The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is likely to return to Golden Gate Park through 2021, with The City reaping additional financial benefits from the multiday concert.
A proposed contract extension, which will be considered by The City’s Recreation and Park Commission at an upcoming meeting, would extend the permit for eight more years and allow for up to 10,000 more daily attendees at the event. Read More
The San Francisco Zoo is poised to receive an upgrade for young creatures of the human variety to enjoy.
The dilapidated playground on the northern side of the zoo, named the Elinor Friend Playground, was the focus of a lawsuit about disability access that was settled in 2005. Now the site is set for a full makeover, pending approval from the Recreation and Park Commission. Read More
Having a private foundation manage a nine-hole golf course in Golden Gate Park — a scenario feared by some local golfers — has been pushed back for at least a few months. Read More
Fresh off a seven-year stint on the Recreation and Park Commission, David Lee is attempting to pull off something that has never been done before: beating an incumbent in a Board of Supervisors district election. Read More
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission approved Thursday to name a Chinatown recreation center after a local Chinese-American flight attendant who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.According to department officials the commission unanimously approved to name the center at 1199 Mason St. as the Betty Ong Chinese Recreation Center.The center is undergoing renovations and is expected to reopen in early 2012. Read More
