ATHLETICS CITY

The City of Oakland has the following Professional Sports franchises; Oakland Athletics, Major League Baseball, Oakland Raiders, National Football League, Golden State Warriors, National Basketball Association. Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County. As of four years ago, the city's population was 399,484, making it the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area after San Jose and San Francisco. Oakland's media reputation is as a high-crime city with a crumbling public education system. However, weather, location, hillside neighborhoods with stunning views of San Francisco and the Bay, aggressive policies to reduce crime, and a substantial offering of shopping districts and restaurants representing cuisines both homegrown and worldwide have led real estate prices to skyrocket in the past decade. Tourist attractions in Oakland include the Oakland Museum, the Art Deco Paramount Theater, Chinatown, Jack London Square, Lake Merritt, Children's Fairyland and Network Associates Coliseum, home to the Oakland Raiders National Football League team, the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team, and the Golden State Warriors National Basketball Association team. The city's commercial and residential structures exhibit a great variety of styles, including Art Deco and Craftsman. The Oakland Tribune published its first newspaper on February 21, 1874. The Tribune Tower, which sports a clock, is one of Oakland's landmarks. Some other Attractions in Oakland include Lake Merritt, Jack London Square, and the Oakland Zoo. The USS Potomac, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, is berthed in Oakland. Oakland, founded in 1852, is a city on the east side (aka East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. To its north is Berkeley, home to the famous university campus (University of California, Berkeley). To its west is San Francisco, across the Bay Bridge. To its south is the city of San Leandro, and to the east Oakland is bounded by five of the East Bay Regional Parks. Oakland is home of the Port of Oakland, which is one of three major shipping ports on the US West coast. Oakland hosts Oakland International Airport, which serves much of the low-cost air traveler's market from the San Francisco Bay Area. The city of Oakland stretches from San Francisco Bay up into the East Bay Hills. Along the way, numerous neighborhoods reach from the "flatlands" neighborhoods which include the historically working-class areas of West Oakland, North Oakland, Fruitvale, and East Oakland up into the foothill districts (Grand Lake, Lakeshore-Trestle Glen, the Glenview, Lincoln Heights, the Laurel, Redwood Heights, Maxwell Park, Eastmont, and Millsmont), and into the high hills communities (North Hills, Hiller Highlands, Upper Rockridge, Montclair, Ridgemont, Grass Valley, Sequoyah Hills.) Several flatland neighborhoods are considered trendy and are gentrifying rapidly (Rockridge, Temescal, Piedmont Ave., Adams Point, Lake Merritt.) Downtown neighborhoods include the Loft District, the Waterfront, Old Oakland, Chinatown, and Uptown. The character of these neighborhoods continues to change as waves of immigrants from within the US and other countries relocate here for a more liberal lifestyle and the changing economy lures more technically skilled workers.