San Francisco Bay Ferry Terminal to Make Land at Mission Bay
Jessica Zimmer 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…
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Food Choice Central to Care at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Lorraine Sawicki Food is central to our lives. We eat multiple times a day, ordering from restaurants and delivery services and picking up items at grocery stores. We dine to nourish our…
Ten Ballot Measures to be Voted on this November
Potrero View Staff With the Democratic Party convention taking place this month in Chicago, Illinois, Californians may not be paying much attention to the slate of measures that’ll appear on the November 5…
The Potrero View Enters Its 55th Year
Lester Zeidman We’d gather Tuesday through Thursday on the last week of the month. It was a sporadic group that had no clear direction, but everyone knew what needed to be done.…
Potrero Terrace-Annex, BRIDGE Housing, Residents Complain of Poor Management
Chaitanya Tondepu For months Potrero Terrace-Annex tenants have been complaining about leaky roofs, broken radiators, and surging piles of trash and feces left unremedied by Eugene Burger Management Company (EBMC) – responsible…
Curry Scores Building Linked to Dogpatch History
John Borg When National Basketball Association superstar, Steph Curry, recently closed an $8.5 million deal to acquire a non-descript office-warehouse in Dogpatch it drew national attention, highlighting a red-hot real estate market…
Brewing Company to Redrop Anchor in Potrero Hill
In May, Hamdi Ulukaya, chief executive officer of Chobani Yogurt and owner of coffee company La Colombe, purchased Anchor Brewing Company for an undisclosed amount. Ulukaya executed the purchase through…
Historic Pier 70 Adds Bay Padel to Offerings
Padel, a racquet game popularized in Mexico, is described as a mix of tennis and squash. The sport is sufficiently prevalent in South America that when Matias “Mati” Gandulfo arrived…
“Split Incentives,” Lack of Price Transparency, Slow Pace of Debarbonization
Vishakha Patel A host of state laws have been adopted to reduce climate-modifying air emissions, accelerating the need to shift away from petroleum and natural gas and expand access to electrical appliances…
Clinic Provides Hemodialysis on Potrero Hill
Rohit Prasanna For more than a decade, the clinic located at 626 Potrero Avenue, at 18th Street, has provided hemodialysis to patients with kidney failure. Previously operating as Renal Advantage Incorporated, it…
The Park Market Returns to Crane Cove Park
Last month, The Park Market, an open-air food, music, and maker sooq, re-launched at Crane Cove Park, to be held on the last Saturday of the month through October. The…
Beneath the Fluorescents: Safeway, Theft, and the Socio-Economic Divide
Camile Messerley Ongoing activities at Safeway’s Potrero Center location highlight a broad set of social issues facing the store, San Francisco, and other urban areas. Shoppers rely on the market for routine…
InsectPalooza Can be ‘Life-Changing,’ Org Asserts
Rebekah Moan Handling a giant African millipede, which can grow up to 13 inches long and 2.5 inches around, will change your life forever, according to SaveNature.Org chief executive officer and co-founder…
Native Plants Can be Found Throughout Potrero Hill
Spring can bring fresh feelings of joyful growth. Although allergies can be triggered, the season bursts with flowers and fruits of many shapes and sizes. Some plants have been in…
Place to Play Games in Dogpatch
Mike Lin Located at 1095 Tennessee Street, Dogpatch Games is a retail store and community space that hosts events centered around tabletop games, amusements that’re typically played on a table or other…
High-Tech Solution to Reducing Noise Pollution
Mark Steensland The term “noise pollution” first appeared in a 1966 New England Journal of Medicine article about the negative health effects of unwanted sound. Six years later the federal Noise Control…
Potrero Hill Resident Interested in Sounds
Andrew Roth fell in love with sound more than four decades ago, when he was eight years old. His doctor dad would drive him from their North-of-Market neighborhood to Tower…
Rapid Robotics Takes Care of Tasks Not Ideal for Human
Rapid robotics creates mechanical arms that undertake the uninteresting, unclean, and unsafe work a human would otherwise have to do, according to the company’s chief marketing officer, Kim Losey. Numerous…
Minnesota Street Property Slated for Historic Hearing
A concerned neighbor has requested that the proposed permit for 945 Minnesota Street be withdrawn from the Historic Preservation Commission’s (HPC) calendar, asserting that it doesn’t comply with the San…
Three Generations of Community Activists
Edward Hatter has been the executive director of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, also known as “the Nabe,” since 2004. He recalls applying for an internship at the Nabe in…
San Francisco
PV Staff The designation “San Francisco” was first applied to the San Francisco Bay in the early-16th Century when Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed into the inlet. Cabrillo named the bay,…
Redevelopment in Cape Town and San Francisco Relocated Blacks
The federal 1949 Housing Act authorized demolition and reconstruction of urban neighborhoods that were considered slums. Under the legislation, “redevelopment” targeted low income and non-white neighborhoods. In the 1960s, with…
Neighborhood Leaders Essential to Civic Life
The View canvassed its readers to identify individuals who volunteer their time to make a positive difference in their community, some of whom are described in this article. The paper…
Jackson Park Redesign, Renaming Discussed
Last month, Friends of Jackson Park held its first in-person meeting at the Jackson Clubhouse since 2019. Roughly 100 people attended, including District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton, District 11 Supervisor…
Community Raises Funds for Potrero Kids Teacher Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Jenna Duncan Earlier this year, Ericka Lacayo, a popular Potrero Kids preschool teacher, was diagnosed with Stage 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, an aggressive breast cancer. The cancer hasn’t metastasized, but requires aggressive…