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Features
2+ Bedrooms / 2.5 Bathrooms
1,633 Square Feet
Built in 2007
2104 6th Street is one of four units at Sisterna Commons, an intimate community named after Chilean prospector and farmer Rosario Sisterna and his wife Carmelita who purchased 55 acres of dairy 1858. Originally, the area was a small unincorporated village and ranchers watered their horses nearby.; As it blossomed, businesses like Standard Soap Company and Haller’s Carriage & Blacksmith were established and West Berkeley has continued to evolve into the thriving neighborhood it is today.
2104 is set back from the street with its own private entrance surrounded by established trees.; The lower level features the gracious master suite with a marble bathroom, large closet, and a spacious second bedroom and a full bathroom - both bedrooms have French door access to the private yard.; The main level boasts the grand living space with cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, multiple skylights, a large balcony accessed by two sets of French doors, dramatic window lines and a designer kitchen with counter depth Electrolux fridge and gas range with hood. Finally, the mezzanine makes for a terrific office, media room or sleeping loft and has a half bathroom.
Aside from the architecture, craftsmanship and finishes, it is the outdoor space that really makes this home special. The “L” shaped yard provides a serene escape from the city and a great place to read, entertain, bbq and play with the dogs.
2104 is located two blocks from Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo Room, Catahoula Kaffeegarten and Berkeley’s renown Fourth Street Shopping District known for legacies like Spenger’s Fish Grotto and Brennan’s and newcomers Apple, Peet’s and SoulCycle.; North Berkeley BART is 1.2 miles and San Francisco is 10.7 miles away.
Neighborhood
Fourth Street is the most upscale shopping district in Berkeley, and one of the most original in the Bay Area. You don't come here to buy things you need, you come here to buy things you want. Don't be fooled into thinking it's just like any fancy shopping district anywhere, though; it could definitely exist only in Berkeley.
It's an affluent, eclectic, café-society sort of place, where people wander about in clothing that ranges in style from Mall D'ordinaire to Dreary-but-Noble and Simply Fourth Street (i.e., expensive and original).
Once upon a time, the area around Fourth Street was almost entirely industrial, with some maritime businesses and some serving the building trades. Even if you had seven paychecks and a bunch of stock options burning a hole in your pocket, there was nowhere to get rid of your cash, and Spenger's old-fashioned fish restaurant was the closest you could come to fine dining. All that has changed with a vengeance over the past decade.
At first, the area's low rents drew artists, artisans and fledgling businesses. Next, the opening of a couple of destination restaurants in the late '70s and early '80s (the still-hopping Bette's Oceanview Diner and the defunct Fourth Street Bar and Grill) started people thinking of the area as something other than the place concrete comes from. Then, slowly, the retail started arriving, and about 10 years ago, some sort of critical mass was reached. Fourth Street became a major shopping destination, and the madness began. "Fourth Street," which spread onto neighboring streets a long time ago, is expanding even as you read this, with light-industrial buildings and empty spaces being beautified and converted to high-end retail shops.
Fourth Street has become an open-air mall, upscale in a Berkeley-bohemian way that threatens to become less Berkeley and more mall-like all the time. An intellectual, artistic aesthetic sets the tone, though a couple of chain stores have managed to worm their way in. It's rampant consumerism, with a dash of only-in-Berkeley PC seriousness to add zest.
The street itself is a real accomplishment: lots of nice stores and several good restaurants in an intimate, small-scale setting where it's easy to walk around the entire place. The street is attractively landscaped, with benches to rest on under the trees. Restaurants range from elegant to casual, and the stores sell anything your disposable dollars can buy, from furniture to women's and children's clothing to roast chickens to books on plumbing codes.;
Here, you can still buy art directly from its maker, and many businesses in the Fourth Street area are either local manufacturers themselves or carry local products unavailable elsewhere. Some places offer below-retail prices; others, well, don't.;
And if you need an antidote to the chi-chi marvelousness of it all, you can find refreshments at any one of several down-home spots, from Brennan's, a big barn of a bar where generations of Cal students have drunk beer and Irish coffee, to Vik's Chaat Corner to the ceramics studios where local artisans still ply their craft.
Source: SFGate.com neighborhood guide
Schedule
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Andy Read
925.330.1948 mobile
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Ana O'Byrne
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Contact
Andy Read
PartnerDRE# 01356611925.330.1948 mobilehttp://www.DwellEB.com
Ana O'Byrne
Realtor®Caldecott Properties# 01925211