August 2020
PV Staff New Commercial Real Estate Remains Robust in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay, Older Storefronts Suffering
Bettina Cohen The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants…
Psychotherapists Cope with Rise in Anxiety, Depression
Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman The public health crisis, combined with economic, political, and social turbulence, has prompted a rise in anxiety and other mental health disorders. Last spring, as the number of COVID-19 infections…
Hill, Dogpatch Residents and Businesses Lend a Helping Hand
Anna Hochman San Francisco has been sheltering in place for almost six months. The full or partial closure of the tourism, restaurant, and retail sectors prompted the City’s unemployment rate to jump…
Publisher’s View: Time
Steven J. Moss Time never appears directly, but rather presents itself in an array of costumes, some invisible. The sun rises and sets, signaling the passage of day into night back into day.…
Letters to the Editor
Potrero View Staff Editorial Editor, I declare tinted automobile windows the scourge of pedestrians, bicyclists, and car drivers. Gone is the “excuse me” or “I see you” back and forth that eye contact engenders.…
Short Cuts
Potrero View Staff Jackson Park Bonded Two thousand postcards sent to Mayor London Breed calling for Jackson Park to be included in the 2020 Health and Recovery Bond that’ll appear on the November…
OP-ED: Systematic Racism Goes Well Beyond Police Brutality
Kimberly Camp The Black Lives Matter movement may be the largest in American history. As many as 26 million people of all colors participated in marches sparked by the murders of George…
Internet Service Provider Monkeybrains Born in Potrero Hill
When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains,…
Psychedelics Emerging into the Mainstream
Nick Shadix Over the last 20 years psychedelics – lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), among others – have shifted from underground and counter-culture club drugs to medicines that are…
Arteries of the Americas
Max Blue San Francisco art galleries are offering by-appointment viewing of exhibitions originally scheduled to open last spring. Seven Rivers – which was supposed to start accepting visitors in March at Euqinom…
Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School
Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse…
Community Calendar: August 2020: Kids and Family
8/1 Saturday and 8/2 SundayTheater: “A Kids’ Play About Racism”The performance explains what racism is, how to know it when you see and experience it and explores ideas for what…
Obituary: Longtime Potrero Hill Resident Ron Miguel Dies
Rebekah Moan Former Potrero Hill resident, San Francisco Planning Commission president, and florist Ron Miguel died on June 28 of heart problems. He was 88-years-old. Miguel, a third-generation San Franciscan, wanted to…