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The Oakland Wye is an underground flying wye junction in downtown Oakland, California which serves the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Trains can switch between (a) the northbound Richmond or Antioch lines (first station: 12th Street Oakland City Center, underground), (b) the westbound San Francisco lines (first station: West Oakland, elevated), and (c) the southbound Berryessa or Dublin/Pleasanton lines (first station: Lake Merritt, underground).: 45–46  The Oakland Wye is the center of the BART system (all mileposts measure distance from the wye), and is a bottleneck for the whole system because every regularly scheduled BART train (except for the Oakland Airport Connector and eBART) passes through it.

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (stylized as The MADE) is an Oakland, California, museum dedicated to digital art and gaming, with fully playable gaming exhibits. Its mission is to collect and curate video games, digital media concept art, and gaming systems, to teach the public about digital art and the process of gaming creation. The Board of Directors and Board of Advisors are composed largely of veterans of the gaming industry, journalists, experts, and historians of the field. The museum's director is the internationally published technology journalist Alex Handy, with Dr. Henry Lowood, Curator of Stanford University History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections serving on the board of directors. In September 2015, the museum launched a Kickstarter campaign to acquire a venue in San Francisco, California, across the bay.In June 2022, after being closed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum reopened in a new location in downtown Oakland.

Cosecha was a Mexican restaurant in Swan's Market in Oakland, California in the United States.

The Central Pacific Railroad Depot is a former rail station located in Oakland, California on 7th Street west of Broadway. Originally serving as the western terminal of the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad chose the line as the final link of their transcontinental route and acquired the line and station in 1869. Southern Pacific began operating the line in 1885, and most traffic was rerouted to the 16th Street station when that facility opened in 1912. An additional track was added at some point and both electrified for use in the Key System. A stop continued to operate out front, but the station building had been converted to the Mi Rancho Tortilla Factory in 1939. Tracks were removed with the dismantling of the system. The building was evaluated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, however was deemed unlikely to qualify due to changes on the facade.

10th Street Market, also known as the Swan's Market, Oakland Free Market or the Sanitary Free Market, was a commercial market district in Oakland, California. 10th Street Market was built in 1917 and expanded in 1926. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 2001. It is now known as Swan's Marketplaces, a mixed-use commercial and residential area. In 2001 Swan's Marketplace was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal.

Dunns Block is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Dunns Block was built in 1879. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1978. The Dunns Block building is at 725 Washington Street, Oakland. Dunns Block was designed by William Stokes (1833–1901). T Stokes also designed the Henry House-Portland Hotel on Ninth Street and in 1879 the Hall of Records. The building has been: MJB Coffee Shop, a book store and a tailor shop. The City of Oakland listed Dunns Block as Oakland Landmark #16, #LM 82–264 on November 9, 1982.

Clay Building, is a historical building in downtown Oakland, California. The Clay Building was built in 1901. The three-story brick building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1978. The Clay Building suffered major damage in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Clay Building was a Levi Strauss factory, after the earthquake it was also the Levi Strauss headquarters. Later the Le Cheval restaurant and Tigrai Cafe opened on the ground floor. starting in 1909, Theodore Eliopolous's Eliopoulos Hellenic Company, an Egyptian cigar manufacturer was on the third floor, later moved to Webster Street by John Fisher. An auction house owned by David Bercovich operated out of the building for some years. Harry Bercovich opened a cigar shop in 1924 in the Clay Building. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the building and was repaired.

Security Bank and Trust Company Building is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Security Bank and Trust Company Building was built in 1911. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1982. The renaissance Revival and baroque architecture building was designed by Frederick Meyer and Walter Reed. The six-story building as a U-shaped floor giving the upper floors more windows. The building is noted for it use of terracotta. The Security Bank and Trust Company Building has also been the headquarters of Key System, Oakland's public transportation system. Frederick Meyer also designed the San Francisco Bankers Investment Building (1912), Kohler and Chase Building (1909), Physicians Building (1914), Humboldt Bank Building (1906) and the Monadnock Building (1906).

The Oakland Asian Cultural Center, also referred to as the OACC, is an Oakland-based nonprofit cultural center that carries out Asian and Pacific Islander American arts and culture programs. It is located in the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland Chinatown, residing three blocks away from the 12th Street Civic Center BART station on Broadway. In the early 1980s, a community coalition asked for a space for a pan-Asian Cultural Center and the Asian Library, expressing a desire for an artistic and cultural space in the Chinatown area of Oakland. Historian Eve Ma notes that the Oakland Asian Cultural Center started in December 1984 as the East Bay Chinese Culture Center. In 1987, as it began acquiring help from the city government and recognizing that Chinatown's composition had changed, the Center changed its name, broadening its aim to include all Asian cultures."Since opening its own facility in 1996 Oakland’s Chinatown district, the OACC has offered cultural programs including performances, workshops, festivals, school tours, classes, and exhibitions.

The Clorox Building is a 24-story, 100.6 m (330 ft) High-rise building in the City Center complex of downtown Oakland, California. The building was completed in 1976, and designed by Cesar Pelli when he worked with Gruen Associates now based in Los Angeles. The Oakland-based Clorox Company is headquartered in the building.

The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university.The University of California was founded on March 23, 1868, and operated in Oakland before moving to Berkeley in 1873. Over time, several branch locations and satellite programs were established. In March 1951, the University of California began to reorganize itself into something distinct from its campus in Berkeley, with UC President Robert Gordon Sproul staying in place as chief executive of the UC system, while Clark Kerr became the first chancellor of UC Berkeley and Raymond B. Allen became the first chancellor of UCLA. However, the 1951 reorganization was stalled by resistance from Sproul and his allies, and it was not until Kerr succeeded Sproul as UC President that UC was able to evolve into a university system from 1957 to 1960. At that time, chancellors were appointed for additional campuses and each was granted some degree of greater autonomy.The University of California currently has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 285,862 students, 24,400 faculty members, 143,200 staff members and over 2.0 million living alumni. Its newest campus in Merced opened in fall 2005. Nine campuses enroll both undergraduate and graduate students; one campus, UC San Francisco, enrolls only graduate and professional students in the medical and health sciences. In addition, the UC Hastings College of the Law, located in San Francisco, is legally affiliated with UC, but other than sharing its name is entirely autonomous from the rest of the system. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system. UC is governed by a Board of Regents whose autonomy from the rest of the state government is protected by the state constitution. The University of California also manages or co-manages three national laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. Eight of the campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Santa Cruz, and Riverside, are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021.

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. In 2006, the "Jeeves" name was dropped and they refocused on the search engine, which had its own algorithm. In late 2010, facing insurmountable competition from more popular search engines like Google, the company outsourced its web search technology and returned to its roots as a question and answer site. Douglas Leeds was elevated from president to CEO in 2010.Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors. Ask.com is currently owned by InterActiveCorp (IAC) under the NASDAQ symbol Nasdaq: IAC, and its corporate headquarters are located at 555 City Center, in the Oakland City Center development in downtown Oakland, California.