By Dominic Fracassa Monday, August 21, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle A cadre of San Francisco officials told a crowd of concerned residents Monday evening that the city is seeking collaborative, permanent solutions to address the public safety issues looming over Dolores Park and the neighborhood surrounding it. The packed community meeting at Dolores Park Church was convened […]
Home is no more. Bulldozers finished the demolition in March to make way for construction of a new apartment building with retail leases. Photo: Steven Bracco on Instagram By Brad Bailey (Castro Courier) New changes are coming to the corner of Church and Market in the Castro. The site was previously the location of “Home” […]
Upper Market St. Development May Offer 96 New Apartments Changes are afoot at the corner of Duboce Avenue and Market Street. By Brad Bailey (Castro Courier) A proposed mixed-use development at 1965-67 Market Street is one of the many in recent years that could soon be changing the Upper Market landscape. The highly visible site […]
Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink to history. Let us toast San Francisco as a drinking town, and let us celebrate the life and times of one of the city’s oldest saloons. That would be the Elixir, an establishment at 16th and Guerrero streets in the heart of the Mission, the oldest neighborhood in San […]
Friends of the Urban Forest is having a tree planting event in the Castro and Mission Dolores neighborhoods on May 20th. They need volunteers and sponsors for trees. Please contact FUF or see maps on their site for details on tree planting locations that are already planned in the neighborhood for the May 20th planting. […]
With President Donald Trump in office, an LGBT historic site in San Francisco has dropped its request to become a National Historic Landmark, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The leadership of the Women’s Building in the city’s Mission district had been working with Donna Graves, a public historian based in Berkeley, to fill out […]
Bryan Kappa recently started a free mulch program for gardeners and homeowners in Mission Dolores. It’s called Chip Drop, and it connects people with local tree companies who are willing to drop off whole truck loads of wood chip mulch for free. For more details, see the Chip Drop press page.