Third Street, from 20th to 24th streets, home to an eclectic collection of commercial spaces, retail outlets, residences, and public transit infrastructure, is facing increasing parking demands. Situated in the…
Bill Canihan has spent the last two and a half years working to secure permits to redevelop his 891 Carolina Street property. His father, William Canihan, Senior, acquired the single-family…
By Chris Block and Steven J. Moss “Encampments of people on City streets and in parks or long lines at soup kitchens are distressingly reminiscent of the Hoovervilles of 50…
The City and County of San Francisco hopes to encourage midsize biotechnology companies that emerge from Mission Bay incubators to move to South-of-Market, Pier 70, and other Southside San Francisco…
At a mid-March gathering, roughly a dozen Southside residents met with University of California, San Francisco and Perkins + Will staff to discuss designs for the university’s new graduate student…
After Ali Vahabzadeh moved several times to secure a more convenient commute to his South-of-Market workplace he became aware of the value San Franciscans place on a reliable, stress-free, and…
On a rainy afternoon in February, at Farley’s, on 18th and Missouri streets, Keith Goldstein, 66, talked to the View about how he came to retire. Goldstein, the founder and…
Death is in the Zeitgeist. Everyone’s talking about it, or not, as the case may be. One place to discuss the generally taboo topic is at a Death Cafe, an…
Last month, San Francisco Youth Soccer (SFYS) president Po Bronson emailed the families of players to announce that the league plans to address concerns raised at the organization’s annual meeting,…
Over the next two years, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will design and implement improvements to the baseball and soccer fields and lower level off-leash dog play area…
In response to a campaign by Friends of Franklin Square, the City is expected to roll-out three capital improvement projects aimed at making Franklin Square safer and more engaging. The…
“It’s not a lack of compassion, it’s a lack of action,” said San Bruno Avenue resident Gregg Stauffer, about the City’s homeless problem. Stauffer, along with other Hill residents, is…
When it opens this spring, a stroll around Mariposa Park will reveal a gorgeous new member of the Mission Bay Parks System – a linked walkable green space circuit –…
The City’s two water taxi operators, which launched Port-sanctioned service in 2012, are profitable enough to want to increase the size of their fleets and number of landing sites this…
Development activity continues in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, with the modern style and amenities associated with new residential projects steadily eroding the industrial vibe of yesteryear. Adam Gould, Potrero Dogpatch…
Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved legislation that requires the San Francisco Planning Commission to ensure developers consider a number of design features before a large…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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