Safeway remodels its Berkeley, Oakland stores

Safeway has extensively remodeled its store near Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, but managed to maintain the store's footprint and most of its structure.

Click this link for a Google Maps view of the Berkeley Safeway before and after -- the aerial view is before, the satellite view is after.

And after 7 years, Oakland has greenlighted a replacement for the College and Claremont Safeway in the Rockridge neighborhood. It has parking on the roof and does a nice job of filling in an underused corner.