Happy Fourth of July weekend everyone...
been quiet around here... that was fantastic news for the UCSF med center... and thanks '77 for pointing out the webcam! that's a great vantage point for keeping track of progress there.
just wanted to share a few shots of what else is going on around MB...
first, a double row of tall palm trees has been planted on either side of the Fourth St entrance to UCSF - some in front of the CVRB and some out in no-man's land next to where they have just finished erecting the stone gateway column (which is actually more massive than any of the others put up thus far). here it is, looking west:
and here a shot looking south down Fourth:
work continues apace in the Commons in front of Nektar/Bayer... they have planted the sidewalk-lining, car-screening rows of trees along the north and south edges. here looking east along the south sidewalk, Radiance I in the background:
... and they've got the ground-cover plants lined up and ready to go in next:
on the east end, they are getting ready to pour the little north-south lane that separates the completed Commons parcel from this new one. looking north:
and, it turns out I was wrong about the building along the bayshore that I thought was going to be preserved. *all* buildings were removed. this is looking north along that stretch where they were:
and here is the bayfront from the top of the South St garage. I'll re-post an earlier pic from the same spot to give the before-after. after:
before (Jan 2010):
in case anyone needed a reminder, that section along the water is slated to become open space, with more room made for it by straightening the little jig in Terry François Blvd and pulling the rest of the roadway inland.
in other (non-)news...
- site prep continues at the med center site
- no sign of new activity in front of the CVRB, in the area of the connector roads to the roundabout, behind Nektar/Bayer, or on the Radiance II parcel (which has gone quiet again), disappointingly