Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pavement to Parks

Eyes on the Street: Timber! San Jose/Guerrero Plaza Gets Tree Stumps

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 31, 2009 | 12 Comments

The construction of Guerrero Park. Flickr photo: throgers It may be the most dramatic Pavement to Parks implementation yet: at the intersection of San Jose Avenue and Guerrero Street, enormous logs have arrived that will form the backbones of planter beds. The Planning Department’s Andres Power provides an update: Logs that form the backbones of […]

Construction Starts on Two New Pavement to Parks Plazas

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

Barricades are up at the site of the Lower Potrero plaza. Photo: Michael Rhodes When the plaza at 17th and Market Streets opened up last May, city officials promised more Pavement to Parks projects in short order. Yesterday, there was physical evidence at the sites of two new planned plazas that the city is making […]

Demand for Trial Plazas Increases as Lower Potrero Design is Revealed

By Matthew Roth | Aug 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

Conceptual rendering of Lower Potrero trial plaza at 16th Street and 8th Street. View from 16th Street, Axis Cafe on right, Wolfe Cafe on left, under billboard. Image: Rebar Art Collective. When the 17th Street and Castro Street trial Pavement to Parks plaza was implemented in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom said at the press […]

Poof! San Francisco’s Mason Street Has Become a Temporary Park

By Matthew Roth | Aug 3, 2009 | 10 Comments

Cross sections of tree stumps for seating on Mason Street. Photo: SurfaceWork A coalition of community volunteers, pro-bono landscape architects and personnel from several city agencies this weekend swooped in to North Beach to transform the roadway of Mason Street between Columbus Avenue and Lombard Street into a temporary park in conjunction with the two-month […]

SF Great Streets Project Finds 17th St. Plaza Builds Community

By Matthew Roth | Jul 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: Jamison Wieser The San Francisco Great Streets Project (GSP) has been collecting pedestrian counts and street user surveys, and has used time-lapse photography, to measure users’ perceptions about the quality of the public realm before and after the 17th Street plaza treatments were in place. The results of the surveys show what many readers […]

San Jose and Guerrero Plaza Could Mark Triumph Over Deadly Traffic

By Matthew Roth | Jul 17, 2009 | 61 Comments

Intersection of Guerrero St and San Jose Ave, site of a new 9,000 sf plaza. Photo: Matthew Roth When Mayor Gavin Newsom dedicated the first of three Pavement to Parks plazas at 17th and Market streets, he promised to push forward with the next two trial plazas in short order, including one at the intersection […]

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