Broadway is one of San Francisco’s most iconic streets, serving as a vital commercial and cultural artery through several neighborhoods. The Broadway Streetscape Improvement Project enhances the safety, appearance, and functionality of this important corridor.
 

The Broadway Streetscape Improvement Project presented a practical solution to this overcrowded corridor that connects Chinatown and North Beach communities. The project was completed in two phases. The first phase, which created streetscape improvements on Broadway between Montgomery and Battery Streets, was completed in 2005 and the second phase on Broadway between Kearny Street and Grant Avenue was completed in 2008.

Castro Street between Market and 19th Streets is one of the most well-known neighborhood commercial districts in San Francisco, serving the needs of local residents and being the historic center of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) community. The project will enhance the streetscape experience with widened sidewalks, repaving, new lighting, and street trees.

In collaboration with the public, businesses and tenants along Jefferson at Fisherman’s Wharf, the City coordinated a public realm plan that improves on this historic and important corridor with a design plan that is focused on pedestrian priorities; considering the need for wide, open spaces, improved intersections and crosswalks, and vibrant, architectural landscape upgrades that are consistent with the Wharf’s and San Francisco’s roots.
 

The Fair Oaks Neighborhood group sees Ames and Quane Streets as an opportunity for an appealing public urban open space. By optimizing streetscape improvement features, these five blocks of narrow roadway (15 feet wide) can be enhanced to become protected and integrated greenways for urban recreation and personal delight for dog-walkers, gardeners, the elderly seeking unhurried strolls or people with disabilities who need wheelchair access to nearby neighbors or restaurants can be drawn to the alleys and local children can enjoy these renovated alleys as open space.
 

The SoMa West Improvement Projects include the development of a skate park and dog play area on the Caltrans right of way parcels located underneath the Central Freeway, between Valencia and Otis streets. In order to authorize the City to build, operate, and maintain the sites and facilities, an agreement was negotiated with Caltrans and the owners of the property. The leases were approved by the Board of Supervisors. The construction of both the skate park and dog play area were bid as one project and are currently under construction.

Skate park

Although originally envisioned as a community garden, the design for the McCoppin Garden has been rethought. As a result of successful food truck event pilots and community meetings, neighbors and merchants worked to redesign and activate the McCoppin space. Several meetings were held over the summer of 2011 to revisit the design for this cul-de-sac space in the hopes of melding the vision for greenery with other ways to revitalize and enliven the space, increasing security through more activity and use.

PROJECT UPDATE

February 2011-  This project is complete.  

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