Potrero Hill
Damon Guthrie Meters Coming to 18th Street Commercial Strip
Connor Fitzpatrick The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will install parking meters along both sides of 18th Street between Connecticut and Texas streets by the end of the year. The meters…
Potrero Hill Recreation Center Basketball and Tennis Courts Up Their Games
Jessica Zimmer In August, San Francisco Recreation and Parks completed extensive renovations to the Potrero Hill Recreation Center’s basketball and tennis courts, resurfacing roughly 7,100 square feet of space. New basketball backboards…
Better Bus Service, Fewer Parking Spots, Coming to Potrero Hill
J. Eric Miller The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA) will alter its 22 Fillmore route and field the 55 Dogpatch next year, triggering significant reductions in parking access on Potrero Hill. More…
Pianist Katrina Krimsky Makes the Hill Home
Texas Street resident, Katrina Krimsky, is a pianist who has engaged in San Francisco’s classical, jazz, and experimental music scenes for decades. Today, Krimsky can often be found practicing and…
Potrero Terrace Housing Complex Rebuilt
Michael Iacuessa After years of political promises, 53 Potrero Terrace households moved into brand new apartments last month at recently constructed 1101 Connecticut Street. Once dubbed Project X, the building reflects completion…
Joan Jeanrenaud, Cellist, Composer
Former Rhode Island Street resident, Joan Jeanrenaud, fondly remembers her days practicing and recording cello in what she called the “Darth Vader” house. “It was an all-black house covered with…
Hill Entrepreneur Offers Convenient Custom-Fit Clothes
Bettina Cohen Potrero Hill entrepreneur, Meghan Litchfield, launched RedThread, a women’s apparel company, last October. Seven months into the startup’s debut, the business, which offers four different personally-sized garments, is steadily growing,…
So much to be grateful for…
Potrero View Staff Art Agnos served as San Francisco’s 39th mayor from 1988 to 1992, and was the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Regional Head from 1993 to 2001. More importantly,…
The Potrero Branch Library Offers More Than Books
Brittany Vargas Located at 1616 20th street, the Potrero Branch library offers books, films, and music – digital and compact discs – suitable for all ages and sweeping views of San Francisco.…
Potrero Hill Schools Engage Their Community
Veronica Dolginko Last month, Starr King and Daniel Webster elementary schools, The New School San Francisco, and Live Oak School collaborated with PREFund, a nonprofit that encourages Potrero Hill families from a…
DoReMi is the Sound of Art in Dogpatch, Potrero Hill
It’s a Saturday afternoon in late February. Art lovers and creatives are arriving for a pair of exhibit openings in the adjacent art galleries of Catharine Clark and Brian Gross,…
Pennsylvania Street Gardens Struggle with Urban Ails
Pennsylvania Garden is located at 249 Pennsylvania Avenue, underneath a John F. Foran Freeway off-ramp near 18th street. Pennsylvania Railroad Garden is on the east side of the 100 block…
Farley’s Celebrates 30 Years of Coffee Community
Paul James Farley’s, a cozy coffee shop located at 1315 18th Street, was founded by Roger Hillyard after he was unable to find a retailer that sold a glass insert replacement for…
Parking Management Plan Proposed for Potrero Hill’s North Slope
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has floated a plan to deploy several types of parking management tools on Potrero Hill’s North Slope, including weekday time limits to discourage…
Jackson Park to Feature Community Center, Elevated Promenade
Earlier this fall, more than 100 people turned out to view a proposed new design for Jackson Park, which features an elevated promenade around the park, community center with rooftop…
Rebuild Potrero Progresses
Rebekah Moan Progress continues on Rebuild Potrero, a decade-long effort to revitalize the Potrero Annex-Terrace housing complexes through a partnership between BRIDGE Housing, San Francisco Housing Authority, and San Francisco Mayor’s Office…
Potrero Hill Festival Makes Memories
Oona Robertson The house I grew up in is right around the corner from The Good Life Grocery, across from where the annual Potrero Hill Festival’s petting zoo was always stationed. I…
PCH International Part of Hill’s Industrial Design Ecosystem
Over the past five years, PCH International, an engineering firm located at 135 Mississippi Street, has engaged in numerous industrial design collaborations and sponsored exhibitions for California College of the…
Fire Activity in Potrero Hill on Par with Recent Years
Jacob Bourne In July a Potrero Hill resident posted to social networking site, Nextdoor, that he regularly heard the blaring sirens of fire trucks on the neighborhood’s northern slope. He calculated there’d…
Filmmakers on the Hill
PV Staff Last October, filming for Ant-man and the Wasp brought Marvel filmmakers to Potrero Hill. 298 Missouri Street became Ant-man’s home for exterior shots; interiors were filmed on a set in…
Sonic Disrupts Potrero Hill
Last spring, Sonic, a Santa Rosa-based internet service provider, launched service in several San Francisco neighborhoods, including Potrero Hill, advancing an internet access alternative for residents and businesses. The growing…
Underground History
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project History buried for more than a century is regularly discovered during construction projects in San Francisco. Earlier this spring, foreman Mike Handyside led a team removing tons of old bricks…
Vermont Street Drug House Finally Shuttered
Paul McDonald After years of complaints about loud noises, mounds of trash, screeching cars and random people coming and going, the occupants of 584/586 Vermont street, some of whom were suspected of…
Dogpatch and Potrero Hill Architectural Styles Have Changed Over Time
Philip Anasovich Structures, exhibiting a myriad of architectural styles, have been erected in Potrero Hill and Dogpatch for a least a 150 years. An ongoing building boom is expected to triple the…