Monthly Archives: February 2010

SFPD Southern Station Community Meeting

The location of the San Francisco Police Department’s Southern Station Community Meeting on Wednesday, February 17th at 6pm has been changed to the Police Commission Hearing Room on the 5th Floor of the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street. Keep reading

Community Patrol Crime Activity Report

The following is compiled by public safety advocate and neighbor Ken Craig … SOUTH BEACH / RINCON HILL / MISSION BAY NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME ACTIVITY REPORT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDING THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT (SFPD), PATROL SPECIAL POLICE (PSP), BUSINESS OWNERS AND RESIDENTS TO ASSIST US IN UNDERSTANDING CRIME TRENDS… Keep reading

Temporary Transbay Terminal Set to Open in May 2010

According to the San Francisco Examiner, the Transbay JPA and transit service providers are beginning to gear up for a May 2010 move from the current Transbay Terminal at 1st and Mission Streets to the newly built Temporary Transbay Terminal at Howard and Main Streets. Transbay JPA executive director Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan said the Authority is… Keep reading

Google Fiber to the Home in San Francisco?

The San Francisco Examiner is teasing us techie folks with a story hinting that Google may consider San Francisco as a test city for their fiber Internet connection to the home. Since Google’s San Francisco office is in Rincon Hill, I would hope that Rincon Hill neighbors would be among the first to have the… Keep reading

Transbay Redevelopment Block 11A CAC Meeting Outcome

The Transbay CAC meeting had a record-breaking attendance yesterday.  Rincon Hill neighbors came to the meeting to voice concern primarily about the building design’s usage of a portion (1/3rd of the frontage) of the Folsom Street face for non-retail use.  The neighborhood plan (Transbay Redevelopment Plan) took a lot of time and community members’ efforts… Keep reading

Block 11a Supportive Housing Plans for Your Review

Thank you to Mike Grisso of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for providing the design schematic and an overview of the design that will be presented this Thursday at the Transbay CAC meeting at 5:30pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the 2nd Floor Conference Room. There are two design criticisms that… Keep reading

Community Patrol Crime Activity Report

Ken gets this information out on the weekend … afraid I’m the bottleneck in getting it posted here. SOUTH BEACH / RINCON HILL / MISSION BAY NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME ACTIVITY REPORT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDING THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT (SFPD), PATROL SPECIAL POLICE (PSP), BUSINESS OWNERS AND RESIDENTS TO ASSIST… Keep reading

Preview Design of Supportive Housing Project on Folsom at Essex

Michael Chao from Community Housing Partnership contacted me last week to ask that I encourage interested Rincon Hill neighbors to attend this Thursday’s Transbay CAC meeting at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor, starting at 5:30pm.  CHP and their partners in the Block 11a Supportive Housing project (Folsom Street at Essex Street)… Keep reading

Mission Bay Families Monthly Meeting

On February 28th at 10am at Axis Cafe on 8th Street (near 16th Street), the next Mission Bay Families monthly meeting will happen. This group welcomes families from Mission Bay and other SoMa waterfront neighborhoods. The tentative agenda for February 28th includes …. We are going to try and meet on the third Sunday of… Keep reading

SFMOMA Raises $250 Million to Expand

Exciting news from  SFMOMA …. SFMOMA is pleased to announce today that it has received landmark contributions totaling more than $250 million to expand the museum and double its endowment. Making up more than half of a projected $480 million campaign goal, these pledges from museum leadership will fuel SFMOMA’s plans to triple its gallery… Keep reading

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