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Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the closing of the Bay Meadows racetrack on May 11, 2008, it became the... only major racetrack in Northern California. The track is set on 140 acres of land in the cities of Albany and Berkeley; Golden Gate Fields' facilities currently include a one-mile synthetic track and a turf course measuring 9/10 of a mile, or 7 furlongs plus 132 feet , stalls for 1,420 horses, a main grandstand with seating for approximately 8,000 customers, a clubhouse with seating for approximately 5,200 customers, a Turf Club with seating for approximately 1,500 customers and parking for over 8,500 cars. The synthetic track is called Tapeta, and was installed in the summer of 2007. Owned and managed for 25 years by foreign car importer and horseman Kjell Qvale, Golden Gate Fields is now owned by The Stronach Group since July 3, 2011 and previously owned by MI Developments Inc.
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The MacArthur Maze refers to the large freeway interchange located near the eastern end of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California, and the largest freeway interchange in the world. Principally it can be seen as splitting Bay Bridge traffic into three freeways, the... Eastshore, MacArthur and Nimitz, although other movements are important. Because of its central location in the San Francisco Bay Area and the funneling of traffic across the few bridges spanning the bay, the Maze is a major hub for both east–west and north–south traffic in the Bay Area. The Maze is a major corridor for commuters living in the East Bay and working in San Francisco. The Maze is next to both the Port of Oakland, which is the fourth busiest container port in the United States, and to downtown Oakland. Two major interstate freeways from beyond the Bay Area, I-80 and I-5 connect to the Maze. The Maze started as part of the construction of the Bay Bridge in the 1930s.
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