Balesteri’s Vacates Fisherman’s Wharf

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City wants more Cannery Row style franchise stores and their sky high rents. Times are changing, catch a part of the Old Fisherman’s Wharf while it’s still there.

Balesteri said the city wanted to double the rent at the location in the new lease, and while he did not give the exact price, he said the proposed rent was in the neighborhood of $9,000 a month.

The space Balesteri’s rented included three business fronts, in addition to the coffee shop and the gift shop the owner of Paluca Trattoria sublet the restaurant space. Paluca will remain open and has worked out a separate deal with the city.

Balesteri’s is the first of two family owned businesses vacating the wharf over lease negotiation problems. Liberty Fish is not re-upping its lease and is expected to leave early in 2017.

Balesteri’s Vacates At Fisherman’s Wharf

Latest Wharf Evictee – Liberty Fish

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Another long time wharf shop to pack up and not come back.

wharf night

Liberty Fish Company, a seafood and fish market that’s

been in operation on Wharf 1 since 1950, will be closing by the end of January, according to both its owner Lucy Ann Higuera and Monterey officials.

Higuera who runs the business with her sisters Mary Liguori and Donna Duvall and her son Nick, said she was caught off guard when she recently received a letter to vacate.

Higuera said the businesses that made the wharf what it is are now steadily disappearing.

“We remodeled our building, we paid for the pilings,” said Higuera, noting that they hope to re-open in a different location. “After I walk off, it will be the last time I come on this wharf.”

Latest Wharf Evictee – Liberty Fish

Holman Highway Crash Kills One

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Eight feet down and 40 feet off the road? Driving too fast, maybe?

Ariel Sanchez, 38, was driving alone in a 1980 Toyota Supra eastbound on Holman Highway east of SFB Morse Drive when the traffic accident occurred.

The CHP said officers were dispatched to a traffic crash on Holman Highway about 7:15 a.m. and arrived on scene to discover the silver Toyota about 40 feet off the roadway and down an 8-foot embankment.

Sanchez’s vehicle had collided with a tree at the bottom of the embankment. Though the driver was wearing a seat belt, he was pronounced dead by medical staff at the scene.

Holman Highway Crash Kills One

Presidio Of Monterey Police Officer Popped For Child Sexual Assault

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Presidio police work both the Presidio and a portion of Fort Ord.

A Presidio of Monterey police officer was arraigned Friday morning in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on seven counts of child sexual assault in a case dating back nearly 20 years.

Barney Ramnauth is accused of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 14 in 1998. He was arrested Tuesday.

Presidio Of Monterey Police Officer Popped For Child Sexual Assault

Tax Vote Fails, What Next For Revenue?

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I still offer up the John Denver Memorial RV Park.

John Denver Rv Park

After 77 percent of Pacific Grove voters resoundingly defeated Measure P, officials are determined to find new ways to raise revenue – fast. Measure P would have levied a 5-percent tax on event and venue admissions, bringing an estimated $4.2 million annually to the city.

Tax Vote Fails, What Next For Revenue?

See Through Solar At Beach House Restaurant

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Old Bath House Story Poles

Next we will get invisible solar panels. Kind of like those glue on fire sprinklers a contractor once installed all over Monterey.

When you look out over the Monterey Bay from the outdoor patio of the Beach House at Lovers Point, you understand exactly why these are the most sought-after seats at the Pacific Grove restaurant. But managing general partner Kevin Phillips had a conundrum: How to make the 30-some patio seats usable on those foggy, drippy days for which Pacific Grove is famous.

“It turned out that there was a very elegant solution with a great side benefit,” said Phillips.

The answer was the installation of innovative solar panels above the patio — a translucent, weatherproof array that allows sunlight to filter through while also shielding patrons from the weather.

See Through Solar At Beach House Restaurant

Pavel’s Reopens

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Open one day a week. That’s an art gallery schedule!

The bakery is open Saturdays, but closed Sundays and Mondays.

Pacific Grove residents can rest a little easier. After a temporary shutdown due to sewer line repairs, Pavel’s Backerei on Forest Avenue is opening with a limited supply of baked goods for sale on Friday morning, the owners announced on Facebook Thursday night.

Pavel’s Reopens

Cannery Row Home To Gang Members

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Gang hits, knife fights, it just aint as safe anymore.

The gunman who Monterey police believe murdered a 28-year-old man on Cannery Row last month was identified Tuesday as Jorge Luis Mendoza.

The murder victim, Raul Melendez of Monterey, was followed from the restaurant to the Cannery Row Parking Garage on Wave Street at 1:40 a.m. on Nov. 23. He was shot multiple times. He was transported from the bloody scene to Natividad’s trauma center, where he died.

Monterey police also released the names of the men who were behind a double stabbing during a fight at the Blue Fin Billiards and Cafe at 685 Cannery Row.

Joel Robledo, 40, of Salinas and Frank Guzman II, 27, of Castroville, stabbed each other while fighting on Dec. 3.

Police described the two men as “rival gang members from Castroville and Salinas.”

Cannery Row Home To Gang Members

City Shuts Down Pavel’s

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Mr Rooter

City Manager Ben Harvey said the temporary closure is the result of a broken sewer line in combination with an out-of-order employee bathroom.

Crews with Mr. Rooter were busy repairing the line Tuesday, but the business owners, Paul and Johanna Wainscoat, said the timing on the closure could not be worse.

The baker said there have been five times in the last two years when the bakery was closed and repairs could have been made without disruption, but he said the property owner did not take care of the sewer line.

More than nine months ago, A.G. Davi took over management of the property. Jeff Davi, the president of the company, said he doesn’t believe the landlord knew the line was broken for two years.

“It is not true. There was a leak in the summertime. There was an issue that was resolved. (We) thought we fixed it satisfactorily, and of course, it wasn’t the case,” Davi said.

Davi said redoing the sewer line is an expensive job, but it is now the only option on the table, and it is going to take a few days.

“It has to be completely redone, and the city is involved, and the city wants it done right, so we have to have the whole thing replaced,” he said.

The repairs are expected to take at least three days.

City Shuts Down Pavel’s

Drains And Doors Clogged At Pavel’s

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No functioning bathroom? Eeeew.

City officials said on Monday that the bakery had to cease operations so that the building’s owner, Gary Delahanty of Carmel, could make major repairs to a non-functioning employee bathroom and a leaking lateral sewer line that runs to Forest Avenue.

According to Harvey, there has been a long-term dispute between Pavel’s management and the property owner that came to a head recently when the Monterey County Health Department got wind of the non-functioning employee bathroom. The city soon got involved, and once city Building Official John Kuehl determined repairs had to be made, Harvey said they had no choice but to shut down Pavel’s until repairs were complete.

Drains And Doors Clogged At Pavel’s