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Family violence center breaks ground in the Presidio
... A ceremony this afternoon for the $18.2 million Family Violence Prevention Fund center, located at the Main Post of the former military base, drew Nancy Pelosi, actresses Nicole Kidman and Joan Chen ... Ex; 1/9/10 |
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Hooroo Sydney, G'day USA
... The actor represented the United Nations Development Fund for Women at the ground-breaking ceremony ... in San Francisco aimed at preventing domestic violence. Standing alongside her was Nancy Pelosi. SMH; January 10, 2010 |
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Global violence prevention center breaks ground in Presidio
... On Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was on hand at the former military base to break ground on an $18 million center dedicated to stopping violence against women and children. SF Gate; January 8, 2010 |
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Fishers give up on plan for Presidio art museum
Gap founder Donald Fisher and his family have decided to abandon their efforts to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio, The Chronicle has learned. SF Gate; July 2, 2009 |
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Detour ahead for Presidio drivers
Heads up -- the Presidio Trust is about to put the brakes on using San Francisco's national park as a shortcut to either the Golden Gate Bridge or nearby neighborhoods. SF Gate; September 17, 2009 |
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Presidio branches out with eucalyptus swap
The hated Tasmanian blue gum tree - better known as a variety of eucalyptus - has been blamed for virtually every evil short of snatching babies out of strollers ... SF Chron; May 25, 2009 |
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If You Build It, Cars Will Come and Require Traffic Lights
The possibility that traffic lights may be installed in and around San Francisco’s Presidio National Park – in order to manage increased traffic drawn to the proposed Contemporary Art Museum ... Streetsblog; 4/28/09 |
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Park Service warns of flaws in design plan
The NNPS has weighed in on the proposed changes to the center of the Presidio, warning that the potential combination of new buildings and an altered landscape "threatens the historic character." SF Chron; 4/18/09 |
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Enviro, Preservation Concerns Drive Opposition to Presidio Main Post Plans
Revised plans for the Main Post of San Francisco’s Presidio, which include construction of a contemporary art museum for the collection of billionaire businessman Donald Fisher ... SF Streetsblog; April 10, 2009 |
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Preservation, Public Asset Protection Groups Prepare to Save Historic Presidio From Privatization
Critics of highly controversial construction plans for an art museum, hotel/restaurant and movie multiplex in the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park ... FCJ; April 6, 2009 |
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San Francisco Shovel Ready for Freeway Project Through a Park
Five decades after activists killed plans for a major freeway traveling through San Francisco’s Panhandle, construction companies are lining up for the contract ... SF Streetsblog; March 30, 2009 |
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No room for cars at Presidio museum
... We question the Main Post's capacity for handling additional thousands of daily visitors. Even without a Fisher museum, the location is expected to draw crowds ... SF Chron; March 30, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi and Mayor Newsom Announce Doyle Drive Project Is Shovel Ready
Today Mayor Newsom and Speaker Pelosi joined regional leaders in announcing that construction to replace Doyle Drive ... will be expedited saving $90 million dollars. Mayor's Office of Communication; 2/28/09 |
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Fisher's Folly threatens the Presidio
The latest proposal for developing the Main Post at the Presidio shows exactly what's wrong with the privatized, developer-driven planning that has plagued the 1,400-acre site since Rep. Nancy Pelosi ... SFBG; 3/3/2009 |
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CrossTalk SF Fisher museum
Fog City Journal editor and publisher Luke Thomas discusses the Fisher museum proposal -- and the Chronicle exclusive -- with Christina Marie Flores. CrossTalk SF; late February 2009 |
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Fisher's Folly at the Presidio
We won’t actually see what Don Fisher’s museum and monument to himself would look like until Sunday, or whenever John King of the Chronicle decides to tell us ... SFBG; February 27, 2009 |
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Fisher museum plan toned down to mesh with park
There's a new design for the museum that Gap founder Donald Fisher wants to build in San Francisco's Presidio, and it's the antithesis of the icy box that caused uproar last year. SF Gate; March 1, 2009 |
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Daly Open to Discuss Alternative Fisher Museum Locations
District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly said today he is open to considering a location in his district for the development of Gap Founder Don Fisher’s contemporary art museum (CAMP). FCJ; February 27, 2009 |
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Pelosi vow: Stimulus will help S.F.'s Doyle Dr.
