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Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
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VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
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VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022. NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at CURBSIDE PICKUP NOW AVAILABLE AT POTRERO BRANCH LIBRARY In 1879, San Francisco opened its first public library on the second floor of Pacific Hall on Bush Street, which moved to City Hall in 1888. In 1918, a library station opened in the Daniel Webster School near 20th and Connecticut streets. Over time, with multiple reconstructions and expansions, this became the light-filled, seed-lending, Potrero CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident MISSION CREEK PARK P3 WILL OPEN THIS FALL Mission Creek Park P3 will transform a barren, nondescript strip of terrain into a lush, lively gateway to the Mission Bay South neighborhood. The new 1.65-acre park will serve to extend Mission Creek Park, located west of Fourth Street, and align it with China Basin Park, part of the Mission Rock development being constructedeast
ARTIST ANAHID ASLANYAN MAKES MAGIC Potrero Hill artist, Anahid Aslanyan, described her style as “modern mysticism, art that comes from the spirit and explores the dream universe of the soulintuitive, a magical process translating my emotional truths into color and form.” Aslanyan works with acrylics, aqua oils, mixed media, collage, and found objects. Nature often inspires her, with music and UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” AccordingPOTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
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VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
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VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022. NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at CURBSIDE PICKUP NOW AVAILABLE AT POTRERO BRANCH LIBRARY In 1879, San Francisco opened its first public library on the second floor of Pacific Hall on Bush Street, which moved to City Hall in 1888. In 1918, a library station opened in the Daniel Webster School near 20th and Connecticut streets. Over time, with multiple reconstructions and expansions, this became the light-filled, seed-lending, Potrero CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident MISSION CREEK PARK P3 WILL OPEN THIS FALL Mission Creek Park P3 will transform a barren, nondescript strip of terrain into a lush, lively gateway to the Mission Bay South neighborhood. The new 1.65-acre park will serve to extend Mission Creek Park, located west of Fourth Street, and align it with China Basin Park, part of the Mission Rock development being constructedeast
ARTIST ANAHID ASLANYAN MAKES MAGIC Potrero Hill artist, Anahid Aslanyan, described her style as “modern mysticism, art that comes from the spirit and explores the dream universe of the soulintuitive, a magical process translating my emotional truths into color and form.” Aslanyan works with acrylics, aqua oils, mixed media, collage, and found objects. Nature often inspires her, with music and UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” AccordingPOTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” AccordingPOTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios.COMMUNITY CALENDAR
VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES HAVE 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 neighborhoods’ population by 2025. The View compiled photographs of the existing built environment, spanning more than a centrury of design approaches, to provide a context POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS Community Housing Partnerships (CHP) and Bridge Housing Corporation broke ground last fall at Mission Bay South Block 9, also known as 410 China Basin. The 92,000 square foot, four-story structure featuring 141 modular affordable rental studios for formerly homeless individuals, along with on-site supportive services, is expected to welcome inhabitants as early as January 2022. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” AccordingPOTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look atCOMMUNITY CALENDAR
VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES HAVE 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 neighborhoods’ population by 2025. The View compiled photographs of the existing built environment, spanning more than a centrury of design approaches, to provide a context POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS Community Housing Partnerships (CHP) and Bridge Housing Corporation broke ground last fall at Mission Bay South Block 9, also known as 410 China Basin. The 92,000 square foot, four-story structure featuring 141 modular affordable rental studios for formerly homeless individuals, along with on-site supportive services, is expected to welcome inhabitants as early as January 2022. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look atCOMMUNITY CALENDAR
VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES HAVE 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 neighborhoods’ population by 2025. The View compiled photographs of the existing built environment, spanning more than a centrury of design approaches, to provide a context POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS Community Housing Partnerships (CHP) and Bridge Housing Corporation broke ground last fall at Mission Bay South Block 9, also known as 410 China Basin. The 92,000 square foot, four-story structure featuring 141 modular affordable rental studios for formerly homeless individuals, along with on-site supportive services, is expected to welcome inhabitants as early as January 2022. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
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Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20thStreet
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGED AT LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL Sexual Abuse Alleged at Lowell High School. Earlier this summer, Lowell High School (LHS) posted a statement on Instagram. “The Lowell Community Equity Committee (CEC) is disturbed by the recent reports of sexual violence and verbal abuse allegations by students and teachers on campus. The acts described in the allegations arereprehensible.
NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look atCOMMUNITY CALENDAR
VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTURE Clayroom Molds its Future. Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES HAVE 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 neighborhoods’ population by 2025. The View compiled photographs of the existing built environment, spanning more than a centrury of design approaches, to provide a context POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS Community Housing Partnerships (CHP) and Bridge Housing Corporation broke ground last fall at Mission Bay South Block 9, also known as 410 China Basin. The 92,000 square foot, four-story structure featuring 141 modular affordable rental studios for formerly homeless individuals, along with on-site supportive services, is expected to welcome inhabitants as early as January 2022. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in BAE SYSTEMS OPERATES LARGEST WEST COAST DRY DOCK AT PIER BAE Systems focuses on repair, modernization and maintenance of U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and commercial ships. The company operates two dry docks at Pier 70, one of which is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. “The shipyard has a history of more than 150 years with Navy ships,” said Karl Johnson, director of communications, BAE Systems.POTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Crime The San Francisco Police Department’s Bayview Station has a new captain: Valerie Matthews. Captain Matthews has been with SFPD for 28 years; most recently with the Major Crimes unit. She was posted to Bayview three years ago, and since then has noticed an alarming increase in the homeless population and street garbage. She’sworking
PORT PREPARING TO (FINALLY) OPEN CRANE COVE PARK Construction of Crane Cove Park began in 2019, following years of neighborhood advocacy. Now, after missing its targeted spring inaugural, the Port of San Francisco hopes to partially open an unfinished park by this fall. Work at the site stopped in April, due to the City’s shelter-in-place order, resuming in May with a limitedworkforce.
UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based inPOTRERO VIEW
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchaincompany Ripple. The
FOURTH GENERATION POTRERO HILL RESIDENT DELIVERS THE MEAT Before COVID-19 hit, Alex Pavloff, a fourth generation Potrero Hill resident, threw large cookouts with his family on Connecticut Street, hosting upwards of 100 people. That stopped due to the pandemic, but Pavloff continued to feel the urge to feed his friends and family. Pavloff’s Farm to City Meat Service was born from that impulse. POTRERO TERRACE HOUSING COMPLEX REBUILT 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 of the initial phase of a plan to fully redevelop the Annex-Terrace complex into mixed income housing by 2029. Johnnie Ledbetter was the first resident BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median FACES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Faces of Affordable Housing. Published on October, 2019 in Features by Bettina Cohen. Denise Smith and her youngest son, Roland Byrd, Jr., 23, moved into 626 Mission Bay Boulevard in 2018. They’re the first family to occupy a two-bedroom, one-bath townhome in the 100 percent below-market-rate (BMR) rental building, which opened last fall SHORT CUTS | POTRERO VIEW Crime The San Francisco Police Department’s Bayview Station has a new captain: Valerie Matthews. Captain Matthews has been with SFPD for 28 years; most recently with the Major Crimes unit. She was posted to Bayview three years ago, and since then has noticed an alarming increase in the homeless population and street garbage. She’sworking
PORT PREPARING TO (FINALLY) OPEN CRANE COVE PARK Construction of Crane Cove Park began in 2019, following years of neighborhood advocacy. Now, after missing its targeted spring inaugural, the Port of San Francisco hopes to partially open an unfinished park by this fall. Work at the site stopped in April, due to the City’s shelter-in-place order, resuming in May with a limitedworkforce.
