Category Archives: Market-Octavia / Hayes Valley

Thumbs Up For Market-Octavia and 55 Laguna

14 April 2008 – 12:58 pm

A busy week prevented me from posting about this earlier, but better late than never: as you may have already read in the Chronicle, there have been favorable updates at the Board of Supervisors concerning the Market & Octavia Plan, which I addressed in a post a couple weeks ago. Supervisors Mirkarimi and McGoldrick had [...]

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Market-Octavia: Building a Vibrant Hub

31 March 2008 – 8:09 am

Courtesy Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects, Inc.

For several years, the City of San Francisco has worked to develop the Market & Octavia Neighborhood Plan, studying neighborhoods centered on the pivotal intersection of Market and Octavia, bookended by Church Street on the west and Van Ness Avenue on the east. The plan was one part of [...]

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Construction Progress: 9-25-2007

25 September 2007 – 7:41 am

Time for another construction update! The last construction progress post mainly focused on buildings that were recently completed or are very near completion, so this post will cover many large projects that are not as far along yet. As usual for these posts, you can click through each picture to see a larger version. The [...]

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