Michael Chao from Community Housing Partnership contacted me last week to ask that I encourage interested Rincon Hill neighbors to attend this Thursday’s Transbay CAC meeting at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor, starting at 5:30pm. CHP and their partners in the Block 11a Supportive Housing project (Folsom Street at Essex Street) will present their design schematic for the building. It includes some open space along Essex Street. CHP would love to have some Rincon Hill neighbors attend to take a look at the design and provide any helpful input that folks living near and most familiar with the area can offer.
On February 28th at 10am at Axis Cafe on 8th Street (near 16th Street), the next Mission Bay Families monthly meeting will happen. This group welcomes families from Mission Bay and other SoMa waterfront neighborhoods. The tentative agenda for February 28th includes ….
We are going to try and meet on the third Sunday of each month at
10:00 am. If you can’t make it but have something to add let us know!
We picked Axis because they have a nice out door play area for kids
and great food!Agenda:
Sunday February 28th 10:00 am at Axis Cafe 1201 8th StreetGrants: Kim will update us on the next set of grants we should go
after for the playground.SFUSD: Sarah will give an update on the new school site and recent
communication with the school district about getting to know our
families.Events: Heather and Arpita have been working on a table display for up
coming spring events.Outreach: Sarah will put the new web site up Sunday Feb 14th. And
have the poster and cards for review.And anything else people are interested in !
You can find their Google discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/mission-bay-families?hl=en
Exciting news from SFMOMA ….
SFMOMA is pleased to announce today that it has received landmark contributions totaling more than $250 million to expand the museum and double its endowment. Making up more than half of a projected $480 million campaign goal, these pledges from museum leadership will fuel SFMOMA’s plans to triple its gallery and [...]
The LGBT Community Center’s big annual birthday bash comes back to the Rincon Hill neighborhood’s Terra Gallery at 511 Harrison Street on Saturday, April 10th from 7pm until 11pm. Buy your tickets online today!
Join us for Soireé 8, celebrating the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s eighth Anniversary! Indulge yourself in an evening of Earthly [...]
One of the folks I met at tonight’s Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting to discuss park plans for 333 Harrison was a really nice guy named Barry London. Barry has leased out the old school barber shop inside of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific and offers pure and organic hair/body treatments and goods [...]
Thanks to Everyblock.com, I just learned that the delicious Waffle Mania Truck with sugar belgian waffles truck that sells waffles over at Civic Center’s Wednesday Farmers Market plans to park and sell their waffles in the Rincon Hill neighborhood at 1st and Tehama on Tuesdays for lunch hours. I don’t know the source of [...]