UNOFFICIAL HISTORIC BUILDINGS INDENTIFIED IN DOGPATCH The Dogpatch Historic District was officially designated by the San Francisco Planning Department in 2003, becoming the City’s eleventh such quarter. Roughly located between Indiana and Third; 18th and Tubbs streets, it consists of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1870. Historic districts impose stringent design guidelines for new PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MONKEYBRAINS BORN IN POTRERO When the Internet was young, Rudy Rucker and Alex Menendez liked to meet for coffee at Farley’s, on 18th Street. There, the aspiring technology entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for Monkeybrains, the Internet service provider (ISP) Rucker founded in 1998. Menendez joined a year later as co-owner. Monkeybrains is now the largest independent ISP based in NEW COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REMAINS ROBUST IN POTRERO HILL The commercial real estate market in Potrero Hill and Mission Bay has so far been largely immune to COVID-19’s economic disruption. Vacancies remain low, office rents are rising, and tenants are signing leases for newly constructed retail storefronts. Life science spaces with research laboratories have a waitlist. “It seems almost impossible when you look at PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES HAVE 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 neighborhoods’ population by 2025. The View compiled photographs of the existing built environment, spanning more than a centrury of design approaches, to provide a context PORT PREPARING TO (FINALLY) OPEN CRANE COVE PARK Construction of Crane Cove Park began in 2019, following years of neighborhood advocacy. Now, after missing its targeted spring inaugural, the Port of San Francisco hopes to partially open an unfinished park by this fall. Work at the site stopped in April, due to the City’s shelter-in-place order, resuming in May with a limitedworkforce.
PREFUND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE PREFund – Potrero Residents Education Fund – has been dubbed a “success story” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and touted by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) as a model of effective parental involvement for, among other feats, successfully reinvigorating Daniel Webster Elementary School. In 2005 the schoolwas on the
CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022. COMPANY SET TO LAUNCH NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE WARNING SYSTEM What if an earthquake’s time, location, and magnitude could be known days before it struck? That’s the promise of precursor SPC, a Washington-based company which, according to its chief executive officer, Clive Cook, is “on-track to deploy earthquake forecasting technology both in California and internationally” and is “in the process of closing multiple initiatives.” According FOSSIL FUEL BACKUP GENERATORS HIDDEN SOURCE OF POWER Fossil Fuel Backup Generators Hidden Source of Power, Pollution. 6,496 BUGs are littered throughout the Bay Area, capable of generating nearly four gigawatts of electricity, and producing upwards of 259,000 pounds of greenhouse gases a day, as well as thousands of pounds of other polluting air emissions, like diesel particulate matter, thatcan
OBITUARY: LINDA CLARK Obituary: Linda Clark. Linda Clark, known to many as the “land shark” of San Francisco, passed away on October 11, 2019, in Walnut Creek, California. She was 78. In her final days she was surrounded by family and friends, toasting life with a glass of Chardonnay and her OBITUARY: JOHN C. WESTON John C. WestonJanuary 25, 1938 to April 1, 2019 Longtime charismatic Potrero Hill resident, John C. Weston, passed away on April 1. He was 81. His larger-than-life personality had livened up his block of Vermont Street for more than 40 years. “We called him the little mayor of the block,” said neighbor Matt Kruger. “His__ Menu
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DOGPATCH AND POTRERO HILL MERCHANT ASSOCIATIONS TO RECEIVE $100,000 TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES May, 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic/Features
Roughly $50,000 will be distributed to each of San Francisco’s 33 district merchant associations, including Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) and Dogpatch Business Association (DBA), as part of a $1.7 million donation from Chris Larsen, founder of the blockchain company Ripple. The funding is being provided through the Avenue Greenlight initiative, a partnership between the… Keep Reading MISSION CREEK PARK P3 WILL OPEN THIS FALL May, 2021 Development/Features
Mission Creek Park P3 will transform a barren, nondescript strip of terrain into a lush, lively gateway to the Mission Bay South neighborhood. The new 1.65-acre park will serve to extend Mission Creek Park, located west of Fourth Street, and align it with China Basin Park, part of the Mission Rock development being constructed east… Keep Reading CURBSIDE PICKUP NOW AVAILABLE AT POTRERO BRANCH LIBRARYMay, 2021 Features
