Majority of School Board Seats in Play
Jessica Zimmer It’s concerning that most of the San Francisco School Board’s seven spots are in play, said Emily Wang, Potrero Boosters and Dogpatch Neighborhood Association Member-At-Large and Starr King Elementary School…
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Neighbors Protest BioLabs’ 700 Indiana Street Project
Rebekah Moan Potrero Hill and Dogpatch residents have submitted two formal requests for the San Francisco Planning Commission to reconsider approval of MBC BioLabs’ proposed 700 Indiana Street development. The project consists…
Coyote Family Makes Potrero Hill Home
San Francisco is home to an estimated 100 coyotes, some of which frequent Starr King Open Space and the area around Potrero Hill Recreation Center. Although human-animal interactions are generally…
Polluting Discharges into Mission Creek Could be Impacted by Two Legal Conflicts
The City and County of San Francisco is engaged in two legal cases related to polluting discharges into San Francisco Bay. In the first, CCSF is wrangling with the U.S.…
Potrero Gateway Park Could Open This Month
According to the Department of Public Works (DPW), after numerous delays the Potrero Gateway Park (PGP) may finally be finished this month. Spearheaded by the community, the park will provide…
Protected Bike Lane Opens on 17th Street
Odin Thien-An Marin The 17th Street Quick-Build project was completed in June, after just a few weeks of construction activity. The project is part of San Francisco’s Vision Zero initiative, which has the…
Unsafe Drinking Water Plagues Bryant Elementary
For the entire 2023-2024 academic year Bryant Elementary School students, teachers, and staff contended with classroom disruptions. Not from COVID-19 but from the absence of something basic: clean drinking water.…
22nd Street Trail Stair Steps Forward
Friends of the Potrero Hill Recreation Center (FOPHRC), composed of Hill residents who advocate on behalf of the Potrero Hill Recreation Center and Playground, has solicited proposals from licensed landscape…
Rain, Soil Contamination, Delay Bayfront Park Opening
Bayfront Park, 5.4-acres located between the Chase Arena and the Bay, is likely to open by the end of the year. Construction was delayed by the need to remove contaminated…
Community Garden Gives City Dwellers a Place to Grow
PV Staff Situated at the corner of 20th Street and San Bruno Avenue, alongside a quaint red bench and picnic table, are 53 highly sought after urban garden plots encircled by a…
Esprit Park Expected to Reopen in September
Esprit Park is scheduled to reopen in September, roughly eight months after the completion date identified in the original renovation plans. According to San Francisco Recreation and Parks (RPD), rain…
Neighborhood Merchants Generally Doing Fine
Danny Pham While some San Francisco commercial corridors experienced dramatic reductions in demand between 2019 and 2023 – sales tax revenue dropped by 43 percent South of Market – sales tax revenues…
High Care Costs, Pandemic Period Policies, Increases Shelter Demand for Dogs
San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC) is experiencing a deluge of dogs due in part to the high cost of veterinary care and the pause in neuter and spay…
Four Candidates, Plus Roughly 40 More, Vie to Replace Incumbent Mayor
Steven J. Moss Mayors running for reelection typically scare off significant challengers, given the power of incumbency. Not so this year. Four notables – Mark E. Farrell, Daniel Lurie, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha…
The History Issue
The Potrero View’s special History Issue in April features a cover showcasing Alison Pebworth’s map of the Phantom Coast and images of our neighborhood’s rich manufacturing and shipbuilding history. We…
Starring Potrero Hill
Jim Van Buskirk Potrero Hill has starred in dozens of feature films, television shows, and commercials over the last fifty plus years, capturing our photogenic corner of the City, as well as inadvertently…
Historic Buildings and Their Stories
THE RICHARD’S HOUSE, 301 PENNSYLVANIA AND BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION. HOSPITAL, 331 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE The Italianate Victorian at 301 Pennsylvania, at 18th Street, is one of Potrero Hill’s oldest mansions, built…
Potrero High Schools Have Low Graduation Rates
Jenna Duncan Although San Francisco high schools slightly exceeded the state average for students graduating within five years of starting, San Francisco International and Downtown high schools, both in Potrero Hill, had…
Parking Reduced to Improve Pedestrian Safety
Mark Steensland As a result of Assembly Bill (AB) 413, as of January 1, 2024 drivers are no longer allowed to park within 20 feet of a crosswalk, marked or unmarked, on…
Green Benefit District Holds Election
The Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) has its annual board elections this month, in advance of a year in which the organization will work to convince…
Neighbors Say Proposed Indiana Street Building is Great, for Somewhere Else
MBC BioLabs wants to develop shared laboratory, office, conference, and community rental space for biotechnology startups at 700 Indiana Street. Prospective Dogpatch neighbors indicate that they don’t generally oppose life…
City Shaves Sidewalks as Part of Repair Program
Pedestrians throughout San Francisco have noticed what appear to be random incidences of the grinding down of portions of sidewalks. The patches of polished cement are sometimes adjacent to trees.…
At Dogpatch Studio the Future is Now
Nestled in a walkway outside Uber’s Mission Bay headquarters at Pierpoint Lane and Bridgeview Way is a tall, highly reflective serpentine structure that bounces sunlight from its geometric, shiny, stainless-steel…
Franklin Square Park Gets a Pit Stop
In November a staffed Pit Stop public toilet opened in Franklin Square Park. Friends of Franklin Square hope that the temporary toilet will ultimately be replaced with a permanent facility.…
New Buildings Attract New Residents to Area
Chaitanya Tondepu Potrero Hill was mostly used as pastureland by European settlers during the 19th Century. The earthquake and fire of 1906 triggered mass migration into the community from adjacent neighborhoods, including…
