If you live in The Tenderloin, you know there isn’t a full-service grocery store (like a Safeway) in the neighborhood. Sadly, if you Google “grocery 94102″, one of your hits is Walgreens. Ugh.
Many locals buy their fruits and vegetables at the Heart of The City Farmers’ Market (UN Plaza), 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday.
You may have seen the signs and petitions regarding [city] legislation that would hand operation of the market over to the City’s Real Estate Division. A good thing? There was a hearing at City Hall last Thursday on the topic.
I was curious how things went, so I spoke with the manager of the market this morning. He told me that the city would not take over the market, and that a representative from the city would be on the HoTCFM board. Something, he said, he was fine with. The city will start charging the HoTCFM an annual permit/usage fee.
Good news — the Market will continue as is, and (hopefully) the fees will contribute to the maintenance and cleaning of U.N. Plaza. <an interesting link on UN Plaza>
Filed under: Good Urban Experience, Tenderloin, What's Going On? | Tagged: City Hall, Heart of The City Farmers' Market, kevin Montreuil, The Tenderloin, UN Plaza
Excellent article by the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
It is shameful, shockingly so, how this city treats its architectural heritage. Since Moscone and Milk were murdered, the thugs, hacks, and puppets of downtown developers that have run City Hall have mismanaged and destroyed much of San Francisco’s architectural legacy. Worse, there isn’t any end in sight.
There are many who now live in this city who have absolutely no idea how beautiful San Francisco once was a mere 35 or 40 years ago.
One piece of good news is that the National Register of Historic Places will very likely be making the Tenderloin an historic district this summer, but it will take the continued efforts of all of us who love not just this neighborhood, but all of San Francisco, our home, to take back and preserve the commonwealth that is rightfully ours.