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
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Property Leased by Caltrans Subject to More Scrutiny, Higher Insurance Coverage
Mark Steensland 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
Chaitanya Tondepu 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
Jessica Zimmer 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
Danny Pham 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…
Dogpatch Business Reaches for the Stars
Science fiction stories have frequently inspired real-life inventions. Martin Cooper, for example, the Motorola employee considered the father of the modern cell-phone, was stirred to innovate by the communicators used…
Tommy Egan
Tamala Motta Tommy Egan was a well-known, much loved and respected, although generally drunk, former professional boxer who lived on 20th Street between Third and Illinois streets during the second half of…
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Proposes to Eliminate 55-Dogpatch
Rebekah Moan The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) proposes to reduce the number of bus lines, stops and service frequency by four percent as a means to shrink an impending $50…
Starr King Elementary Wins Honor Roll Award
Last fall Starr King Elementary School was one of 22 San Francisco Unified School District campuses to receive an Honor Roll Award from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The…
SF Police Department’s Revised District Station Boundaries Receive Mixed Reviews
Southside residents are concerned that law enforcement will be less robust in their neighborhoods if newly proposed police district station boundaries are adopted. Under SFPD’s 2024 district boundary report, submitted…
Burglars Use Mail Key to Access Multiple Dogpatch Buildings
A Dogpatch condominium building was burglarized twice, along with a third attempt, in the span of four days earlier this year. Instead of smashing windows or picking locks, the criminals…
Green Benefit District to Wilt Unless Property Owners Opt to Renew
The Dogpatch and Northwest (NW) Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) was founded in 2015 by residents who wanted more communal spaces in an area previously dominated by industrial uses.…
Rash of Burglaries Besiege Dogpatch, Potrero Hill
Thomas Hunter II Over the last couple of months several break-ins occurred at Dogpatch and Potrero Hill businesses. On November 7, around 2 a.m., burglars slammed a stolen car into the front gate…
Starr King Open Space Struggles to Raise Money for Maintenance
Starr King Open Space (SKOS), 3.5-acres located along Carolina Street south of 23rd, extending to De Haro Street at 24th, has been maintained by an elected board of directors and…
San Franciscans Like to Read, A Lot
San Franciscans are readers. Fifty-five percent of residents have a library card, compared with a 29 percent average nationwide, according to the San Francisco Public Library Commission. And cardholders are…
Potrero Terrace-Annex Beset by Challenges
Construction of the Potrero Terrace and Annex housing complex was catalyzed in 1937, when the U.S. Congress passed the Housing Act as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal,…
As Coyote Sightings Rise, City Advocates Coexistence, Avoidance
As San Franciscans increasingly share videos, photographs, and first-hand accounts of coyote encounters on social media and at neighborhood gathering spaces, municipal officials encourage coexistence with the animals. “Six months…
San Francisco Flower Market to Open After Several Delays
While an official opening date hasn’t yet been announced, the San Francisco Flower Market is inviting vendors to relocate to its new 901 16th Street location this month. According to…
Jackson Park Dog Debate Tails Off
Last summer’s conflict between dog owners and athletics groups over whether canines should be allowed to roam free in Jackson Park appears to have subsided, but tensions remain over the…
Muttville Moves to Mission Creek
Last summer, Muttville Senior Dog Rescue moved to a $15 million, 18,000 square foot campus at 750 Florida Street, settling into buildings that had housed Advance Pleating & Button Company…
Showplace Square Open for Business
Lorraine Sawicki Many people believe that the San Francisco Design Center caters exclusively to professionals. While it’s true there’s limited public access, some showrooms welcome casual shoppers, especially for small projects. The…
Mayor’s Race
Odin Thien-An Marin The View compiled responses to a series of questions for the most competitive candidates for Mayor. See page 4 for additional coverage. Public Safety and Crime By most accounts the…
City Grapples with Rising Seas
Climate change is causing global sea levels to rise as melting glaciers and ice sheets turns frost into water that drains into oceans, while warming sea water expands ocean volume.…
Mission Bay School to Open in 2026
Steady progress is being made constructing the pre-kindergarten (PK) through fifth grade Mission Bay Elementary School at 1415 Owens Street. The 550-student capacity facility is expected to be ready for…
