OAKLAND — The city plans to name a street after a family-run construction company that has remained open for three decades in an otherwise neglected East Oakland commercial corridor along Hegenberger Road.

The business’ headquarters on Collins Drive is in the same neighborhood where Len and Lance Turner spent their childhoods riding dirt bikes and hanging out in the 1960s, when the Oakland Coliseum was built and opened.

That small side street will soon be renamed Turner Group Drive in honor of their contributions — a legislation approved this week by the Oakland City Council.

Beyond overcoming the odds of sustaining a construction firm in an industry dominated by major corporations, the Turner brothers are also notable for being two of the rare defendants to beat federal conspiracy char

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