2002
- Gwen Araujo is murdered in Newark
- Laci Peterson is murdered at an unknown location along the San Francisco Bay
- The Berkeley I-80 bridge (pictured) opens
- The JPMorgan Chase Building in San Francisco is completed
- Tom Bates (pictured) is elected mayor of Berkeley
- The Paramount residential tower in San Francisco is completed
- 555 City Center, a skyscraper in Oakland, is completed