In 1879, San Francisco opened its first public library on the second floor of Pacific Hall on Bush Street, which moved to City Hall in 1888. In 1918, a library station opened in the Daniel Webster School near 20th and Connecticut streets. Over time, with multiple reconstructions and expansions, this became the light-filled, seed-lending, Potrero… Keep Reading PUBLISHER’S VIEW: THREE MONKEYS May, 2021 Publisher's View The monkeys popped into my head, as if they’d been waiting for the right moment to swing down from the tangled jungle of my subconscious. I’d last seen them many years ago; a row of thumb high wood carved chimpanzees that sat on my father’s desk. One held his hands over his eyes, another over… Keep ReadingSHORT CUTS
May, 2021 Short Cuts Plastic Pooch Pollution San Francisco’s dog population seems to have exploded during the public health crisis; so too has the resulting stream of canine poop. The dominant way to dispose of this doo-doo is through the use of plastic bags, which’re no less environmentally damaging than plastic shopping sacks, cups, and straws. Long-time 20th Street… Keep Reading PROPOSED SAN BRUNO AVENUE PROJECT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF PARKING,SHADOWS
May, 2021 Development/News
Most of the roughtly 100 participants at last month’s virtual meeting about a proposed development at 1458 San Bruno Avenue vehemently opposed the project. “For the people in the neighborhood, it seems like an alien spaceship is landing and completely gentrifying the neighborhood,” said one attendee, who didn’t disclose his name. The Goode family has… Keep Reading BELOW-MARKET-RATE CONDOMINIUMS TO BE BUILT IN MISSION BAY May, 2021 Development/News
Condominiums offered at below-market-rates (BMR) to moderate-income buyers are being developed at 350 China Basin Street, where an eight-story building on Mission Bay South Block 9A (MB9A) is in the design process. The edifice will ultimately feature 148 BMR condos available to first-time homebuyers who earn 80 to 110 percent of San Francisco’s Area Median… Keep Reading CLAYROOM MOLDS ITS FUTUREMay, 2021 News
Whenever Catherine Rathsam sinks her fingers into a ball of clay the monotony and stress of the pandemic momentarily dissolves, replaced by a calm focus familiar to creatives everywhere. Rathsam engages in her art at Clayroom SoMa, the latest addition to San Francisco’s growing roster of ceramic studios. “It has been a lifesaver, because otherwise… Keep Reading DOGPATCH PADDLE CLUB WANTS TO LAND AT BUILDING 49May, 2021 Dogpatch
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During the public health crisis, long-time Dogpatch resident Adam Zolot rededicated himself to standup paddle boarding. Living across the street from the newly opened Crane Cove Park, he no longer had to lug his board to Pier 52, instead accessing the Central Waterfront with ease. Zolot saw the park as an opportunity to share his… KeepReading
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – MAY 2021 May, 2021 Community Calendar VirtualSaturday 5/1 through Sunday 5/9Literature: Bay Area Book FestivalFrom a civil rights activist who wrote what Van Jones called “the book we have been waiting for,” to a Nobel laureate known as “an artist without ego,” there’s something for every reader. $15 to $120. Youth events: free with registration. For more information. VirtualFriday 5/7 through… Keep Reading ARTIST ANAHID ASLANYAN MAKES MAGICMay, 2021 News
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Potrero Hill artist, Anahid Aslanyan, described her style as “modern mysticism, art that comes from the spirit and explores the dream universe of the soul…intuitive, a magical process translating my emotional truths into color and form.” Aslanyan works with acrylics, aqua oils, mixed media, collage, and found objects. Nature often inspires her, with music and… Keep Reading MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN EXHIBITS ABOUT TIMEMay, 2021 Dogpatch
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Two exhibitions are on view at the Museum of Craft and Design in Dogpatch, with clocked entries, adherence to public health guidelines, and 3D tours available online. The shows explore a common theme: the passage of time. Encoded Holidays is a retrospective look at a 30-year collaboration between Bay Area designers Gary Hutton and Tom… KeepReading
SAN FRANCISCO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ISSUES GRANTS FROM CITYREALLOCATION FUND
April, 2021 Features The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is accepting proposals for “The Dream Keeper Initiative” – formally known as the City Reallocation Fund – under which $120 million from the San Francisco Police Department and Sheriff’s Office budgets is being redirected to nonprofits that serve the Black community. “We know that to actually see true… Keep Reading THE GOOD LIFE GROCERY BAGS THE PANDEMIC April, 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic/Features
