Photo taken by Jamie Whitaker

Good article written by Carl Nolte in The San Francisco Chronicle today. You can read it online by clicking here.
It discusses the lack of intensity on the part of the City to transform the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific building on the corner of Harrison and First into [...]

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Crime is certainly on a lot of folks’ minds in San Francisco. On Friday night, I walked by a fairly new looking silver Lexus parked on Spear beside the Gap Inc. building (full on window display spotlights shining on the car no less), and I noticed someone had smashed the driver’s side window. [...]

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Jason Chan, the Mayor’s District 6 liaison, sent this out to folks on his email list this morning.
Dear Community Partner,
Over the last few months, a group of representatives from City Agencies, Non Profits, and Neighborhoods have been working together to create a new initiative called the Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN).
The goal of NEN is to [...]

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Even though it may seem like the result is already baked in the cake in some ways based on the Design & Development Competition Jury’s opinion (which should be available on the www.TransbayCenter.org web site in the Board Agenda Packet around September 7th or so, according to what TJPA [...]

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My buddy Jake in Michigan.
I was underwhelmed with this evening’s Transbay JPA Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. It is starting to make sense to me why I’m always getting meeting cancellation notices from the Redevelopment Agency’s flavor of a Transbay Citizens Advisory Committee (a separate group from the TJPA CAC that focuses [...]

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