Theater This year’s participants in Potrero Hill-based PlayGround’s Innovator Incubator include two companies new to the Incubator – The American Jewish Theatre and House Theater, both Los Angeles-based – and six returning troupes: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, Latinx Mafia, Network Effects Theater, Oakland Public Theater, and Poltergeist Theatre Project. The Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster innovative theatre…
Crime Last month, Wok & Go, located on the corner of 24th Street and Potrero Avenue, received a order for a delivery to Connecticut Street between Wisconsin and 25th streets. When driver Xiong Zou arrived three young men, one brandishing a gun, robbed him of the food and $31 in cash. Zou wasn’t injured during…
Homicide The San Francisco Police Department has launched a homicide investigation after a man was killed and another injured following a Mission Bay shooting last month. At around midnight on a Sunday officers were called to the 100 block of Berry Street, where they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was…
Political Fallout Farley’s has been a Potrero Hill small business stalwart for coming up on 35 years, fostering community by sponsoring an annual Halloween pet parade, inviting artists and musicians to share their craft, and creating a homey place for families and friends to enjoy a cuppa and a snack. It has a newsstand! Which…
Float A floating home in Mission Creek, a long throw away from Oracle Park, is on the market for $1.25 million. The houseboat, which is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles, is located at the end of a dock of 20 other such boat-homes, only five of which have ever gone up for sale, according…
New Director The Green Benefit District for the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill neighborhoods appointed Andrea Banas to replace retiring executive director Julie Christensen. Banas also serves as board chair for the Bill Sorro Housing Program. Raised in San Francisco, where she attended public schools, Banas has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and…
Money for Housing Various state agencies, including the California Department of Housing and Community Development, are gifting the City and County of San Francisco $163.6 million to build new homes and bolster infrastructure, $45 million of which will support three ongoing projects: Potrero HOPE SF, Sunnydale HOPE SF and India Basin. The City expects all…
Tapped Out Harmonic Brewing will close its Dogpatch taproom at the end of October, a few months after Potrero Hill’s Anchor turned off its taps. Harmonic founders Jon Verna and Ed Gobbo couldn’t agree on a new lease with their landlord. In 2019, San Francisco was home to more than 30 independent craft breweries, one-third…
Anchor Drop After Anchor Brewing Company announced it was shutting down last month several San Franciscans, as well as the brewery’s union, indicated they wanted to purchase the brand. Anchor employees notified Sapporo USA, Anchor Brewing’s parent company, that they’ve “decided to launch an effort to purchase the brewery and run it as a worker…
Anchor Away Julie Christensen, executive director of the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District, who turns 70 this month, will be leaving that position in November to “rewire.” Christensen served as ED for the organization’s first seven years, during which tons of concrete and asphalt were swapped for plants and pedestrian-friendly amenities. The…
Parking Pain Dogpatch, along with Fisherman’s Wharf, is first in line to be subjected to longer metered parking hours. Starting in July, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will extend metered parking hours until 10 p.m. from Monday through Saturday and enforce parking meters from noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Cole Valley and a handful of…
Bus Fires A dozen “smallish” privately owned buses went up in flames last month beneath Interstate 280 in Dogpatch. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in just under an hour. No injuries were reported. “They look like they are abandoned buses,” that were stored on 23rd Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Iowa Street, said San Francisco Fire…
Jackson Approved Last month the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission approved designs for a new playground, sports viewing areas, community learning gardens and an outdoor ball court at Jackson Park. The $40 million renovation of the 4.4-acre Potrero Hill commons also includes creation of a dog run; moving the clubhouse from the park’s southeast corner…
Infrastructure Privatized Mayor London Breed and District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton are pushing legislation to create an “infrastructure financing district” at the Potrero Power Station, a 2,600-unit waterfront project located just south of Pier 70. The district, known as an IFD, would allow the developer, Associate Capital, to raise $150 million to finish building streets,…
Coffee Dogpatchers have another place to caffeinate, with the opening of Ikon Coffee on Knox Landing’s 22nd and Mississippi streets ground floor. Roaster Marcel Costas has vended his cuppas at farmers market for more than a decade and ran a café out of his South San Francisco roasting facility during the COVID pandemic. He and…
Health San Francisco plans to open its first psychiatric hospital specifically designed to help youth experiencing a mental health crisis at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The facility will be funded by a $33.7 million state grant to the San Francisco Department of Public Health and will include a 12-bed psychiatric inpatient program and a…
“It ain’t over till the fat lady sings,” goes a pre-woke idiom, perhaps more respectfully phrased as, “it isn’t over until the beautiful human being sings their final farewell song.” Either way, it’s over, California, at least the latest eco-cultural tech-bro (anti-) social media wave. Musk has cut Twitter into Twit, Zuckerberg has meta on…
Food, Wonderful Food Last month, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank officially opened its newly expanded warehouse and welcome center. The facility now has an additional 32,000 square feet for food storage and distribution; two extra loading docks, enabling inbound truck capacity to increase from eight daily to 12 to 15 per day; 5,200 square feet…
Art Gift Venture capitalist David Hornik and philanthropist Pamela Hornik donated $1 million to the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco last month. The gift places the couple in the top tier of founding donors to the institution, along with Minnesota Street Project Foundation founders Andy Rappaport and Deborah Rappaport, and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger…
Election Results Much ink has been bled interpreting Chesa Boudin’s recall by 55 percent of San Francisco voters. Most believe that Boudin was a sacrificial lamb for pitchfork-carrying residents looking for something, or someone, to burn. But why were we so mad? The City’s crime rate is low by historical standards; the population of those…
Haney Wins District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney won last month’s special election for the District 17 State Assembly, trouncing David Campos, 63 percent to 27 percent, with fewer than 62,000 voters. Mayor London Breed will name a successor to fill Haney’s seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors until an election is held in…
Esprit Park Late last year the Eastern Neighborhoods Citizens Advisory Committee (ENCAC) approved $800,000 for Esprit Park improvements, which’ll be used to pay for material and labor cost increases largely related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It really isn’t a case of one particular item. It’s that everything costs more across the board right now. We…
Drum Licks Last month, Arkansas Street resident Dawn Richardson launched a music education platform, Online Drum Lessons, featuring two courses: Drumming Basics and Beginner to Band. The fundamentals class features such tips as what sticks to start with, drum kit parts, grip and positioning, basic strokes and notation. Beginner to Band is a comprehensive guide…
Concrete Timber For nearly a decade cross-laminated timber — a layered material billed as “the concrete of the future” — has been widely used in Europe and Canada because of its low carbon footprint and handsome woodsy grain. In Showplace Square, developer SKS Partners is finishing 1 De Haro, a 134,000-square-foot, five-story edifice that’ll become…
10 Townsend At a December 2021 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency meeting the #10 Townsend bus was tentatively approved to partially return this Spring. The revised route will run from San Francisco General Hospital to Sansome and Montgomery in the Financial District. Plans include relocating the Potrero Hill stop from 17th Street to 16th Street…