Minnesota Street Grove Reopens as Urban Oasis
Danny Pham A renovated Minnesota Street Grove reopened last summer. The green space, tucked between 24th and 25th streets, is largely the creation of community efforts. “This redevelopment and reopening has been…
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Pier 68 to be Used to Dock Recreational Vehicles
Jessica Zimmer District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton’s condemnation of a municipal plan to store towed recreational vehicles (RVs) at Pier 68 was the first time many Dogpatch residents heard about the idea.…
Daniel Webster to Continue General Education Track, for Now
Chaitanya Tondepu On a quiet stretch of Missouri Street in early October, families at Daniel Webster (DW) Elementary attended a community meeting led by San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) communications team…
Goat Hill Pizza Turns 50, the Pizza Remains Fresh
Tamala Motta On November 16, 2025, Goat Hill Pizza turns a half-century old. When five friends – Joel and Loris Lipski, Karen Clark (Monely), Ruthann Dickinson, and Philip (Phil) DeAndrade – first…
Y Combinator Draws Techies to Dogpatch
S Anne Steinberg Dogpatch, Mission Bay, Mission Creek, and Potrero Hill have emerged as San Francisco’s latest technology node. Uber re-located to Mission Bay in 2021. OpenAI, situated in Mission Creek since 2015,…
More than $20 Million Spent Annually to Maintain Street Trees, Fix Sidewalks
Mark Steensland Prior to 2016, property owners shouldered most of the responsibility for caring for San Francisco’s 125,000 street trees; plants growing in “basins” cut-out from the sidewalk. That changed with passage…
Highways Increase Air Pollution-Related Health Risks in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill
Dogpatch and Potrero Hill are sandwiched between two freeways: Highway 101 and Interstate 280. These roadways not only define local geography but create the conditions for a constant hum of…
Reported Crime Sharply Down, Yet Residents Remain Uneasy
Moumita Chakraborty Reported wrongdoing has steadily declined in San Francisco, with 2024 experiencing the lowest rates in two decades. So far, the downward trend has continued in 2025. In the first half…
Potrero Annex Inhabitants Await Resolution; Delayed Demolition Date
For more than a year, the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) has tried to evict upwards of two dozen families that the agency claims are living illegally at Potrero Annex,…
Camaraderie: The Heart of Potrero Hill’s Fire Department
Bradley Akers knew he wanted to be a fireman since he was a young boy. Today, he works as an H-2 firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department, assigned to…
Hill Neighbors Clash with Developer over Kansas Street Fire Hydrant
Rebekah Moan It’s been 11 years since Dawson & Clinton first proposed constructing residences on five contiguous lots along 923 Kansas Street. Neighbors opposed the medium-density development and, after it was approved,…
Playgrounds, Dog Run, to be Added to Crane Cove Park
A new dog run, along with playgrounds designed to separately accommodate toddlers and older children, will open at Crane Cove Park this fall. The Port of San Francisco is spending…
Hundreds of Studio Units Under Construction on De Haro Street
Shovel is hitting dirt at 300 De Haro Street, where an 11-story building consisting of 425 280- to 300-square-foot studios is being constructed. The residences will be “both furnished and…
Green Benefit District Renewed Until 2040
Sixty-one percent of 1,968 property owners approved renewing the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) for another 15-year term, until 2040. Support was significantly lower than the…
SF-Marin Food Bank Preparing for Sharp Reduction in Federal Support
The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, which has provided food insecure communities with access to nutrition for more than three decades, is facing new challenges amidst severe federal cuts to SNAP,…
Tattoo Museum Would Make Ink Truly Permanent
San Francisco is home to lots of museums. The de Young and Legion of Honor feature “high” art. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not is kitschy. The Museum of Craft and…
Potrero Hill PTAs Adjust to SFUSD’s New Expenditure Rules
Last April, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) announced new restrictions on use of funds raised by Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), as well as municipal grants from such sources…
Summer Stride of Library Love
Jason Rosenbury “Summer Stride is our biggest program,” said San Francisco Public Library Mission Bay Branch Manager Jana De Brauwere. “We prepare all year for it.” As part of Summer Stride, the…
Homeless Families to be Sheltered at Downtown High School
At the end of June, a shelter for families with children enrolled in San Francisco public schools, located at Buena Vista Horace Mann (BVHM) School, will move to Downtown High…
YMCA Opens in Dogpatch
PV Staff Last month the YMCA of Greater San Francisco officially opened the Dogpatch YMCA at Crane Cove with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and daylong celebration. Photo: Courtesy of YMCA
Property Leased by Caltrans Subject to More Scrutiny, Higher Insurance Coverage
Shortly after midnight on November 11, 2023, a fire broke out under the Interstate-10 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. The ensuing inferno damaged more than 100 support columns; at least…
San Francisco General Hospital Goes to the Dogs
Hospitals are typically filled with sick adults, crying babies, anxious families murmuring amongst themselves, and nurses and doctors hurrying between patients. Yet, amongst humans, a visitor to Zuckerberg San Francisco…
Potrero Annex Residents Must Relocate to Make Way for Annex Demolition
In February, the San Francisco Housing Authority issued a state-required 90-day notice evicting 66 households living in 700-915 Missouri Street, 1-75 Turner Terrace, and 1-97 Watchman Way. The buildings, part…
Go East, Young Person!
Jenna Duncan At a recent happy hour a Haight-Ashbury bar was crowded with middle-aged folks sporting close cut haircuts illustrated with silver and grey strands. The men were largely attired in San…
Potrero Hill Bridge Being Rehabilitated
Earlier this year, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) announced plans to upgrade bridge barrier rails in San Francisco to bring them to current standards. One of the projects is…