Federal funding of $850,000 has been secured for a community plaza near the Ashby BART station in Berkeley, local leaders said Friday. U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, whose office secured the funding, made the announcement at a news conference in South Berkeley, accompanied by Mayor Adena Ishii, BART Director Barnali Ghosh and other Berkeley city officials. “The street, with the work that will happen here, will no longer be a corridor that …
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