Raw Sewage Leak Plagues SF Noe Valley Residents [CBS5]
“Anyone know of a marker or plaque in the City commemorating a out bisexual? Lemme know if you do. Same goes for other examples of lesbian specific public memorials.”
Number of Lesbian Public Memorials in SF is How Low? [Petrelis]
“One side of San Francisco is all about the next big app. The other side is old school and doesn’t understand. I show my dad Facebook and Twitter, but things are moving fast. The soccer field represents change, and they’re afraid of it.”
Beach Chalet soccer fields – a fight for city’s soul [Chron]
“This October, one year after opening a Metreon location at Mission and 4th, Target is opening its second City Target in San Francisco at the top of Masonic at Geary.”
Coming This Fall: City Target at Masonic [Uppercasing]
“These installations often last just a year, but this year the Hayes Valley Art Coalition is making an exception, extending the current piece until June 2014. “
Sculpture At Patricia’s Green To Stay Another Year [Hayeswire]
“Most of the area was destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, but the businesses that rebuilt were quick to pick up where the old debauchery had left off – only this time they focused on glamour and entertainment. Instead of divey saloons, think nightclubs with dancing girls.”
Then & Now: Have a Good Time at the Hippodrome on “Terrific Street” [Curbed]
“Up the street, around the corner, is the real Fisherman’s Wharf. The boats are bigger here, and a bit scruffy. They have to work for a living. The dock where the fish boats unload along the seaward side of Pier 45 is empty. The boats didn’t go out this morning – too windy. It’s been blowing hard for 10 straight days, it seems; the salmon are scattered, not biting.”
The real Fisherman’s Wharf [Chron]
“there has long been conflicting and confusing information about some of the building’s basic history. For example: Who designed it? When was it built? Was it 1908, as stated in Splendid Survivors, or was it in fact earlier?”
Mid-Market mystery building ready for housing [Biz Times]
“Hoping to ride the profitable wave of recent hotel sales, the San Francisco’s St. Regis just landed on the market for a whopping $140 million asking price.”
St. Regis San Francisco on market for $140 million [Biz Times]
SFMOMA set to close for expansion project [ABC7]
“Members of the United Council of Human Services — which runs Mother Brown’s Dining Room and the drop-in center — is hoping to open a 100-bed homeless shelter in an empty building next to its current location on Jennings Street.”
Proposed Bayview homeless shelter would provide service where it is needed [Ex]
“The VA is looking to add roughly 340,000 square feet of space to its facilities — 260,000 square feet for research and another 80,000 for administrative purposes”
VA looking to expand its research facilities [Ex]
“Condo conversions are a problem for renters in this city because they require evictions. Rent-controlled units are taken off the market so that they can then convert to condominiums. So in the 1980s we passed a limit of 200 condo conversions a year. But this loophole was created, called tenancy in common (TIC), and there is no cap on that. That’s the entry point to becoming a condominium. That’s the heart of what this is about.”
Housing rights chief sees hope in condo conversion war [Chron]
“What’s baffling is that a company renowned for design innovation has hired one of the world’s most acclaimed architecture firms, only to unload a box that would look at home in Anymall, U.S.A.”
Boxy Apple store could shrink popular plaza [Chron]
San Francisco Cracks Down On Landlord Over Deplorable Conditions [CBS5]
