Bay Area cities rethink downtown revitalization strategies

Kimberley Davidson has lived in Oakland her whole life and remembers when she could spend all day and all night downtown. She says you still “can-ish” but that it’s harder, and one has to know exactly where to go.

“I’m scared for downtown sometimes,” she said.

She dons a glossy expression while recalling the mid-2010s and days spent at Lake Merritt that inevitably finished with a bar-hop around downtown…

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