In its heyday, the 215,000-square-foot arena — originally known as the Oakland Civic Auditorium — hosted Martin Luther King Jr., as well as performances by Elvis Presley, James Brown ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Oakland City Council will soon decide the fate of an East Bay landmark. The Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center and civic auditorium has been sitting empty for a decade.

Kaiser Convention Center as a vast complex of office and performance space ... Sponsored The 215,000-square-foot building, which Orton intends to rechristen the “Oakland Civic,” was completed in 1914 ...

A coalition of Oakland arts and culture groups have appealed Orton Development’s plan to renovate and manage the city-owned Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, showing intensified scrutiny of the ...

The 91-year-old Kaiser convention center, formerly known as Oakland Civic Auditorium, includes an arena, the Calvin Simmons Theatre and two ballrooms often rented out for parties and meetings.

The Kaiser Convention Center was built in 1914 as the Oakland Civic Auditorium and shut down in 2006. In 2015, it was approved for a renovation project as a mixed-use facility as a performing arts ...