Mayor Lee and the Central Market Holiday Party

We had a great shoot today with Amy Cohen from the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development and then we were off to the Central Market Partnership's holiday party. What a cool surprise when San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee used this opportunity to announce the new Central Market Economic Strategy. We were the only video camera on-site and our film will include this exclusive footage (and through the generosity of the Mayor and his press secretary, we also recorded a personal interview just for the film!)

Dan's exclusive interview with Mayor Lee

Alexander Quinn

Darryl Smith (left) of the Luggage Store Gallery

JD Beltran from the SF Arts Commission with Mayor Ed Lee

Mayor Lee announcing the Central Market Economic Strategy

Our cameraperson Erin filming the Mayor as JD Beltran looks on

Mayor Lee with Jordan Klein from the Mayor's Office of Economic & Workforce Development

Shannon Amitin (left) from farm:table announcing his new central Market Street location, Carolyn Diamond, Executive Director of the Market Street Association, David Addington of the Warfield (right)

Phil Jaber of Philz Coffee chatting with the Mayor and also announcing a new location in central Market Street

James Hanusa (left) of Burning Man

The Bold Italic Spends 24 Hours at 6th and Market

This was done last year (June2010) and shows how quickly things are changing in the area (or not?). Either way it's a great piece and we are grateful to have these folks at "the Bold Italic " around....

most infamous intersections and one of its least understood. People from all walks of life cross paths here, but most don’t intermingle. The neighborhood is mostly known for its gritty liquor stores, strip clubs, and SROs, but the landscape is changing dramatically with pioneering restaurants, cutting edge galleries, and revitilization efforts taking hold. On Saturday, June 5th, to get a better sense of what the intersection is really like, locals from The Bold Italic decided to stay a while – for 24 hours in fact. They captured their experiences on video and in the vignettes below.... read the entire article here

This is great news for the revival efforts!! Dottie's is an institution...

...and maybe I can actually get a table before everyone knows where they are.

From SFGATE

Dottie’s True Blue Cafe moving to Sixth Street

Posted on 11/22/2011 at 4:32 pm by Paolo Lucchesi in Closures

Passion Cafe. Photo: The Chronicle

Dottie’s True Blue Cafe has remained one of the city’s most popular destinations for people who like to wait in line for brunch, due in part to its cozy environs and tourist-friendly proximity to Union Square hotels. Now owner Kurt Abney is rolling the dice by eliminating both of those assets.

According to Tablehopper, Abney — who has been looking for a new location since summertime — is taking his famous pancakes to Sixth Street. He’s moving Dottie’s to Passion Cafe, the ill-fated French bistro that opened in February 2010 in a beautifully restored building on Sixth Street between Mission and Market. C.W. Nevius has chronicled the difficulties of Passion Cafe in its year on the troubled block.

No definitive word on when the Dottie’s move or Passion Cafe closure will take place, but it looks like the first half of December. The new space is (at least) twice as big, which in theory should be very good news for Dottie’s line-waiters. But the key issue, as with all restaurant moves, is how well it translates. Stay tuned.

Scoop’s calls to Mr. Abney over the last few weeks have gone unreturned; sadface.

Mid-Market Art Project Open Call for Artists

More Information on their Facebook Event Page 

Mid-Market mogul: How Urban Realty quietly cornered San Francisco’s troubled main drag

Reposting from SF Public Press 

Mid-Market mogul: How Urban Realty quietly cornered San Francisco’s troubled main drag

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 Angela Hart

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 — Jul 7 2010 - 5:16pm

Update: Urban Realty is currently taking bids from prospective tenants for CityPlace, the mid-level retail mall that will be located on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets  ­— after the San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-2 in favor of the project late last week.

The vote came after a seven-year saga of garnering public approval from neighborhood groups, area businesses and citywide activists by the project’s developer, Urban Realty.

The two dissenting votes came from Commissioners Kathrin Moore and Hisashi Sugaya.

David Rhoades surveys his 2,500-square-foot retail space behind the boarded-up storefront at 925 Market St., on the mostly abandoned block just west of Fifth. The property’s interior is beautifully restored. The smell of fresh paint wafts through the air. Its walls are all exposed brick; the third-story floor-to-ceiling windows overlook Market Street. Outside, it’s barren. Rhoades acknowledges that the street scene is “derelict,” a haven for crime and homelessness.

Full article here

CityPlace: Urban Realty plans to complete construction of 250,000 square feet of retail space on Market Street by 2010. Rendering courtesy of Urban Realty Co., Inc.

Today's SFGate is reporting that:
Hearst plans major development around Chronicle

The San Francisco city block that houses The Chronicle's headquarters would be transformed with new offices, housing and small public plazas under plans that the Hearst Corp. and developer Forest City filed with the city on Thursday.

The historic Chronicle building at the corner of Fifth and Mission streets would stay, and the paper's newsroom would probably remain there. But the adjacent former Examiner building on Fifth Street, which is not considered historic, would be replaced with an office tower slightly higher than the InterContinental hotel across the street.

Forest City wants to turn the site into a home for the young tech companies that San Francisco is trying hard to attract and keep. They would share the space with arts organizations - some of which are already housed in the Chronicle building - and small retail shops. A public space on the Chronicle rooftop and a small plaza on the block's interior would give residents and workers spots to relax and meet.

Read the full article here 

6th Street Photo Workshop

Dan and I spent some time today meeting with Tom Ferentz and Renee Jones at the 6th Street Photography Workshop. What an amazing project and such beautiful photography. They started out in the early 90's and are still bringing great art instruction to the people of the Tenderloin area. We may use some of their work from the early days of 6th and Market in the film. Watch this space for more info about that...

...but in the meantime, they have a show coming up on December 1st at 49 Geary that is not to be missed. Click on the Corden Potts Gallery image below for details.

Will three be a crowd in San Francisco's Mid-Market?

Angelo Sangiacomo’s Trinity Properties wasted no time in kicking off phase two of his 1,900-unit Trinity Place project. And it’s a good thing, because if he had, he might feel Crescent Heights and AvalonBay breathing down his neck.

Sangiacomo’s next phase of Trinity Place, 417 units, is currently a rather profound hole at 1169 Mission St. “We are down to the bottom of our hole and starting with out test pile program,” said Walter Schmidt, the chief financial officer of Trinity Properties. 

Read the entire article from SF BusinessTimes 

Galvanize

Looks like this could be a great event!  

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