SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed

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I thought this project had already broken ground. Evidently, it did yesterday:

Demolition kicks off rebirth of St. Anthony’s dining hall
By: Bay City News | 09/04/12 6:01 PM

Demolition began Tuesday at the original St. Anthony’s Dining Room, which is being razed in order to construct a new facility in its place.

The dining room, located at 45 Jones St. in the Tenderloin, has served an estimated 38 million meals to low-income and homeless people since opening in 1950. It closed in February to make way for construction on the organization’s new dining room, set to open in summer 2014.

On Tuesday morning, construction cranes began tearing down a wall of the building to start demolition, which is scheduled to continue through January, St. Anthony spokesman Karl Robillard said.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/09/...h-st-anthony-s-dining-hall#ixzz25eGaYQby

And a video of the project.