Like many young professionals living in Rincon Hill, I often work later hours in the Financial District and walk home after dark. After observing a couple of street lamps being out and non-working practically since I moved into the neighborhood last year, I decided to give the City’s 311 service a phone call from [...]

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www.XOGiving.org

Forgive me for posting a totally non-Rincon Hill or even San Francisco specific item.
There is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group called One Laptop Per Child that is a non-profit organization founded by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte and a team of educators, developers and technologists dedicated to educating children in developing countries with [...]

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The Port of San Francisco is in the process of establishing criteria in order to solicit development proposals for Seawall Lot 337 (otherwise known as Parking Lot A behind AT&T Park on 3rd Street). The lease with the Giants ends in 2009 if I remember right, and the Port is trying to figure out [...]

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Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Congratulations to the team behind the Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects design for the new Transbay Transit Center slated to start building in 2009 and to finish by 2014. I loved the City Park contribution to our neighborhood from the start, and am happy as can be that it is [...]

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Hello from Pennsylvania! Luckily for me, the San Francisco Chronicle is there to keep me in tune with local news. God bless the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com web site.
From today’s Chronicle:
Comments on the congestion pricing proposals can be e-mailed to mobility@sfcta.org.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority will hold a public forum on the [...]

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