“I don’t know who, but someone made certain that a large number of locally owned restaurants (Ebisu, Deli Up, Yankee Pier, Emporio Rulli) were given space in the refurbished SFO.”Yes, the airport is publicly owned, not a private development, and yet this policy has made it one of the most inviting places to wait for a plane in the country. But if we nail the epic public-transit aspect of the plan—the linchpin that makes everything else fit into place—if we demand creativity from developers and responsibly spend the multimillion dollar fees they’re paying, if we enable the quirks that make neighborhoods great, who knows? Great cities have a character and purpose that arise from different eras. Racism has no place in that view, or in ours.”Statues of Columbus have come under renewed scrutiny across the country in the midst of ongoing protests about police brutality and racism, and are part of a broader ongoing reevaluation of the country’s past that includes the removal of many Confederate monuments.California lawmakers on Tuesday also announced the removal of a Columbus statue from the state Capitol in Sacramento.The Columbus statue is not the first piece of the past in San Francisco to be targeted for removal. The vast majority will be located south of Market. A mushroom with a message is one of the mosaic tile details on the Hidden Garden Steps, part of the San Francisco Crosstown Trail, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in San Francisco… Whole new neighborhoods are being created out of a two-mile-long swath of San Francisco that once held rail yards, freeway on-ramps, and port facilities. Back in 1986, city residents voted to encourage building high-rises south of Market Street, thus avoiding neighborhoods such as North Beach, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and the Castro. M was a line in the sand,” says Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association, or SPUR. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Glimpse Big Basin’s gorgeous Skyline-to-the-Sea… Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) UCSF plans at least eight acres of landscaped public space and has unveiled the rolling oval common area behind the Ricardo Legorreta–designed community center. The Municipal Transit Agency, which runs Muni, predicts that the central subway will be complete by 2016, but I wouldn’t take any bets on that.Meanwhile, the city and the high-rise developers aren’t about to let people spend $2 million for a luxury condo without a parking space. Glimpse Big Basin’s gorgeous Skyline-to-the-Sea trail — before the wildfires hit The full trail crossed 33 miles from the mountain ridge above Saratoga to … EarthCam partnered with the South End Rowing Club and Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel to bring you panoramic views of San Francisco! Sausalito SUP: Stand-up paddleboarding and seafood add up to the perfect day So does an LA filmmaker. Blueprints call for 49 acres for tennis, basketball, volleyball, dog runs, playgrounds, and even a kayak launch at the bay’s edge.
... Fall Schedule 2020. It really looks like the reduction in vehicular traffic has cleared the smog and increased visibility which I am thankful for in these covid times! The end point, when the new neighborhoods have taken on the shape and texture suggested in the blueprints, is roughly 2020. Minor bummer, I thought.That was six more miles than we thought we signed up for, in addition to the newly discovered detour that would also add on some extra mileage.I knew this experience would make me feel invincible later — already having walked nearly 20 miles, now surrounded by redwood groves, luscious ferns and a rushing river — but for the next five miles, I regrettably lost that foresight. SFMTA director calls the capital budget forecast ‘grim’ for coming years Where will the $4 billion come from? Looking back now, it was the first time we had stopped and rested for more than 15 minutes at any point during the entire journey. Here's what to keep in mind as you dream, though. But not just anywhere. Each block, at 550 feet, is longer than any other in the city. So I — along with my trusty friend Justin — decided to briskly trek the trail in one day … and hopefully live to tell the story.In our defense, many of the trail reviews have the length at 25 miles. This will be the next chapter in San Francisco’s transformation. They’re scheduled for demolition, and Caltrans is giving the newly exposed land to the city. The trail stretches from SaratogaÕs Castle Rock Park to the beaches of Davenport.
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“If developers move in and buy up every low-rise garage, parking lot, and factory south of Market, there are going to be serious economic consequences.” Many of the people I talked to, including Peter Cohen and Ellen Ullman, consider this the next big problem. These details soften a city’s edge. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, CA - JULY 24: Cobwebs catch leaves from falling to the floor of the forest along the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, Friday, July 24, 2020, in Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
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San Francisco is creating out of long-ignored land and with heavy-handed tinkering a new downtown that employs more people, offers more services, provides more housing, and proudly extends the skyline even as it—dare we hope?—maintains its soul. Mission Bay’s parking garages—which fail the New Urbanist paradigm by being aboveground—are defensible, too, because the high water table left planners no choice, and the architects have mostly done a good job of hiding them.As for a monument, the designated showstopper is the Transbay Transit Center and adjoining tower.