On Friday, June 30, a six-month effort was launched to reduce the
number of toxic cigarette butt waste in San Francisco’s
Sunset and Richmond districts when SF supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer
and Katy Tang organized a kick-off event and beach clean-up at Ocean Beach.
Sunset Spotlight
A neighborhood journal for the Sunset District.
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.
Arson Suspected in Playground Fire
A fire, suspected of being arson, destroyed a major portion of the playground at the Koret Childrens’ Playground in Golden Gate Park.
City Aims to Build Teachers’ Housing
A plan to turn the Francis Scott Key Annex in the Outer Sunset District from a dilapidated
surplus school property into new housing for teachers is moving forward, as city officials
seek ways to keep educators from leaving for less expensive towns.
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.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor of the Richmond Review.
July Calendar of Events
Things to do in July, 2017.
Commentary – Quentin Kopp
A 2015 Pew Research Center poll disclosed that 40 percent of people ages 18 to 34 support censorship of statements offensive to minorities, while only 24 percent of those
who are 51 to 60 agree.
Real Estate
I examined the single-family home markets in the Richmond and Sunset districts and compared them
against the data in San Francisco as a whole.
