Tag: Open Space
Opinion: The Giants are playing a numbers game with affordable housing
The waterfront proposal doesn't do as much for housing as the team would like you to think
By Peter Cohen and Fernando Martí
MAY 12,2015 -- We love our baseball team,...
At 16th and Mission, collective housing must go — but tech offices can stay?
Mission landlord wants to evict Station 40 -- but he's got a tech office in the same building, which is not zoned for office use
By Tim Redmond
MARCH 12, 2015...
Flipcharts, planners — and the ongoing attack on blue-collar jobs in Soma
By Zelda Bronstein
NOVEMBER 21, 2014 -- On Tuesday, November 18, from 6-8 pm, the San Francisco Planning Department held an open house on the draft Central SoMa Plan at...
Scenes from the Plaza Party
By Tim Redmond
JUNE 14, 2014 -- A festive crew took over the 16th and Mission BART plaza this afternoon, making a statement that a diverse community fears a big...
The other waterfront monstrosity: SF Giants get even sweeter deal than Warriors
By Tim Redmond
The Warriors arena – that giant spaceship on the Bay – is getting most if the attention in the fight over the future of San Francisco’s waterfront....
Mayor Lee’s latest plaza-privatization plan is based on a troubling New York model
By Tim Redmond
The Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development is pushing a plan that would allow private entities to "sponsor" public plazas – potentially allowing more commercial activity...
Citywide tenant convention: “This is the start of a movement”
By Tim Redmond
FEB.10, 2014 -- Among the old-timers at the San Francisco tenants convention Saturday, the same question kept coming up: When was the last time we saw this...
The (quiet) privatization of San Francisco
By Tim Redmond
It is, of course, illegal to drink an open alcoholic beverage on the streets of San Francisco. It's also illegal to sit on the streets.
Unless, that is,...
