So the houses on this street have stayed the same, but the people inside have changed.
Thusly:
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Typically, a crack house would be rendered inhabitable by a fire or something and then somebody would come along to fix the place up.
Typically.
Merry Christmas!
This is how San Francisco millionaires live:
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And inside the garage? A silver Prius, natch.
[UPDATE: Barbara Taylor has the deets.]
[UPDATE II: And it should be noted that Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture designed the landscape for this project.]
Well here’s the news from last week:
“U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced the recipients of the 2011 Sustainable Communities Grants, totaling nearly $96 million. Twenty-seven communities and organizations will receive Community Challenge grants and 29 regional areas will receive Regional Planning grants. The goal of HUD’s Sustainable Communities grants is to help communities and regions improve their economic competitiveness by connecting housing with good jobs, quality schools and transportation.”
Our San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission scored $5,000,000 worth of these grants, so some feds dropped by to celebrate this afternoon.
San Francisco Mayor with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi greeting people at the brand new Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments for the formerly homeless on Fulton near Gough:
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Oh, here they are up at the Richardson’s awesome-looking rooftop garden:
And here’s Supervisor and MTC Commissioner David Campos. (To him, Nancy Pelosi “will always be Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”)
Remember this mural? I haven’t seen it in a while. Anyway, here’s where’s your Central Freeway used to be. Parcel G., specifically, per the Socketsite.
All the deets, after the jump
Here are two of them.
As seen on Baker Street:
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And parked behind these were two more guesthouses, you know, the South Wing.
Why do so many people live in vehicles on the Streets of San Francisco?
We can talk about that sometime…
Eventually, NIMBY homeowners, who, you know, have nothing against you personally but they just want you gone gone gone, will contact the authoritahs and here’s what they’ll do. They’ll send somebody over to knock on your door to see what you’re up to.
And here’s what you’ll do: NOTHING. And then the cops will leave. Easy peasy.
Eventually, you’ll get a colony going, you’ll be trading tips and laughing at the uptight NIMBY homeowners, you know, those impotent people.
You’ll be there for years, saving all kinds of money on rent, utilities and whatnot.
Baker, recently:
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Post, a while back:
Hurray?
(IMO, poorly-rated ParkMerced (The Mistake By The Lake) should be razed to the ground and replaced with more normal and higher density housing, and that’s pretty much what’s going to happen, sooner or later, so that’s good.)
Don’t get me started about the basements of the high-rise apartments at ParkMerced, and the people living down there (granted, this was a few years back) on mattresses and stealing electricity, and stealing your panties (just panties, thank you, nothing else) from the driers, and stealing bikes, bike parts, etc.*
Storing your bikes in the catacombs of PM, well that’s like crossing the river Styx and entering Bicycle Hell, or at least that’s my impression. As stated, IMO, the buildings of ParkMerced, well, They Should All Be Destroyed.
But what’s this, there’s a dedicated Bike Room at the Presidio Landmark Apartments and here’s what it looks like ?
OMG, it’s Bicycle Heaven!
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(Put this setup in the basement of Park Merced and then the Park handtools would be gone in an hour and the expensive tool chest would be on craigslist the next day.)
So this is where your money goes, on stuff like this, when you pay rent at the PLA.
Hurray!
*Uh, Legal, can we get a an approved stamp, you know, on possible defamation issues?
YES, “APPROVED.” LEGAL.
kthx.
You remember a year ago when I told you Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments Now Halfway Done?
I do. Good times, huh?
Well, here it is, all finished, AFAIAC:
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It looks better than the artist’s conceptions, I think. Swoopier, anyway.
Hurray!
Leave us remember:
“This is the scene these days down at the Civic Centerish worksite of the Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments – it’s just a shrouded box now, see?
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This is what Central Freeway Parcel G looked like at the beginning, back in April…
David Baker + Partners Architects, San Francisco, California
…and May:
David Baker + Partners Architects, San Francisco, California
And this is what it will look like soon:
You won’t be able to miss it:
Should be done by August 2011.”
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As seen on Market Street:
Walnut Creek has four-story developments now? Isn’t this place sort of dense for a what’s supposed to be a leafy suburb?
Those are the questions you ask yourself as you search for the big screen with your name on it in the Great Big Suburban East Bay.
Is the bulk of San Francisco’s ParkMerced this dense?
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If not, why not?
So maybe you want to move into the Presidio but you don’t like all the old construction. Well, now’s your chance, cause the new Belles Townhomes from Forest City in the Public Health Service District are the only new construction resdences you’ll find in the Presidio.
These units are well fitted out, to a higher level than what you’ll find at the more suburban Wyman residences to the west and the more youthful (and also more empty-nester, I’d guess) Landmark Apartments to the east. The pricing still hasn’t been set, AFAIK, but it’s likely to be stratospheric what with the engaged living and all.
This will be your view from the deck. You can see the Wyman Avenue homes to the left and the old PSHS Hospital / Landmark Apartments to the right. And off in the distance there’s Sutro Tower on the left and some other kind of tower on the right:
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The view looking down from the highest set of stairs:
They’re all pretty much the same. The floorplan:
And here are your more professional (mofessional) shots:
This could be your home office:
The kitchen is way up high on the third:
Open the windows and it smells like forest inside:
Looking north through the patio, ‘neath the photovoltaic panels:
Tall and thin windows to match some of the historic homes on Wyman Ave:
Save your pennies and maybe you yourself could live here someday.
