Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.
In yesterday's Chronicle, reporter John King relayed the musings of Liesbeth van der Pohl, the chief government architect of the Netherlands, on certain sites in San Francisco. She liked the Painted Ladies. She liked the De Young. And she liked...Mission Bay!?!
"It's a very nice atmosphere, so neat and well-maintained," she told King after a walk in Mission Bay. "Some of the parts are absolutely beautiful."
Um, what? I might not be an expert on architecture, but I happen to live i
Don't scream -- there's a perfectly sound place to put all Don Fisher's art: Where it already is.Kudos to the Chronicle's John King for today's scoop on Donald Fisher's decision to abandon his contentious plan to house his modern art collection at the Presidio National Park.
"Doris and I will take some time to consider the future of our collection and other possible locations for a museum," King quotes the Gap, Inc. billionaire as saying.
Presumably, this means Fisher will resume his struggle, a
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