potrero view

August 2009

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,


The Fisher modern art collection could provide the centerpiece for a redeveloped Pier 70.  The site has much to offer, including seventy acres of bay front land, of which almost half is vacant.  Accessible by foot, bike, automobile, and water taxi, with the best weather in San Francisco, year-round.  And the area is already home to a large number of artists.  

Pier 70 could also become the focal point for institutions devoted to finding solutions to local and global problems.  The site could accommodate convention facilities, with moderate rate hotels.  The surrounding neighborhood will soon have many new restaurants and businesses, as development occurs along the light rail corridor.

Our late former mayor, Joseph Alioto said, when he was first elected, “why go to Paris or Rome for your conferences, for your world meetings, for your summits, why not come to San Francisco?”  Why not, indeed.

 

John H. Anderson

19th Street

 

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