Welcome from the President & CEO.

Hi, and welcome to Emeryville!

We invite you to explore Emeryville with the aid of www.emeryvillechamber.com. The information contained here will provide you with the information you'll need to enjoy all our unique city has to offer.

Emeryville is a city with a long and colorful history that has gone through several transformations. In the early days of the 20th Century Emeryville was a meat processing center and home for hundreds of slaughterhouses, butcher shops, and meat processing plants. In the 1920's the City was known as the "Entertainment Center of the East Bay," replete with saloons, speakeasies, gambling halls and race tracks. The famed Oakland Oaks, one of the old Pacific Coast League's original franchises, played their home games at Oaks Park - in Emeryville. The legendary 1948 championship team was managed by Casey Stengel and featured another future Yankee manager, the young Billy Martin, at second base.

In the post-WWII era Emeryville was an industrial town, with steel mills, paint factories, and other heavy industries giving the city a distinct manufacturing flavor. Many captains of East Bay industry emerged from these businesses, forming the influential Emeryville Industries Association.

Today, Emeryville is a customer and tourist-oriented city known for its great shopping, hotels, dining, educational and entertainment venues, not to mention the location of some of America's best-known businesses. Pixar Animation Studios, Novartis, Peet's Coffee and Tea, IKEA, Leapfrog, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, Trader Vic's Restaurant, and the Oaks Card Club, among many others, all call Emeryville home, or have extensive operations here.

Emeryville's terrific location, at the foot of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, minutes from the U.C. - Berkeley campus and the Port of Oakland and adjacent to four major state and interstate highways, make us an affordable, fun, accessible and colorful city for visitors, residents and businesses.

So whether you're a visitor out of the area, a local shopper, a U.C. student, a family moving to the East Bay, attending a convention or meeting or just here for the day on business, we welcome you. (Emeryville's four full-service hotels offer almost 1,000 rooms). Always feel free to contact us at the Chamber office if there is anything we can do to make your stay more enjoyable.

Bob Canter
President & CEO
Emeryville Chamber of Commerce

Emeryville Chamber of Commerce 3980 Harlan Street · Emeryville · CA · 94608 Phone: 510-652-5223 ·  FAX: 510-652-4223 Email: info@emeryvillechamber.com © Copyright 2004 by Emeryville Chamber of Commerce. All rights reserved