Supes Extend Biotech Tax Break
En Español Tweaking an existing tax break for biotech that few companies use, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a change this week that gives new biotech companies the full 7.5 years...
View ArticleBayview Responds to T-Third Muni Violence
En Español District 10 community leaders worked this week to bridge the divide between Asian and African American residents, a rift exacerbated by high-profile crimes against Asian residents on the...
View ArticleAn Evening at Third and Oakdale-Palou
En Español Two incidents of violence involving Asian residents– one in January on the platform and one in March – have focused attention at Bayview’s T- Third Street stop between Oakdale and Palou...
View ArticleQuestions on High Speed Rail: Mission Bay Roundup
En Español For Mission Bay, high-speed rail means changes to two intersections, changes that haven’t been clearly outlined as yet. That made it difficult for the Mission Bay Citizen’s Advisory...
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Kayaking down Mission Creek
En Español Drivers in the unrelenting traffic streaming along Interstate Highway 280 Thursday were probably unaware of the adventure pending below them. A group of youngsters were getting ready to...
View ArticleCommunity comment invited today on future of UCSF’s Mission Bay development
Provide your 2 cents on the pedestrian environment, housing, parking and development. Thursday, June 17, 6:30 p.m. at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus, Genentech Hall, Rm N114, 600-16th Street, San Francisco.
View ArticleUCSF Plans for Empty Mission Bay Land
En Español In just a few years, the Mission Bay campus of the University of California, San Francisco, has solidified into a destination, with foot traffic, a farmers market, housing and a plaza with a...
View ArticleJellyfish and the Secret of Immortality
If the name Turritopsis nutricula doesn’t roll off your tongue, try remembering “immortal jellyfish,” the nickname of this species of long-lived critters that are migrating from the sea to the science...
View ArticleGood Morning Mission!
It’s 7 a.m, 51°F and headed to a high of 63°F. Today is the last sunny day before clouds roll in, bringing some showers with them. But before you let seasonal affective disorder rain on your spirits,...
View ArticleThe T-Train at Night
Bayview resident Andy Yang stood shivering in the cold for over half an hour waiting Friday at 8:53 p.m. for a T-Third Street Muni to take him downtown. The 28-year-old, waiting on the Third Street and...
View ArticleMIXED MEDIA: Pier 64, Once Home
By DEIA DE BRITO, ARMAND EMAMDJOMEH and LOLA CHAVEZ The shoreline of the San Francisco Bay was once home to sailors, commercial fishermen, Navy workers, and more than a few hobos and wanderers. Over...
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Biotech on a Shoestring
The recession may have wreaked havoc on the job market and businesses large and small, but entrepreneurs still find some perks, like discounted office supplies. “We have picked up a few pieces,” said...
View ArticleQuick bites – a roundup from Mission Bay
News summary from San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood New affordable housing development Bridge Housing Corporation, with funding from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, is opening the...
View ArticleNew School for Mission Bay? Not Soon.
Mission Bay parents dream about walking their kids to an elementary school that soaks up the intellectual capital of next-door UC San Francisco and is only blocks from bay views, transit and downtown....
View ArticleCEOs and Profs Debate Whether Technology Can Cut Health Care Costs
Imagine a good fraction of all health care and technology hype you’ve heard recently getting dissected, debated and debunked by scientists and entrepreneurs instead of politicians. That’s exactly what...
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Mission Bay’s Past, Present, and Future Urban Landscape
En Español What is the attraction of abandoned urban places? Is it the feeling of something forgotten, a type of abstract, collective nostalgia? Maybe these places provide relief from engineered...
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Mission Bay Roundup – Considering Warehouses
The region’s citizens advisory committee considered a variety of Mission Bay news Thursday, most notably the future of a warehouse on land slated to become public park. BLUEPETER Mission Bay’s master...
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Pollution Unmonitored in Mission Creek
En Español Regulatory officials called Mission Creek a “toxic hot spot” in 1999, and marked it as one of the bay’s most-polluted spots. But today, no one can say how the little waterway measures up,...
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UCSF Lab Uses Brains & Street Smarts to Fight Deadly Parasite
A few years ago a chemist made an offer under the table to Jim McKerrow, a professor at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus. McKerrow accepted and drove down to South San Francisco, backed his car up...
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Mission Bay Roundup: Hospital on 16th Street
En Español The University of California, San Francisco is on schedule for constructing its children’s, women’s, and cancer hospital in Mission Bay, though offices for medical school faculty still need...
View ArticleHuge Mural Planned for Caltrain Turn at 7th & Townsend
En Español Artist Brian Barneclo is proposing what may become the city’s largest mural project along the Caltrain turn at Seventh and Townsend Streets. The Mission Bay Community Advisory Committee met...
View ArticleMayor’s Affordable Housing Proposal Stumps Locals
En Español San Francisco is broke. The banks aren’t lending. And development in the Eastern Neighborhoods, which includes the Mission, has slowed to a crawl. That means that there’s less money than the...
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Art, Science Mixer At Mission Bay
As researchers trickled out of UC San Francisco’s Genentech Hall on a warm, windless evening this week, assorted visitors with stylish glasses and prettier footwear made their way against the flow and...
View ArticleThe King of Hazardous Waste
En Español In 1997, a UCSF scientist named Stanley Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering prions, the proteins responsible for mad cow and new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
View ArticleWarriors in SF? and more: Mission Bay Roundup
News snippets from San Francisco biotechiest neighborhood. Farmers’ market returns Spring is really here, and after being shut down since November, Mission Bay’s farmers’ market is back. Buy local...
View ArticleCity to Subsidize Market-Rate Childcare
En Español The Planning Commission agreed last week to waive almost $2 million in development fees for two mixed-use projects being constructed in San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods. In exchange,...
View ArticleHiring Slows in Biotech
En Español This year’s biotech career fair at the University of California, San Francisco saw the smallest turnout of potential employers ever, according to Bill Lindstaedt, director of the...
View ArticleFree Rides from Mission to Mission Bay
En Español To amend the minimal public transportation options in Mission Bay, local businesses and UCSF have joined forces to run shuttles within the neighborhood and from Mission Bay to BART stations...
View ArticleRiding MUNI’s Third Street Line
En Español Bayview has seen four, high profile MUNI-related attacks on Asians this year, one that resulted in the death of 83-year old Huan Chen. Three of the incidents were connected with the...
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