Upscale furniture business Cream City Restoration has gone dark, literally and figuratively, amid mounting allegations of years of fraudulent and delinquent behavior, and customers left in distress. It’s a troubling turn of events for a once celebrated business. I first visited CCR four years ago, when owners and husband and […]
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Serina Calhoun has worked as an architect in San Francisco for 21 years and has faced plenty of headache-inducing projects, but the renovation of a Bernal Heights fixer-upper that she took on in 2020 stands out as truly atrocious. Many of the city’s worst story lines converged at the seemingly […]
The Citizen staff The Auburn building inspector has issued the following permits from Jan. 24-Feb. 25: • Craig S. Woodward, install patio door for owner Jason W. Gavras at 4 Bowen St., $3,000. • Jason W. Gavras, remodel bathroom at 4 Bowen St., $1,500. • Auburn Community Hospital, complete renovation […]
It didn’t take long for Leonard Powell to see how a home makeover can spiral out of control. What started as a five-month construction job at the 79-year-old’s Berkeley home dragged on for more than a year. Budgets were blown on stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and a new front […]
