Arts & Entertainment Revised Plans For Embarcadero Plaza Renovation Unveiled, Including Grand Lawn and Dog Park After months of community input, SF Rec & Parks officials unveiled revised designs Tuesday for Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park, just as workers have begun disassembling the Vaillancourt Fountain.
SF News Mayor Breed Presses Forward With Embarcadero Plaza Revamp on Eve of Election On the last day before Election Day, SF Mayor London Breed held a press conference in Embarcadero Plaza, announcing a public-private partnership that, if approved by the Supes, intends to entirely remake the plaza along with the adjacent Sue Bierman Park.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Newest Park Just Opened Right Next to Chase Center, Featuring Steel Beams From the Old Bay Bridge SF’s newest park has some retro charm in the form of benches and beams from the disassembled old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, as the $32 million Bayfront Park just opened Tuesday right next to the Chase Center.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Most New Expensive Park Opening Saturday, as India Basin Waterfront Park Spruces Up Hunters Point After being fenced off for years, the 2.5-acre India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes has its grand opening Saturday, and will eventually be part of sprawling 65-acre park that hopes to rejuvenate Bayview and Hunters Point.
SF News Pleasant Hill Park Employee Found Fatally Stabbed In Park Early Saturday Morning 37-year-old Santiago Jacobo, who worked as a janitor at Pleasant Hill Park, was found suffering from fatal stab wounds at his workplace after he didn't return home Friday night.
SF News A Whole New Slew of Parks and Public Spaces Have Opened on Yerba Buena Island There are parts of Yerba Buena Island that have not been open to the public in generations, but they are now, in the form of hiking trails, dog parks, and more as the island takes on its long-planned new identity.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Park Opens to the Public This Weekend, At Long Last After breaking ground nearly three years ago, the pandemic-delayed Presidio Tunnel Tops park is making its big debut on Saturday and Sunday, with special events — and hopefully pretty decent weather.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops to Finally Open In Mid-July; New Battery Bluff Area Opens April 23 The new park spaces atop and around the Presidio Parkway tunnels, which have been under construction for over two years, will finally open to the public starting April 23, with the main Presidio Tunnel Tops opening on Sunday, July 17.
Arts & Entertainment Former Transbay Temporary Terminal Transformed Into Temporary Community Space With Beer Garden, Soccer The full city block in SoMa that for much of the last decade served as a bus depot while the new Transbay Transit Center was being built has been "reactivated" with a community space dubbed The Crossing at East Cut.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Parks Alliance Set to Bring Back Outdoor Movie Nights Moviegoers and SF park-lovers: Sundown Cinema is back for what's left of the summer — and it will include five free outdoor film screenings across City parks from August 27 through October 22.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Kicks Off With Pelosi In Attendance, Completion Due in 2021 The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa's Leather-Themed Eagle Plaza Breaks Ground on 12th Street The historically leather-bar-filled neighborhood of SoMa is finally getting its long-promised public park outside the Eagle Tavern. But it won't be done in time for Folsom Street Fair.
SF News City Parks Are Now Closed After Midnight Supervisor Scott Wiener's controversial legislation to close San Francisco's public parks between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. was approved by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. The
SF News [Updated] Slumber Party In Dolores Park Monday Night! (Psst, It's Actually A Protest.) Wash your Smurfs sleeping bag and brush up on your "light as a feather, stiff as a board" skills, folks. On Monday night, a slumber party will happen in Dolores Park.
