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About the West Alameda Business Association
The West Alameda Business
Association (WABA) represents over 125 local businesses through
its mission to promote and improve West Alameda. We support economic
development, marketing, streetscape improvements and other programs
benefiting local businesses. WABA is an official Main Street organization,
a designation of the National Main Street Center, which is a division
of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
We do everything we can to help you succeed! Please join
us!
Read more about our accomplishments:
 New
Business Attraction
WABA attracts new businesses to West Alameda,
including:
- AAA Premier Scuba
- Alameda Smog Test Center
- Alameda Sports Cards & Comics
- American Mortgage Company
- Aria International Market
- Back to Health Chiropractic Center
- Back to Life Wellness Center
- Bay Ship and Yacht
- Beauty Cut
- Beauty Unlimited
- Bladium Sports Club
- Brown Brothers Shoes
- Cafe Jolie
- Calafia Taqueria
- California Sun Auto
- Cardinal Point at Marina Square
- Chef's Wok
- Croll's Pizza
- Crowns for Causes
- Elder's Inn
- Epidemic Recording
- Frog & Fiddle
- Greek Meze
- Hair Tech
- Hawthorn Suites
- Home-Restored Furniture and Refinishing
- India Palace
- Kapok Seafood Restaurant
- Karousel Boutique
- Katsu Sushi
- Kelly Moore Paints
- Lan Vie
- Little Caesar's Pizza
- Lucky JuJu Pinball
- North American Martial Arts Academy
- O'Connell Electric
- Otaez Mexican Restaurant
- Pacific Car Rental
- Perfect Vision
- Seiji Morikawa, Certified Groomer
- Subway
- The Fortune Cookie Restaurant
- The Glass Man
- TuTaiz
- Webster Square
- West Marine
- White Toque, Inc.
- Wienerschnitzel
- Wilmot’s Books
- Window-Max
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Special
Events
WABA plans and supports a variety of regular and special events
in West Alameda and on Webster Street. Visit our events
page for details, and be sure to join us at our next event!
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Merchant Support
WABA vigilantly represents the interests of Webster Street and West
Alameda merchants.
- Streetscape: WABA partnered
with the City of Alameda to design and implement Phase 1 of the
Webster Renaissance Streetscape, adding pedestrian amenities,
landscaping, and historic acorn lighting. WABA also lobbied to
protect the historic look of Webster by opposing bus shelter advertising
on the street.
- West End Cleanup: WABA retained a full-time maintenance crew and obtained funding from the City of Alameda for a green machine and maintenance vehicle to keep the business district clean.
- Image Creation: WABA has
implemented a strategic marketing plan to promote West Alameda.
The district has received ongoing favorable media coverage, launched
a website and logo, enhanced existing special events and developed
new ones, and offered a variety of marketing opportunities for
members for free or at reduced costs.
- Free Publicity: WABA prepares
a weekly column for the Alameda Sun featuring member businesses
- members can submit items for free coverage.
- Sign Ordinance: WABA, the Planning Department, and PSBA worked to rewrite a portion of the sign ordinance, adopted in 2005.
- Design Guidelines: WABA updated
the Design Guidelines adopted by the City in 2005.
- Façade Grants: WABA, PSBA, GABA, and the Development Services Department worked to enhance the City's façade grant program.
- Mentoring: WABA provides
member businesses with marketing, grant, and permit assistance.
- Zoning Changes: WABA successfully lobbied the
City of Alameda for a zoning change to limit industrial/commercial
uses and promote pedestrian-oriented businesses.
Our goal is your success. It's that simple. Please
join us.
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Business
Assistance
WABA provides member businesses with marketing assistance and assists
them in getting grants and permits. Through WABA’s efforts,
well over $100,000 in façade grants have gone to our businesses.
- AAA Premier Scuba
- Alameda Pizza
- Albert's Cafe
- Aria International Market
- Cafe Jolie
- East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
- Fortune Cookie
- Garden Cleaners
- Greek Meze
- Hair Tech
- Kapok Seafood Restaurant
- Karousel Boutique
- Katsu Sushi
- Larry's Shoes Repair
- Leann's Nails
- Le's Tailors
- Nation's
- Neptune Palace Hotel
- O'Connell Volvo (which received the Alameda
Architectural Preservation Society award in 2002)
- Providence Veterinary Hospital
- Seiji Morikawa, Certified Groomer
- Ju Jai 2
- Volberg property - 1501 to 1509 Webster Street
(Mary Angelo, Seelenbacher Jeweler, Hair Tech, and Tavistock Books)
- Volberg property - 1513 to 1519 Webster Street
(This property received
the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society award in 2003)
- Wally's Corner
We work hard to make sure your West Alameda business not
only survives, but thrives! Please join
WABA today!
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