City planning commissioners approved an ambitious proposal Thursday for new high-rise buildings and neighborhood improvements intended to revitalize the South of Market area surrounding the planned Transbay Terminal.The Transit Center District Plan outlines developments in the neighborhood, as well as ways to raise revenue to help pay for the new $4 billion terminal at First and Mission streets, such as a special property tax on new construction in the district.
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A plan to reshape the South of Market neighborhood surrounding the planned new Transbay Terminal, laying the groundwork for new development that could include the tallest building on the West Coast, passes before the Planning Commission today.
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Mark Donahue of HKS Architects is the lead designer for a five-story federal building at 50 United Nations Plaza, which is being renovated for use by the General Services Administration and will accommodate up to 700 people. It’s expected to open in January 2014.
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The Warriors will leave Oakland for San Francisco, returning to The City for the 2017-18 season to play in a privately financed, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex at Piers 30-32.
That’s the plan, anyway. It was announced Tuesday by Mayor Ed Lee and team owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber at a lavish ceremony attended by NBA Commissioner David Stern and other officials at what is now just a windswept parking lot atop a decaying wooden pier overlooking the Bay Bridge.
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Following several recent meetings between team leaders and city officials, the Warriors may be hoping to come back to San Francisco to play in a new waterfront arena.
The City has proposed a site for a new arena at Piers 30-32 just south of the Bay Bridge, as well as two other sites farther south. An unnamed source told ESPN on Sunday that the team wants to make the move, although team spokesman Raymond Ridder said Monday, “We’re not prepared to make any announcements at this time.”
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The Golden State Warriors may be on the verge of coming back to San Francisco, according to media reports.
An unnamed source told ESPN on Sunday that the team wants to make the move.
“We’re not prepared to make any announcements at this time,” Warriors spokesman Raymond Ridder told The Examiner on Monday morning. Asked when an announcement could be expected, Ridder responded, “I don’t know how soon something could happen. It could be days, or weeks, or whatever.”
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Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday that The City will restore $6.6 million in federal funding to preserve primary care and critical support services and programs for San Franciscans living with HIV/AIDS.
Programs and services funded by the federal Ryan White Care Act or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been expected to lose about 15 percent of their total federal HIV/AIDS budget for the fiscal year, according to the Department of Public Health.
The mayor announced the funding after meeting with service providers and community groups.
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The economic downturn hit San Francisco homebuilding hard in 2011, choking off construction of new housing to the lowest level in at least 20 years, a new city report shows.
Even as a growing tech boom lured waves of residents to The City and drove housing prices skyward, San Francisco gained only 269 units of new housing last year — less than 8 percent of the houses, condos and rental units constructed in 2009, according to data from The City’s Planning Department.
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Tighter security will remain in place for the 101st running of San Francisco’s Zazzle Bay to Breakers race this Sunday morning, as police on Tuesday pledged to “enforce fun.”
The 12-kilometer costumed scamper across The City had devolved in past years, at least among some, into a festival of sloppy drunkenness and public urination, prompting race organizers last year to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on alcohol. That and a ban on floats will remain in place this year as an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 celebrants take to the race course.
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San Francisco is stepping up its efforts to bring the Warriors back to The City, with a proposal to build a state-of-the-art arena in time for the 2017-18 NBA season.
On Friday, Mayor Ed Lee hand-delivered a letter from himself, local and state legislators, and city business leaders to Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. It asked the team to consider the waterfront as “a spectacular opportunity” for the franchise and fans.
San Francisco and the team have had informal discussions since December.
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The long-planned expansion of San Francisco’s largest wholesale produce market, a hub for fresh food in The City, may finally be taking root.
The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, which rents space to nearly 30 wholesalers and distributors, has been a mainstay on Jerrold Avenue in the Bayview District for decades. It is a source of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other goods from local and regional farms to restaurants, groceries, hotels and specialty retailers throughout The City.
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Travelers in areas where the Tour of California cycling race is slated to speed through town today should expect delays and detours between 10 a.m. and noon.
The eight-day race will bring dozens of top cyclists to town — at least for a few minutes — on the second leg of the competition. The route begins in the Marina and passes the Golden Gate Bridge and Ocean Beach before heading down the Peninsula.
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Authorities have identified the victims of two separate shooting homicides that took place in The City on Friday night.
Georgio Joseph, 24, of San Francisco was shot in the 100 block of Broad Street in the Oceanview neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. Friday, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Joseph was found in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
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The mid-Market Street area has long been troubled by empty storefronts and homelessness, especially the few blocks directly east of San Francisco’s vacant SF Mart building.
But Thursday afternoon, construction workers on the building’s three upper floors were busy installing work stations, filling in walls and ceilings, and building out a sunny rooftop deck.
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On June 5, California voters will be asked to make legislative careers shorter and cigarettes more expensive.
Under a proposed measure billed as term-limit legislation, politicians would be allowed to spend fewer total years in the California Legislature, but craft longer careers in either of its houses.
Proposition 28 would limit legislators elected after June 5, 2012, to a lifetime maximum of 12 years in office, rather than the current 14 years.
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