But just as exciting for me, living where I do, is that today's Socketsite tells me that this project, delayed for a decade (mostly by Chris Daly and friends) is
actually under construction at Golden Gate & Larkin:
Quote:
A 7-story/68-foot tall parking garage by Hastings College with 430 spaces (300 for the college, 130 for the public, and an increase of 170 over the previous surface area lot), two City CarShare Pods, secure bike storage and 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail intended to “encourage students to linger in the community."
Originally expected to be completed by the end of 2008, expect construction to continue for another 16-18 months.
As a plugged-in (and perhaps a little dazed) "torchrunner" notes, "The new Central YMCA will go in next door" on Golden Gate. (But that's not set in stone.)
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Source:
www.socketsite.com
Source:
http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=3845
Between this building and the PUC building, Golden Gate will go from a windy wasteland to a dense urban street. Now if they'd just demolish the building across the street from the new PUC structure and build on that and the adjacent vacant lots.