Hundreds of residents braved cloudy skies Sunday to stroll across the new downtown plaza, ascend the steps in front of the city’s 1910 courthouse, look up at the building’s stained-glass dome and say, "Wow."City officials unveiled the $9 million restoration, which included reconstructing the facade and columns on the front of the courthouse and building an all-new plaza between the courthouse and Broadway. Work started last May, when crews demolished the Art Moderne-style fiscal building, which has concealed thefront of the older courthouse since it was constructed in 1939.
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The thousands of people who like to buy their organic produce in the shade of the Ferry Building will not have to find a new home for their Saturday shopping after all. BART announced Sunday that work to retrofit its Transbay tube, which runs underneath a pier where the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market sets up every weekend, will not force the market to move as initially thought.
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Ballooning gas prices and a recovering economy have helped ignite a shuttle bus rebound with ridership increases reaching double digits in recent months, according to officials.Credit for the current shuttle success goes in part to several campaigns launched by transit groups over the last year to convince more people to get out of their cars, but by far the biggest factor appears to be the higher cost of gasoline, according to officials.
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For 25 years, Lucretia Rauh has been watching tourists try to scale the walls around the Fay-Berrigan House, located near the crooked part of Lombard Street, to take pictures of its famed gardens.Now after eight years of work, one of The City’s most celebrated gardens is becoming its newest public park."Now they can go into the garden and not only take pictures but smell the roses," said Rauh, who has lived across the street from the house for the past 25 years and knew its last owners.
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Tori Poor started her West Portal children’s clothing shop Little Fish Boutique in the classic way. She saw a market need and put her money where her mind was."There’s nothing like this in this neighborhood," Poor, 28, said Friday. "It’s kind of something I’ve had in the back of my head that I want to do."
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Critics say Caltrain could move faster in installing fences in dangerous areasSAN CARLOS — Nearly six months into a stepped-up campaign to save lives along the tracks, Caltrain has made some progress, visiting a half-dozen classrooms, but is still working to identify locations where fencing is needed along the tracks.A half-dozen Peninsula cities have identified locations where they would like to see fencing installed along the Caltrain tracks to keep pedestrians out of harms way.
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Contributions from Medina of Lucky Chances questionedDALY CITY — In the closely watched contest for Daly City Council this year, two incumbent candidates have filed campaign finance statements with donations from a controversial casino in neighboring Colma, Lucky Chances.
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On Sunday, cars will scream through the Broadway Tunnel, zooming under low-flying helicopters and then squealing around corners in the Financial District — but only until director Philip Atwell yells "cut!"The tunnel and some downtown streets will be closed for several hours Sunday. They’re the site of a car chase in Jet Li’s latest movie, "Rogue," due out in 2007.According to his Web site, Li plays the "infamous assassin" Rogue, who kills the partner of Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Jack Crawford, played by Jason Statham, starting a "bloody game of cat and mouse."
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Police called to deal with third campus threat in two weeks; others judged hoaxesSecurity was tightened at San Francisco’s prestigious School of the Arts on Friday after school officials arrived on campus in the morning and found threatening graffiti on several walls.Donn Harris, the principal of the coveted public school, said police were immediately summoned to the campus, and the anonymous threats were painted over as soon as photographs were taken for the investigation.
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Ornate vacant theater built in 1916 to be transformed into entertainment centerBeneath several layers of paint on a wall of the New Mission Theater is a patch of gold and silver left over from the Depression era, when the theater experienced its heyday.
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