Third Street Banners are Now Up Along Third Street!

From the Bayview Merchants Association,

Last year, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency awarded the Bayview Merchants’ Association funding to create, print, and install Third Street banners for Bayview-Hunters Point’s Third Street corridor.  And one year later, with the support and guidance of the BVHP Project Area Committee (PAC),  BAYCAT, artists Malik Seneferu and Juan Fuentes, local printing service Yes V Can, the Third Street Corridor Project, Renaissance Bayview,  neighborhood business owners other community stakeholders on the Third Street Marketing Committee, the Third Street banners are FINALLY (partially) up along Third Street!  This is a huge victory for the Bayview Merchants Association and the entire Bayview-Hunters Point community and we would like to thank everyone who was involved in the process for helping make this project a reality.

Read more at the BMA's blog.

Nonprofit Says City Took Revenge for Airing Views - NY Times

John Upton of the New York Times/Bay Citizen writes,

Saul Bloom is preparing to pack up roomfuls of overstuffed binders in the offices of the small nonprofit environmental organization that he helped form almost 30 years ago. Arc Ecology, whose headquarters in a faded white storefront are protected by metal bars in the Bayview neighborhood’s crime-ridden Third Street commercial district, must move to a more affordable location after losing a key contract with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.

The loss in September of the contract — which never exceeded several hundred thousand dollars a year — comes after Arc’s opposition to key elements of the sprawling Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard redevelopment plan that was passed by the Board of Supervisors in August.

Read more at NY Times

Take a Walk on the Waterfront

Looking for an outdoor activity this weekend (rain or shine)?  How about checking out India Basin?

Saturday November 20
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Meet at Heron’s Head Park, Cargo & Jennings

FREE. Join the India Basin Neighborhood Association (IBNA) on a 3-mile flat walk along the beautiful shoreline & hear about the Community Vision for the future. This tour travels along what will someday be a portion of the Blue Greenway. See the only SF waterfront property not in the public trust.

The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency has created a DRAFT Plan for the 76-acre India Basin Shoreline — from the PG&E Power Plant to the Hunters Point Shipyard — that changes: Zoning, Building Heights,Transportation, and Housing Density. Their plan calls for 1200 housing units and up to 85 foot building heights. Meanwhile, the IBNA Community Vision takes advantage of this unique location for active recreation and entertainment areas, jobs and business opportunities, family homes, boating center, community farm, dog park, skate & bike park, and creative transportation solutions. Find details on www.indiabasin.org

The walk begins and ends at Heron’s Head Park, with 8 informational stops. Wear sturdy shoes. All invited.