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By Kathy Chouteau
If an East Bay chocolate company’s sweet deal goes through, it plans to move to Richmond this summer.
Corocao Confections an Oakland-based chocolate manufacturing company that crafts small-batch, hand-made, vegan chocolate bars, truffles, candy bars and drinking chocolates has applied for a conditional use permit (CUP) from the City of Richmond’s Planning Commission, according to the commission’s agenda report. Daniel Korson, who founded the company in 2008, looks to manufacture chocolate at the existing tenant space at 1401 Marina Way South, Suite 300, in Richmond, nearby Purity Wine and Study Bar. The Planning Commission will consider the application Thursday, June 17.
By Kathy Chouteau
Point Richmond may be getting its first-ever wine bar. On Thurs., May 6, the City of Richmond’s Planning Commission is set to review an application from Marlina Miller identified in an Agenda Report as the applicant and operator of The Grape Nest Wine Bar at 229 Tewksbury Ave. in Point Richmond for a Conditional Use Permit to serve alcohol at that location.
It would be the first wine retail shop with tasting in the Point Richmond neighborhood, per the report.
As its name suggests, plans are for The Grape Nest Wine Bar to operate as a wine retail shop and tasting room in a small, 200 sq. ft. commercial space facing Tewksbury Ave. Two counters and stools will be available for costumers and, in the future, plans are for tables and chairs to be placed outside the building in the rear area of the property, according to the report.