Sabine Strauch Makes Wearable Art
Rebekah Moan Mission Bay resident Sabine Strauch didn’t intend to get into jewelry-making. The 27-year-old started oil painting as a teenager. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in…
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“Grizzly” Goings-On at Mission Creek Park
Mark Steensland In 2021, the San Francisco Arts Commission invited proposals to create pieces for the Mission Creek Park Extension Public Art Project. The idea was to suggest a focal sculpture, or…
Caltrain Railyard Transformation Project Planned
Jessica Zimmer The plan for a 20-acre development, called “San Francisco Railyards” at Fourth and King streets, is steadily taking shape. The current concept features an 850-foot mixed-use tower. If constructed it’d…
Still Sinking, But Not Sunk
Before the Gold Rush began in 1849, Mission Bay was a water body that carved into the coastline like a capital “C,” fed by Mission Creek from the west, surrounded…
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…
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…
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.…
San Francisco Bay Ferry Terminal to Make Land at Mission Bay
Bayfront Park’s south shore, where 16th Street meets the Bay, will become the site of a new San Francisco Bay Ferry terminal. The location was selected by San Francisco Bay…
AI Takes Root in Mishpot
Danny Pham Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly getting smarter and steadily finding its way into mainstream businesses. According to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which tracks public data related to…
Dogpatch, Mishpot, Mission Bay, and Potrero Hill Have Younger Populations, Newer Housing, More Renters
Potrero View Staff Dogpatch and Mission Bay are amongst the last neighborhoods to be settled in San Francisco. More than 50 percent of these communities’ housing stock was built in the 21st Century,…
Port, Rec and Parks Assume Responsibility for 18 Mission Bay Parks
Last month, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (RPD) and Port of San Francisco assumed maintenance and operation responsibilities for 18 Mission Bay parks. The more than 24 acres…
PV Staff The Canyon in Mission Rock Nearing Completion
The Canyon, the tallest residential tower built in San Francisco this year, is a 23-story residential building located on Parcel A in Mission Rock along the Mission Bay waterfront. Mission…
Neighborhoods Dotted with Public Spaces, Art
Odin Thien-An Marin Top: Five 15-foot silver spheres created by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson are located on Chase Center’s east plaza. The spheres have mirrors facing inwards that create a tunnel effect when…
LUMA Becomes Mission Bay’s First Hotel
Vivien Wang 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…
Mission Bay Building Owners Sue as Pipes Break Due to Subsidence
Julie Zigoris The Radiance, a 99-unit condominium building with entrances at 330 Mission Bay Boulevard and 325 China Basin Street, is suing the City for damages caused by subsidence, or sinking. The…
Mission Bay Elementary School on Track for 2025 Opening
Earlier this summer the San Francisco Board of Education (SFBoE) unanimously approved construction of a prekindergarten through fifth grade school and Linked Learning Hub to be located on Mission Bay…
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…
San Francisco General Hospital to Open New Office, Laboratory Space
Kai Zheng At the beginning of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital broke ground on a $290 million, 175,000-square foot research and office facility, funded by…
Grizzly Bears to be Featured at Mission Creek Park
Max Blue Mission Creek Park, off Channel Street, will be home to a new public art installation by the end of next year; “The California Grizzlies of Mission Creek.” The two-part sculpture,…
Building on Our Mistakes: Sinking Sidewalks in Mission Bay
Mission Bay sidewalks continue to sink, a challenge that could point to greater problems than twisted ankles and scraped knees. “People fall a lot,” said Brian L. who has worked…
Mission Bay’s Population Almost Doubled in Last Decade
Mission Bay’s population almost doubled over the past decade. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the neighborhood grew from 9,000 residents in 2010 to more than 17,400 two years ago.…
California Dream a Nightmare?
Joe Castrovinci The idea that there’s a California dream burst into popular culture in the 1960s through the music of the Beach Boys and Mamas and the Papas and continued through the…
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…
Residents Concerned about University of California,San Francisco Expansion
Residents are concerned about potential impacts on community cohesion, economic activity, and transportation caused by University of California, San Francisco developments in Dogpatch. Some say UCSF is expanding far beyond…