A year has passed since Mayor London Breed issued one of the nation’s earliest shelter-in-place orders. Much has changed since then. According to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, less than half the City’s small businesses are open. Sheltering-in-place, with roughly 31,000 people unemployed, have drastically cut demand for such services as dining out and… Keep Reading FOSTER CHILDREN NEED PARENTS April, 2021 Features Michele Foy, a pediatric nurse at the University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, dreamed of becoming a foster parent since she was a child, but didn’t think it was feasible. She’s not a stay-at-home mom nor lives in a big suburban house. She and her husband, Sean, both work. They live in a… Keep ReadingSHORT CUTS
April, 2021 Short Cuts Bus Stop Housing Moves The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved construction of more than 500 housing units, at least half of them affordable, at the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s Potrero Bus Yard. As part of the five-year project a 100-year-old storage yard and trolley bus maintenance yard located on 4.4-acres at 2500… Keep Reading OP-ED: FARLEY’S RETURNS April, 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic/News
A year ago, Chris and I got up late, watched the news and contemplated what to do about Farley’s Oakland and San Francisco. We’d worked furiously to adjust to a “to go” model in the face of a pandemic that was fast approaching like an ominous storm. We went to work on March 16 and… Keep Reading CENTRAL WATERFRONT NAVIGATION CENTER MAY REOPEN SOONApril, 2021 News
The Central Waterfront Navigation Center (CWNC), located at the east end of 25th Street, closed for the past year, may reopen soon as COVID-19 vaccinations become more widespread. Last month, Mayor London Breed announced the availability of vaccines to those experiencing homelessness or living in congregate care facilities, such as homeless shelters. When the facility… Keep Reading STARR KING ELEMENTARY BEGINS TO WELCOME STUDENTS BACK TO CAMPUSApril, 2021 News
On April 12th, the San Francisco Unified School District will resume in-person instruction for students at facilities that’re in Phase 2a of the Return Safely Together Plan. Pupils and their families will have just six weeks of near normality before summer vacation. For many Phase 2a students it’ll be the first time they or their… KeepReading
CRUISE PLANS ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATIONS IN DOGPATCHApril, 2021 News
The warehouses on Cesar Chavez Street by Pier 80 aren’t much of a travel magnet in their current state, serving as Penske rental truck storage facilities, but if autonomous vehicle company Cruise has its way, they’ll be the site of a high-capacity electric vehicle (EV) charging facility by 2022. Earlier this year Cruise announced its…Keep Reading
ACTION AUTO PICKS UP TRASHApril, 2021 News
Action Auto Care has offered car repair services on 17th and Vermont streets for 20 years. Owned by Robert Kim, who has worked in the neighborhood for a quarter-century, previously at another shop, Action boasts more than 400 five-star reviews on Yelp. Described by commentators as “thoughtful,” “friendly,” and “honest,” Kim is often an unexpected… Keep Reading SAN FRANCISCO MODERN ART MUSEUM REOPENSApril, 2021 News
Last month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art welcomed visitors with a free admission day to celebrate its second reopening since a shelter-in-place mandate was imposed a year previously. The first reopening, in October, required masks and physical distancing, but only lasted until December, when case-numbers spiked. This attempt is more cautious, with reduced… Keep Reading COMMUNITY CALENDAR – APRIL 2021 April, 2021 Community Calendar VirtualSpoken Word: Oral FloristOral Florist, by Rita Bullwinkel, is a sound library of authors, musicians, and artists reading texts encountered in their daily lives, presented as an interactive garden in which visitors click on a bud to watch a flower bloom as they listen to a recording. The petals were gathered from San Francisco flower shops… Keep Reading HISTORIC GATE HOUSE GONE April, 2021 Development/Dogpatch
I’ve worked to save the historic brick buildings at the Potrero Power Station on 23rd Street since 2018 when the site’s developer told me all these buildings would be demolished. Thankfully, plans changed. Station A, the largest historic building, will be saved and added to. I was told in January that the 100 year old… Keep Reading OBITUARY: RONALD MAGGI DINSLAGE April, 2021 Obituary Ronald Maggi DinslageMarch 9, 1947 to February 26, 2021 Ronald grew up in Potrero Hill. He attended St. Teresa’s School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory, where he played baseball. Ron received a scholarship to the University of San Francisco, where he studied law and continued to play baseball. After graduating he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants,… Keep Reading1 2 3
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