Intergenerational Makerspace Opens in Potrero Hill
Vivien Wang This month Sequoia Fabrica – featuring a wood and textile workshop, 3D printers and laser cutter, electronics, crafts and fine arts stations – opened at 1736 18th Street. Co-founders Max…
Vivien Wang
Bert Hsu Academy to Offer Kindergarten to Eighth Grade Classes in Potrero Hill
Opening this fall, the Bertrand D. Hsu American & Chinese Bicultural Academy will offer “quality, rigorous, affordable and bicultural education” to kindergarten to eighth grade students. The school will be…
Impulse Labs Cooking with Electricity
Located at 1409 Minnesota Street, Impulse Labs launched last fall with an ambitious mission: to make it easier to electrify homes with better appliances. The goal originated as part of…
Institute of Contemporary Art Works to Interpret Cultural Moments
According to The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s (ICA SF) founding director, Ali Gass, the always-free, non-collecting museum was conceived amidst the depths of the pandemic and racial reckonings…
Mission Bay Branch Issues Most Library Cards in San Francisco
Located near the corner of Fourth and Berry streets, Mission Bay library—which opened on July 8, 2006—is the San Francisco Public Library’s (SFPL) youngest branch. With almost 36,000 visits last…
Michelin-star Osito Celebrates Live-Fire Cooking and Community
Located on the corner of 18th and Florida streets, Osito is San Francisco’s only 100 percent live fire, fine-dining restaurant. Having just celebrated its one-year anniversary, Chef Seth Stowaway takes…
LUMA Becomes Mission Bay’s First Hotel
In June, LUMA Hotel opened at 100 Channel Street, marking the arrival of Mission Bay’s first hotel. Although early placards had announced development of Marriot-owned lodging, that chain was never…
SOMA Animal Hospital Welcomes Pet Patients
Earlier this year SOMA Animal Hospital opened at the corner of Fourth and Channel streets in a space originally scoped to be a restaurant. The primary care facility is bright…
Smuin Center for Dance Invites Potrero Hill to Move it
Shortly before the start of the pandemic, Smuin Contemporary Ballet and the Smuin Center for Dance relocated to 1830 17th Street, between Rhode Island and De Haro. The Ballet was…
Demand High, Prices Flat, for Dogpatch, Potrero Hill Real Estate
San Franciscans are accustomed to ever-higher real estate prices and scant amounts of housing offered for sale. Two years into the pandemic cum endemic, sellers’ motivations, buyers’ demands, and open…
Neighborhood Fitness Studios Persist Amidst Challenging Environment
Forced to navigate COVID variants, shifting mask mandates, and cautious students, neighborhood fitness studios have experienced a rocky two years, in a time when maintaining well bodies and minds is…
Local Bakeries Offer Sweet Treats and More
With their power to conjure longing and nostalgia, evoking home and family are the raisons d’être for three San Francisco bakeries located in Southside San Francisco. Sonya Kim was prompted…
Restaurant Grows with Mission Bay Neighborhood
Located at 1500 Owens Street, Oda originally opened in 2014 as a coffeeshop catering to the University of California, San Francisco crowd. Today, it’s a full-service restaurant with ample indoor…
Wine Bars Offer Neighborhoods a Toast
“Accessible” and “customer-driven” aren’t necessarily what come to mind when you think of the retail wine experience. But San Francisco’s neighborhood wine bars—with hybrid retail and dining options—have evolved to…
Neighborhood Pizza Joints Deliver
Four local pizzerias not only survived, but thrived, during the ebbing COVID-19 crisis, adapting their businesses to shifting consumer habits. Launched more than 45 years ago, Goat Hill Pizza, located…