Curry Fouled
Thirty Ink — a collection of Stephen Curry’s eight businesses and 13 entities — pulled out of a Dogpatch development project due to a dispute with the carpenters union. “Our dream of building a new Thirty Ink HQ at 600 20th Street has been destroyed by the [Nor Cal Carpenters Union],” said a company spokesperson. According to a press release, Curry’s company committed to relying on a partially unionized workforce, but the offer was “deemed unacceptable” by Nor Cal Carpenters Union’s director of organizing, Jacob Adiarte. “Unfortunately, our generous and completely unnecessary approach has been deemed unacceptable,” said the spokesperson. “[Adiarte] has personally gone out of his way to make it untenable for us to build in San Francisco.” Privately funded projects typically don’t require union labor unless they rely on public subsidies, though many use union workers to avoid labor conflicts…Prompted by the Dogpatch Business Association, Mayor Daniel Lurie reached out to Thirty Ink leaders and other stakeholders to try to save the development. Among strategies being discussed are finding a new general contractor, donating labor, and restructuring the scheme.
Piccino
Dogpatch favorite Piccino opened a second location in the Presidio, with plans for a third next year in Marin. Piccino Presidio’s menu features the same pizzas and popular chiocciole pasta with fennel-pork sausage and kale as the original. The new restaurant, situated in the former Sessions space on the Lucasfilm campus, is expansive, offering 230 seats, a main dining room and bar, two private rooms, and a large front porch… Flour + Water Pizza Shop opened in Mission Rock, offering quick-service pizza, under the tutelage of co-chefs Thomas McNaughton and Ryan Pollnow.
Kalifeature
The Hindu goddess Kali, often depicted as fierce and terrifying, seems to be particularly active these days, altering time and ushering in death, destruction, and, hopefully, rebirth. Among the neighborhood businesses fallen, Dos Pinas closed its Potrero Hill location earlier this year, continuing in a different fashion as Publico Urban Taqueria on Ninth Street. Café Da Fonk, also on De Haro, died in March, with its neighbor, Torraku Ramen, which first opened on the Hill in 2018, following a month later, though it musters on in the Marina… Meanwhile, fraud accusations felled the board of directors of the 888 Seventh Street Owners Association, with more than five percent of association members calling for election of a new board, to be held in June…while the number of tents occupied by unhoused individuals declined by 62 percent over the past year citywide, the Central Waterfront experienced a sharp jump in bivouacs, from six to 22.
Narking
According to The San Francisco Standard, it can take five years to secure a monthly permit for one of the roughly 850, $170 a month, spots in the San Francisco General parking garage. There are around 600 people on the waitlist, which was introduced several years ago. Those who live outside the City, distant from BART stations, must generally hope to find (sparse) street parking, park in offsite lots in Mission Bay and catch a shuttle or pay $580 a month for daily parking in the garage. While the hospital attributes high demand to staff expansion and a rise in patient visits, its advent also coincided with a shift from transit to personal driving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Still Obscured
Last month’s news that The Potrero View was in danger of folding prompted upwards of two-dozen subscriptions or donations from dedicated readers, including a generous contribution from Ralph and Regina Anavy. Still, the paper needs a few hundred more supporters to survive. Those who want to keep their View are invited throughout the publication to advertise, subscribe or donate, with limited edition anniversary T-shirts and hats available in gratitude. The View also welcomes assistance with marketing and ad sales and is open to new ownership as a means to energize the paper, which publisher Steven Moss has shepherded for 18 years: editor@potreroview.net.