SAN FRANCISCO | Presidio Park
Presidio park project lands architect behind High Line in N.Y.
SFGate.com John King Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014 Quote:
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the article in the opening post says 2018 opening for this, but I didn't see what looked like any relevant activity yet when I was by there yesterday
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4190/3...de73df0c_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4274/3...ccbd89a1_b.jpg edit: aha, this and this now say 2019 (and this is now called the 'Tunnel Tops' project, apparently) |
^^The "relevant activity" is that they have pretty much completed the tunnel and roadway system on top of which the minor land and hard-scaping to create the park will be done--I drove through it for my first time last weekend. So now they can proceed with the park and I don't see anything they are doing that should take much time--another year (OK, year and a half) should be no problem.
They are also hard at work on the Crissey Field marsh and surrounding areas. I wanted to take some out-of-town visitors there last weekend but the construction made that very difficult and I gave up. |
there is certainly work going on in the area, but I'm not sure it is specific to the Tunnel Tops. the tunnels themselves were completed and opened in 2015. I guess my point was it seemed like it was taking longer than they anticipated (or 'hoped' might be a better description), and the links posted above confirmed that.
I (as I imagine many of us do) just get impatient especially with these types of projects that promise to be such jewels when they are done. |
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more of an explanation for why the relevant activity has not been happening
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Where's the money coming from? I don't want my state taxes paying for SF's elaborate pleasure parks.
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I believe it is paid for with federal taxes, since it is on federal land.
That should get the alt-right’s depends in a knot. |
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Why the Presidio, alone among all national parks, should have this requirement seems egregiously unfair. The park is no more dedicated to the enjoyment of locals only than is any other park includuing the many in urban areas. |
Uh, yeah...this isn't federally funded. GGNP Conservancy is having to raise the money. Bechtel Foundation made the lead gift of $25 million several years ago.
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So... it's just a... viewing deck?
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2021 :(
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got an email today:
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There is a Burger King in the presidio?
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Who’s funding this? You would think that SF would be building the world’s greatest civic institutions and infrastructure, given the booming tech industry. But of course so much of that are these suburban companies in Silicon Valley with suburban mentalities.
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A well developed, collaborative, and open planning and partnership process has brought us to this point, starting in 1972 with the Nixon administration. The three main entities are summarized here.
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/...eld-begins.htm The Golden Gate National Recreation Area covers 82,791 acres in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties, so it extends well beyond the Presidio. |
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The city (San Francisco) tends to its own "civic institutions and infrastructure" including the city museums, Golden Gate Park and other parks. All of the city museums have now been either expanded and seismically retrofitted or replaced since the 1989 earthquake. The Asian Art Museum (reputedly the most impressive collection of Asian art outside Asia), previously rebuilt in the old Carnegie library after the city library moved into a new building, is presently undergoing expansion. The Museum of Modern Art last year opened its huge new wing (housing the Donald Fisher--Gap founder--collection and other works). The DeYoung Museum (art of the Americas) was replaced by a dramatic Hertzog/DeMeuron building and the CA Palace of the Legion of Honor (European art) was doubled in size by adding a lower floor. And the CA Academy of Sciences also has a dramatic new building by Renzo Piano. In 2012 the city passed a $195,000,000 parks bond and most of the city parks are seeing some type of renovation or redevelopment. |
Well stated Pedestrian :tup:
In addition, the nine county Greater San Francisco Bay Area contains many hundreds of thousands of preserved acres, including parks, nature preserves, scenic/recreational areas, and those zoned permanently agricultural. The open and green spaces are one of the glories of living and visiting here. |
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John King article about the project
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Imagine if the wealthy donors put together $100 million to do something about the homeless / drug addict issue in San Francisco, instead of a park... which will
be overrun by said homeless / drug addicts. Priorities, people. (And yes my money is where my mouth is, I donate a portion of my paycheck every 2 weeks to homeless organizations) |
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Hundreds of millions of dollars are already being dumped into homeless programs and foundations. Just like the housing crisis at large, money isn’t the issue, it’s policy and the management. The biggest point of contention is that the organizations themselves are largely inproficient on all accounts. |
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I don't get to this part of town often and I thought they finished that project years ago.
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But also the homeless need to be around panhandling targets and drug sellers and other parts of their millieu. None of that is readily accessible in the Presidio Park (nor tolerated by the same federal government). |
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aw, I had hoped they would be further along on this by now, but really good to get the photo update, thanks very much!
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John King article from last month on this and the work at neighboring Quartermaster Reach
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the Outpost
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https://www.presidio.gov/blog-intern...-rendering.jpg That looks like something that will give the do-gooders nightmares. Suppose a kid scrapes his/her knee or something. |
the 'other' Tunnel Tops, Battery Tunnel Tops, is also getting underway
https://www.presidio.gov/presidio-tr...RenditionID=16 |
I'll try to trek out to Crissy Field this weekend and take pics
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Opening this Sunday!
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