and forthcoming about wanting to … Read more

Re: A TIF-Based Solution To The SF Bay Area Homeless Crisis (City State History)

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Hi Zennie! This is my rebuttal to your post “A TIF-Based Solution To The SF Bay Area Homeless Crisis.” I think we’ve discussed that, as the “Strongest Regional Economy in the World,” the Bay Area needs to face up to its all but palpable destiny as a megalopolitan city-state and begin dealing with the unconscionable … Read more

On Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Homeless Issue, And Regionalism: Steve Lowe

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Steve Lowe, the developer of Old Oakland in Downtown Oakland, wrote this response to Oakland News Now creator and Zennie62Media Founder and CEO Zennie Abraham’s post on what Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf should do to get the County of Alameda to give it’s host city a necessary level of funding to cope with the homeless … Read more

Does Gavin Newsom Know Or Care About Oakland? Steve Lowe Blog

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While I too spent a bunch of time in San Francisco’s Marina District, Union Street and Cow Hollow – my family lived just three or so blocks up from the Balboa Cafe on Fillmore – I never got to know California Governor Gavin Newsom or “GovGav” at all, having moved on to Marin back in … Read more

Is San Francisco Bay Area The Strongest Regional Economy In The World?

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“The Strongest Regional Economy in the World?” Crisis management and containment in any emergency is an obvious necessity to guard against rampant expansion and to prevent widespread damage; it is therefore irresponsible for our Regional Agencies to remain in the background any longer while the Bay Area’s least adequately funded cities, Oakland in particular, must struggle to combat our … Read more

Toward An SF Bay Area Forum On Social Media’s Dysfunctional Impact On Society

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This is a response to a Facebook Post-turned Oakland News Now blog post on Al Attles III’s view that social media is responsible for social dysfunction. Maybe the answer to the anguished question posed by Al Attles III is to have him help organize a Bay Area-specific forum that can draw together any number of … Read more

Will Donald Trump’s Space Force Save America From The Apocalypse? Steve Lowe

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Will Donald Trump’s Space Force save America from The Apocalypse? Let’s suppose for a minute that at least one of this Not-My-President’s ideas might work out to help our wheezing planet survive the onslaught of depredation from his cabal of oligarchs – after all, even a stopped clock displays the correct time twice a day … Read more

Amy Klobuchar Will Be President Of The United States

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Here’s why Amy Klobuchar, Senior Senator of Minnesota, will be the next President of the United States! Assuming the Democratic Party leadership can ever make it over the hump and come to the painfully obvious conclusion that a divided party equates to the weakest possible support for a candidate – as happened with Hillary Clinton … Read more

City Of Oakland Is Not Meeting Its Economic Development Potential

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I saw (most of) Zennie Abraham’s recent video critiquing Marisa Raya’s presentation to the Oakland Community and Economic Development Committee on May 8th, and think that it does merit consideration in a number of areas, most specifically for me, regarding the lack of attention paid to Oakland’s unrealized regional mandate as the epicenter of “The … Read more