Much-Delayed Jack London Square Food Hall Project Thwarted Again As Star Chefs Back Out
The hotly anticipated Oakland Assembly food hall at Jack London Square, slated for a space that has been touted as an eventual Ferry Building-esque food hall for about a decade but was never built out inside, was delayed by the pandemic but now it sounds like they will have to start the tenant hunt all over again.
The celebrity chef line up at Oakland Assembly (55 Harrison Street) was big news when the Port of Oakland announced it in November 2019. It included Matt Horn of the now wildly popular Horn Barbecue, who was intending to open a fried chicken concept there called KowBird. Now, as a rep for Horn tells the Chronicle, KowBird will be opening elsewhere at a time and place still to be determined.