Speaker in the House
Potrero View Staff Editorial A group of KQED members touring the station last month were delighted to run into Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as she left her interview with Nina Kim for…
March 2019
City Ponders Ways to Oust JUUL from Pier 70
Rebekah Moan San Francisco Port Commissioners want vaping company, JUUL, to relocate from Pier 70, by shortening the firm’s lease or enacting a municipal ordinance that bans vaping firms and firearm manufacturers…
Dogpatch/Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District Pursues Success through Partnerships
Jessica Zimmer Improvements to the 22nd Street Caltrain station are on schedule, with work to remove the asphalt walkway and replace it with a larger concrete plaza – along with additional plantings…
Fires Between Highway 101 and Potrero Hill Fanned by Interjurisdictional Challenges
Michael Iacuessa Most San Franciscans probably believe that if a neighborhood experiences a plethora of intermittent fires someone would attempt to find a way to stop them. But when it comes to…
Publisher’s View: Transformation
Steven J. Moss Each of us is born into a beautifully flawed world, though the balance differs depending on individual circumstances. Some of us, emerging newly slick from the womb, are welcomed into…
Short Cuts
Hotel for Warriors The Golden State Warriors want to add lodging and condominiums next to the Chase Center basketball arena under construction in Mission Bay. The basketball team plans to…
Other Neighborhoods Less Enthusiastic About Adopting Green Benefit District Model
Since 2016, the Dogpatch/Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD), the City’s only GBD, has focused its efforts on greening streets and improving common spaces. During that same three-year period…
826 Valencia to Open in Mission Bay
Bettina Cohen The newest arrival to Mission Bay is 826 Valencia, a nonprofit that works with under-resourced children and youth, ages eight to 18. The organization opened its 1310 Fourth Street location…
Doctor Addresses Gap in Care with Cooking Classes
When Dr. Linda Shiue became Kaiser Permanente’s first-ever director of culinary medicine at the San Francisco Medical Center three years ago, she saw an opportunity to address a gap in…
Community Calendar – March 2019
Now through 3/17 Sunday — Theater: VioletSet in the early-1960’s, the Tony Award-nominated Violet tells the story of a young woman’s bus ride from Spruce Pine, North Caroline to Tulsa,…
PV Staff Development Threatens Historic Power Plant Buildings
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project Developer Associate Capital’s preferred plan for the 28-acre Potrero Power Station site, located along 23rd Street, calls for 19 new buildings and demolition of all the early-20th Century historic brick…