It is interesting that city officials still do this. I guess it is what is called getting closure. The Cesar Chavez improvement project seemed to take forever, but now it is done. If you want to celebrate, attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the northeast corner of Cesar Chavez and Capp streets.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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Army Street looks terrific! Who would have thought it; the street had been a dump for such a long time! Looks just as good as the stretch from Dolores St going into Noe Valley.The palm trees are beautiful. Much easier to get around now that it is not an extension of the freeway. Drivers are forced to slow down & watch what they are doing. The new lighting is a vast improvement over the dimness that was before. Another upgrade would be to add more sidewalk trees, as well as try to do something about the rundown, blighted properties along the way.
Displacement. Gentrification
Seriously? What is your issue with a safer, cleaner street, with calmed traffic? Palm trees too foofy?
THANKS TECH BUSES! 🙁