The blade sign on the venerable Alexandria Theatre – a fixture on Geary Boulevard and 18th Avenue for nearly a century – was damaged to the point that the property owners had to have it taken down.
Alexandria Theatre Deteriorates, Blade Sign Removed
Letter to the Editor: Lecture – SF’s Hidden Residence Parks
Your readers may be interested in a lecture about San Francisco’s Residence Parks on Nov. 30, 2022, 4:30 p.m. in the Department of Art + Architecture, University of San Francisco, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, 2130 Fulton St. Free to the public.
Taraval House Imperiled
Many local residents and members of the neighborhood coalition Sunset Parkside Education and Action Committee (SPEAK) and many local residents have expressed disappointment that their efforts to save the 113-year-old house at 1420 Taraval St. have apparently failed.
Richmond schools nominated for landmark status
Two Richmond District schools are being considered for “landmark status” by the SF
Planning Department and the SF Board of Supervisors (BOS), after receiving
recommendations from the Historic Preservation Commission.
St. Anne’s School Gets Seismic Rehab
“After the last few earthquakes we’ve been fortunate that there were no serious damage
other than just things falling over and some external plaster cracking, stuff like that,”
City planners want more density at Geary and Masonic site
Since the Lucky Penny restaurant has cashed in for good, the SF Planning Commission
will consider an 80-foot-tall, eight-story mixed-use building for the intersection of
Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue.
Historic Presidio Theater to be Rebuilt
The Presidio Trust has announced plans to rehabilitate the Presidio Theater, located in
the heart of the national park site on the Presidio’s Main Post, as a multi-purpose
performance space.
Future of Large Kirkham Heights Project Debated
At the southern end of Fifth Avenue in the Inner Sunset District, next to the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), sits an 86-unit housing complex on six acres of land
built in 1950 called Kirkham Heights.
Commentary – Michael Murphy
As I walked down Geary Boulevard recently, I realized as I looked at the buildings that not much has changed in the past 50 years.
Theater rebuild features pools; movies nixed
After more than a dozen years of slow and silent disintegration, it seems the final curtain
has fallen for cinema at the Alexandria movie theater.
Film highlights Parkmerced
A new film about Parkmerced will be featured at the 16th annual SF Documentary Festival in June. “Who Killed Parkmerced?” explores the fate of the largest residential housing development in the City, located next to San Francisco […]
Historic Rousseau Homes Could Get Landmark Status
…Arthur and Oliver
Rousseau, turned their attention to building single-family homes in the Sunset District, much of which at the time was still covered with sand dunes.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 