In the heart of Berkeley stands a corrugated metal kingdom where twenty-five bucks can furnish a room, outfit a kitchen, or send you home with a carload of treasures that would cost hundreds elsewhere.
Urban Ore isn’t just a secondhand store – it’s a sprawling wonderland where budget-conscious shoppers become wide-eyed explorers in an ever-changing landscape of the previously loved.
The faded blue “URBAN ORE ECOPARK” lettering on the industrial exterior gives little hint of the treasures within.
From the outside, it resembles the kind of place where you’d buy construction supplies or meet an informant in a 1970s crime drama…