View Celebrates 45 Years of Community News
Lester Zeidman The idea of starting a print newspaper today would be seen as quaint. The ease of communicating in the Internet age is sharply different than the challenge faced 45 years…
August 2015
Potrero1010 Complex to Start Leasing Units this Fall
Barry Eitel With 453 residential units, a striking design and an acre of public space, Equity Residential (EQR) developers announced last month that they’ll begin preleasing apartments at Potrero1010 this October, with…
Affordable Housing Advocates Question Giants’ Mission Rock Development
Jessica Zimmer In late-June, the San Francisco Giants submitted more than 16,000 signatures from San Francisco voters to the Department of Elections to place approval of their proposed Mission Rock development, under…
Developers Focus on Southside Neighborhoods
Ryan Bergmann An extraordinary amount of real estate development is occurring in the Southside neighborhoods, with nearly 5,000 units in the pipeline. These projects are transforming Dogpatch and Potrero Hill. What follows…
Coding Bootcamps Seen as a Way into the Techie Class
R. A. Schuetz “I’m here because I’m thinking about a career change,” said a woman holding a plastic cup of wine. She and roughly 20 others were gathered in a brightly-lit building that…
PonoMusic: Rediscovering Music in Potrero Hill
Greg Roensch I leaned forward on the couch and waited for “Heart of Gold” to play over the sound system. As a lifelong Neil Young fan, I’ve probably heard the song a…
Vacant Mission Bay Lot to Become 20-Unit Apartment Building
Kimberly Gomes A new residential building is planned for a vacant lot located directly across the street from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital, on the southeast corner…
Fiction: Gold
Steven J. Moss This is chapter one of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. “I…
SF Cheese Fest Coming to Dogpatch
Daphne O'Neal SF Cheese Fest, a fundraiser for the California Artisan Cheese Guild, will take place on September 19 at Dogpatch WineWorks. Billed as a celebration of cheese and cheesemakers, the event…
Drought Impacts
Paul McDonald I was on my knees at the back fence of my Vermont Street home, in the dirt among mosquitoes and dog-doo, sucking on a dirty hose with my head as…
Community Calendar August 2015
Potrero View Staff Editorial August 1st – Film/Culture: Well-known Taiwanese film director Mei-Juin Chen will screen her movie about the life and times of Li XiangLan, also known as “Shirley” and “Yoshiko Yamaguchi.” From…
Publisher’s View: Jump Ball
Tussles over land use changes are nothing new in San Francisco. Protests erupt over removing a diseased street tree, or building a backyard deck. Larger projects are periodically blocked. The…
Foot Beat Officers Aim to Improve Hill’s Quality of Life
Keith Burbank Four foot beat officers, dispatched from the San Francisco Police Department’s Bayview Station, are working to improve the quality life in Potrero Hill and Dogpatch. Officer Eric Lau walks and…
Film Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which opens in Los Angeles and New York on August 7, is about sex. More specifically, it’s about a feverish waking sex dream: that…
Get A Job
Mauri Schwartz The View asked career expert Mauri Schwartz to answer questions from job seekers. Submit yours to editor@potreroview.net. Q: There’s lots of advice about how to prepare answers to questions you’ll…
Letters to the Editor August 2015
PV Staff Editor, I enjoyed reading Steven Moss’ column in the June issue (“Jews”). A lot of history was covered in that one column. I hope people were listening. The View is…
Short Cuts
Shooting San Francisco police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man in the Potrero Annex-Terrace housing complex. Prince Johnson, a City resident, was found suffering from a gunshot…
Cancelled Meeting: UCSF Announcement
Dear Neighbors, As you may know, UC San Francisco is proposing to develop a research building at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) on a surface parking lot owned by the…
Library News August 2015
Jenny Scholten Summer Stride 2015: Join the Library’s reading program, Summer Stride 2015! Sign up at the branch or register online at www.sfpl.org/summerstride. Adults and teenagers will get a canvas tote bag…
Debate Continues Over Warriors Arena
Dozens of San Francisco residents, advocacy groups, and community organizations packed a late-June special meeting of the San Francisco Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure to voice their opinions about…