Less than three years after it opened, earlier this winter Potrero Hill’s NextKids/NextSpace closed its doors. According to Diana Rothschild, NextSpaces’ chief executive officer and NextKids’ founder, the quasi-preschool was felled by the same phenomenon that’s forcing many small businesses and longtime residents out of the City: high rents. NextSpace continues to operate eight other…
The Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, a San Francisco-based cooking school founded in 1977, announced late last year that it’ll no longer accept new students, and will shutter its doors for good in September 2017. The company that owns the school, Career Education Corps (CEC), attempted to sell its educational franchise, but was…
It started when a whimsical gift from Peru encountered a serious academic challenge at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. Dan Clay, enrolled in the masters of business administration program at the school, and sporting a llama finger puppet given to him as a travel memento by a friend, was tasked with inventing a product…
As the View reported last October, the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House – known as the “Nabe” – has suffered from severe funding cuts over the past several years. At the end of 2015, the nonprofit settled a $120,000 tax lien that’d been placed on it by the Internal Revenue Service for nonpayment of payroll taxes.…
On a sunny day in Potrero Hill – a neighborhood with more than its share of sunshine in a more often foggy city – cafes and open spaces tend to be well-populated. Crowds mill outside Plow; the ting! sound of bat on ball, and subsequent hoots and hollers of a softball game, can be heard…
I’ve been a Potrero Hill resident for eleven years. Before that, I lived near Glen Park, and before that in the Sunset, where my grandparents owned a house with a distant view of the ocean; most of the time we could only see fog. I’ve also lived in the Haight, Mission, and Portola. San Francisco…
A neighborhood mainstay for more than sixty years, the Potrero Branch Library has literally measured its popularity over the decades, celebrating its one millionth patron in January. One barometer of the branch’s enduring attractiveness is the heavily attended, bi-weekly storytime sessions that the library offers for free. Every Tuesday and Thursday youth services librarian Jenny…
Located at Potrero Hill’s western edge, San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) has long demonstrated its commitment to public health. With 70 percent of its patients un- or underinsured, SFGH tends to the poor, working families, undocumented immigrants, and the elderly, regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital’s new nine-story Acute Care and Trauma Center,…
Last month, University of California, San Francisco staff and almost one-dozen Dogpatch residents and property owners held tense discussions about the university’s proposed new psychiatric center, as well as plans to develop student housing. Community members are unhappy with the psychiatric center’s proposed location, 2130 Third Street, which is now home to a building and…
QB3@953, a biotech incubator, has been so successful that many of the startups housed there are searching for larger laboratories in Southside San Francisco. But their moves have been stymied by high rents and real estate prices, as well as a lack of space for midsize companies. The incubator, launched almost two years ago, provides…
Last fall, glyphosate – commercially sold as Roundup or Aquamaster – the pesticide most commonly used by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD), was classified by the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) as a known carcinogen. Glyphosate is a herbicide used to kill unwanted plants, especially annual broadleaf weeds. CalEPA’s action didn’t go…
Invitae Corporation is moving into the former Jessica McClintock headquarters at 1400 16th Street, after signing a $7 million lease for the 103,000 square foot art deco building last September. “Right now, the landlord’s renovating the building,” said Lee Bendekgey, Invitae’s chief financial officer. “We expect…move into around the middle of the year, in June…
Walking into Yield, located on Third Street, is like entering into a friend’s living room. It’s cozy and comfortable; a welcome change to the more modern design wine bars spilled throughout San Francisco. When it opened in 2006 Yield was ahead of its time, featuring wines cultivated using sustainable, organic and biodynamic practices. In addition…
Nothing’s and everything’s changed for the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM), located on Arkansas Street, following its merger with the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) last summer. The merger created new academic and research opportunities for ACTCM and CIIS, according to ACTCM executive director Lixin Huang. Logistically speaking, 250 ACTCM students continue…
Americans are living longer, healthier, lives, redefining the meaning of aging. Today’s “old” looks much differently than previous generations. With extended lifespans, though, comes new challenges, which often require advance planning and tough conversations with family members. Given longer life expectancies and the concomitant possibility that protracted care will be needed, health care costs facing…
When should a child first visit a dentist? The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recommends a first dental checkup six months after the initial tooth erupts, or by age one. The goal of the first appointment is to introduce the youngster to the dentist and help establish a positive foundation for future care. What…
The Golden State Warriors will delay construction of their Mission Bay arena by at least a year, hoping to move to San Francisco by the fall of 2019, said Warriors chief operating officer Rick Welts last month in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. Welts’ announcement came after the Mission Bay Alliance filed…
Malia Cohen, 38, was first elected to the District 10 Board of Supervisor’s seat in 2010. She was reelected in 2014. The district includes Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Visitacion Valley. Cohen’ll be termed out in 2019, which has prompted speculation about what political position, if any, she’ll seek in the coming years, with…
At nine stories, encompassing 200,000 square feet, and housing 500 physicians and support staff, Kaiser Permanente’s Mission Bay Medical Offices, located at 1600 Owens Street, opens next month. The facility, which isn’t a hospital – emergency services won’t be available – will principally serve Southside San Francisco residents, who may have had trouble accessing Kaiser’s…
The San Francisco Giants, Anchor Brewing Company, and Port of San Francisco are progressing with plans for their Mission Rock development in the wake of last year’s passage of Proposition D by 74 percent of voters. “We’re obviously delighted with the final numbers of the election,” said Fran Weld, vice president of strategy and…
After winning the approval of voters and electing a board of directors, the Green Benefits District, which covers the Dogpatch and northwest Potrero Hill neighborhoods, is set to beautify the area over the course of 2016. The process has been long – the original concept for the GBD was formulated back in 2012 – but…
In the face of rising food prices, detachment from the natural world, and ever-more ominous reports of climate change, many residents of Potrero Hill are joining in a burgeoning urban agriculture movement. Marianne Horine, who has tended a plot at Potrero Hill Community Garden for over 20 years and currently serves as Garden Coordinator, can…
The 22nd Street Greenscape Connection is a $3.6 million infrastructure improvement project located between Pennsylvania Avenue and Illinois Street along 22nd street. Features of the conceptual design, created by Fletcher Studios, include planting trees, improving bike lanes and pedestrian paths, 7,150 square feet of permeable paving (allowing for some storm water absorption), 7,150 square feet…
Located on Phelps Avenue in Bayview Hunter’s Point, the Southeast Treatment Plant is one of two facilities that process water for the city of San Francisco. Built in 1952, this plant treats the majority – 80% – of the city’s wastewater flow. Wastewater is defined as a combination of street runoff and the water that…
For Friends of Jackson Park it is an exciting time. The group, a grassroots organization founded in 2013 to improve the green spaces in Jackson Park, was allocated $1.6 million in 2014 by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. A master upgrade and renovation plan, for how to best spend the recently acquired funds,…