SF News SF Is Renovating Playgrounds More Quickly and Cheaply Due to Law Inspired By $1.7 Million Toilet After SF gained national attention over a $1.7 million toilet in Noe Valley, SF passed a law in 2024 enabling city departments to utilize cooperative purchasing to reduce costs and red tape on small projects like playgrounds and public toilets.
SF News Group to Protest Over Plan to Install 20 Acres of Astroturf at Crocker Amazon Park Residents are protesting at FanFest Saturday over SF Rec and Park’s plan, in partnership with the Giants, to install 20 acres of artificial turf at Crocker Amazon Park to create five new baseball diamonds, which requires the removal of over 100 trees and the disruption of a vital green corridor.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Most New Expensive Park Opening Saturday, as India Basin Waterfront Park Spruces Up Hunters Point After being fenced off for years, the 2.5-acre India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes has its grand opening Saturday, and will eventually be part of sprawling 65-acre park that hopes to rejuvenate Bayview and Hunters Point.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Camp Mather Celebrates 100 Years (Though at a Party 180 Miles Away From Camp Mather) The spirit of rural Tuolumne County came to the Bayview District Sunday, as the SF Rec and Parks Department celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of San Francisco's furthest-flung park, the popular Mather Family Camp.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rec and Park Summer Camp Registration Starts Tomorrow Parents of school-aged children best be getting their fingers warmed up for the big summer camp registration over at SF Rec and Park, which starts tomorrow at 10 a.m. The camps
