Building Boom Puts Painful Parking Pressure on Dogpatch

By Lori Higa

Situated at the eastern foot of Potrero Hill bordering the Bay, San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood bears little resemblance to the community featured in Al Capp’s comic strip of the same name, which was “an average stone-age community nestled in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills, somewhere.”  In the City’s Dogpatch real estate is neither average, nor cheap.  But like Capp’s “tarnip” farmers who w...

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American Industrial Center Home to Eclectic Mix of Small Businesses

By Emily Ruth Henderson

Stretching along Third Street between 20th to 23rd streets, the massive American Industrial Center (AIC) is home to an eclectic mix of commercial tenants, including film, art, culinary and textile schools, designers, nonprofit organizations, and caterers.  The 93-year old facility was built – at a cost of $2 million – by American Can Company, at the time the nation’s largest can manufacturer.  In addition to the AIC building, American Can’s San F...

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Long-Time Hill Resident Continues to Educate

By Anthony Myers

At 77 years old, Alan Wendroff, who’s lived on Potrero Hill for almost four decades, continues to give back to his community.   Wendroff serves as Vice-President of Development for the Lowell High School Alumni Association, and teaches fundraising at California State University’s downtown Oakland campus.  At an age when most Americans spend their time relaxing, the former consultant and author is “trying to balance retirement with work.” &nb...

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Dogpatch Resident Works to Preserve Old Waterfront Building

By Lisa Tehrani

The plans for Mission Bay are quickly becoming a reality, with new buildings completed almost quarterly.  The area is slated to have more than 3,000 high density residential units, and 51 acres of open space, most of which will be contained in a greenbelt along Mission Creek and the Bay.  ...