A new dog park has opened under the BART tracks in South Berkeley — near the site along Adeline Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way where the “Here There” homeless protest encampment put down roots for six years until it was shut down by the city in 2023.
The 8,000-square-foot, as-yet-unnamed dog park is part of a suite of landscaping work around the intersection.
Across the street to the south, next to the Buslab auto shop, the city has planted a Miyawaki forest — a type of “pocket” forest, popularized by a Japanese botanist, that first came to the U.S. through projects in Berkeley schools.
The dog park includes a drinking fountain, garbage cans and benches. Other landscaping additions around the intersection include native and pollinator-friendly plants, decorative fencing and boulders…