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1. St. Paul's AME Church starts construction on 50 affordable housing units (dailycal.org) — Fifty new affordable apartments are now under construction at St. Paul Terrace on Ashby Avenue, bringing Measure O bond dollars and deeply subsidized homes to South Berkeley. Backed by a $69 million budget, the church‑led project will reserve units for low‑income families and unhoused seniors, advance the Adeline Corridor plan, and add to three Measure O developments totaling 214 homes citywide.
2. Berkeley mail theft suspect had USPS key, police say (berkeleyside.org) — Berkeley residents are being warned after police linked a San Jose man to multiple 2025 mail and package thefts at apartment buildings across the city, allegedly using a USPS master key. The suspect, previously convicted in a 2021 Berkeley mail case, now faces new misdemeanor burglary charges, while another recent Berkeley mail-theft arrest underscores broader Bay Area concerns about mail and identity theft.
3. The Wire: Developer who wants to build Berkeley's tallest building defaults on loan (berkeleyside.org) — A proposed 28‑story tower at Shattuck and University—set to be Berkeley's tallest building—faces new uncertainty after the developer defaulted on a site loan. Also in Berkeley news: a decade‑old homicide case gets a renewed reward offer, UC Berkeley's Student Parent Center operates without professional staff, and a prominent recovery nonprofit names a new executive director.
4. Patrick O'Connor, EWMBA 28, an AWS prototyping engineer, is building what's next (berkeley.edu) — An AWS AI prototyping engineer in the part‑time MBA program at UC Berkeley's Haas School explains how Berkeley's tech ecosystem and proximity to San Francisco's AI scene drew him here. He describes hands‑on classes, connections to Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies, and visits to the Richmond Field Station that are reshaping his approach to innovation and long‑term leadership.
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