5/29/2023 0 Comments Space punks local co opMarienthal added that Haber appears to have access to financing that gives him the ability to make the kinds of changes to warehouse spaces that the city is demanding. As a result, he confirmed that he has been in talks with Haber about selling his building, although he’s yet to sign any deal. Marienthal says, though, that the final plan’s price tag was more than double the insurance payout he received from the fire. But we basically had to redesign the building,” he said. “Finally, we came up with a plan the city found acceptable. “I would much rather have been able to rebuild the building right away, the way it was, and continue renting to the tenants who were there,” he said.īut the city rejected several rounds of plans, Marienthal claimed, which made it too expensive to rehab the units and keep rents affordable. Marienthal told the Express that his tenants were wrong about his intentions, and that the city’s extremely strict demands were to blame. “As is the story with too many buildings in Oakland these days, the owner is going to use this opportunity to do capital improvements and hike up rents,” the email’s sender claimed. One email sent to Oakland Deputy City Attorney Richard Illgen by a former resident of the 24th Street warehouse, and obtained through a Public Records Act request, called Marienthal an “exceedingly difficult landlord.” The city redacted the renter’s name, but the sender accused Marienthal of attempting to use the fire to permanently evict his tenants. “He still hasn’t had any work done on the building,” Strauss said in a recent interview. Jonah Strauss, who lived in the 24th Street warehouse where the fire started, described how residents had to wake up one-another and rush to safety as flames leapt from windows.Īfter the fire, he and other tenants in his building accused their landlord, Kim Marienthal, of delaying and not making the necessary repairs so they could move back in. Many of them had hopes of returning after their landlords made repairs. All of the residents, as well as AK Press and the collective 1984 Printing, were forced out. Two people died: Davis Letona, 27, and Daniel “Moe” Thomas, 36.Īfter the blaze, city building inspectors closed both properties. Early in the morning of March 21, 2015, a fire tore through an apartment in the adjoining building, 671 24th Street. It works for people who can come in, gobble up these buildings, and take advantage of this situation,” said Jose Palafox, a past resident of the 23rd Street Warehouse. Both warehouses were closed by the city in March 2015 after a fire.įormer residents of the two warehouses say their situation illustrates how, long before the Ghost Ship tragedy, the city was cracking down on counterculture spaces, and investors were exploiting fires and building-code problems to displace people from their homes. He’s also in talks to purchase the adjoining warehouse, at 671 24th Street. Now, Haber has filed plans with the city to turn the AK Press location into a 24-unit live-work space. They allege Haber engaged in a campaign of harassment to drive them out of their homes in order to redevelop the buildings and maximize rents. No stranger to controversy, Haber is currently being sued by the displaced tenants of another Oakland warehouse, 1919 Market Street, and also by residents of the Travelers Hotel, an SRO in Chinatown. In September, the warehouse - which formerly housed the anarchist publishing collective AK Press - was quietly sold to a company controlled by the developer Danny Haber. Now, it’s owned by a developer known for converting affordable housing into tech-worker dorms. For more than two decades, the brick warehouse at 674 23rd Street in West Oakland was a hub of anti-capitalist praxis. Proof like, “You said that to the last muthaf*cka and he dead”. I don’t think Proof knew ’Pac like that, but he appreciated his music and his art. “What the f*ck you wanna shake his hand for?” He p# at me. F*ck all the dumb sh*t, ’Pac dead and gone, but this muthaf*cka had Death Row Records. Proof was one of the founding members of platinum-selling group D12, as well as the man responsible for Eminem’s success…according to Eminem himself.įormer labelmate Obie Trice recently shared a story about a trip he and Proof took to Las Vegas, where they happened to bump into Suge Knight and Proof tried to punk him. Today marks the six-year anniversary of the death of rapper Proof.
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