Nancy Pelosi promised Saturday that a $100 million infusion from the federal stimulus package would finally close the gap for rebuilding Doyle Drive ... SF Gate; March 1, 2009 |
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Fisher Releases Amended Museum Design Renderings Ahead of Presidio Trust EIR
Architectural renderings depicting an amended conceptual design of Gap Founder Don Fisher’s art museum proposal have been released exclusively to the San Francisco Chronicle ... FCJ; February 26, 2009 |
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Historical Association Reacts to Presidio Trust Actions
The Presidio Trust Historical Association, a nonprofit group that has spearheaded the effort to keep a large, contemporary art museum, hotel and theater off the historic Main Post ... FCJ; February 27, 2009 |
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San Francisco Landmarks Board Criticizes Presidio Trust Proposals
The San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board has sent a letter to the city’s Planning Director detailing its concerns about controversial development proposals in the Presidio ... FCJ; August 27, 2008 |
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Presidio museum location needs creativity
At first glance, the report released this week for the Main Post of the Presidio is more bad news for the proposal to place a contemporary art museum inside San Francisco's military base turned national park. SF Chron; 8/16/08 |
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Chasing a green vision for the Presidio
Back in the early 1990s, the brilliant vision was ahead of its time: The Presidio ... would include a global center for innovative ideas and technologies to make human societies sustainable ... SF Chron; 7/27/08
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Funding a global green vision at the Presidio
Congress: In the long run, federal funding might again become available. ... SF Chron; July 27, 2008 |
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Newsom Rebuked for Endorsing Proposed Presidio Art Museum
A resolution criticizing S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom for endorsing the controversial Fisher Art Museum proposed for the historic Main Post of the Presidio of San Francisco ... FCJ; July 18, 2008 |
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Hundreds of people were turned away from Monday night's packed, six-hour Presidio Trust hearing
Hundreds of people were turned away from Monday night's packed, six-hour Presidio Trust hearing over Gap founder Don Fisher's proposal for a contemporary art museum on the old Army base's parade grounds. SF Chron; 7/17/08 |
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Fisher Presidio Museum Proposal Hits Wall of Opposition
The Presidio Trust held a public hearing Monday to discuss a proposal that would place a 100,000 square-foot art museum, a new hotel, and a movie theater complex in the Main Post ... FCJ; July 15, 2008 |
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Pelosi plays park names game with bill
What's in a name? A lot, if you talk to ... Nancy Pelosi about the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Pelosi has fashioned legislation that would rename the recreation area ... Marin Independent Journal; 7/9/08 |
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Fisher's awkward location for Presidio museum
From the day it became a national park, San Francisco's Presidio has been caught between competing and often contradictory visions of whom it should serve and how it should evolve. SF Chron; June 13, 2008 |
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Presidio redevelopment plan heads into a fight
A visit to San Francisco's birthplace might leave one underwhelmed - after all, the spot where the city by the bay was founded more than 200 years ago is currently an asphalt parking lot. SF Chron; June 9, 2008 |
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Politicians seek end to deer shooting in park
A powerful cadre of politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and both California senators, called this week for a halt in the killing of nonnative deer at the Point Reyes National Seashore. SF Chron; 5/16/08 |
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Commercialism creeps through the Presidio
I don't like the George Lucas building at the Presidio. I don't like the idea of an 850,000-square-foot commercial office complex (with a Starbucks!) in a national park. SFBG; December 12, 2007 |
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Presidio gets a Starbucks
First came the troubling mandate that the Presidio needed to break even financially, a new model for a national park area. Then came the Starbucks. SFBG; December 12, 2007 |
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What the proposed Doyle Drive really is
The proposed design for a new Doyle Drive is actually a proposal for a new freeway. SF Gate; September 4, 2007 |
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Will drivers pay to fix Doyle Drive?
Drivers who cross the Golden Gate Bridge during commute hours would have to pay an extra toll soon under a plan to help fix the dangerous Doyle Drive approach to the famous span. And we think that's really GOOD. SF Chron; August 14, 2007. |
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Challenges ahead for GAP founder's modern art museum
Please give us a break. Fisher's plan for our national park, stretch the meaning of the word "park" -- or is the irony intentional? SF Chron; August 14, 2007. |
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Why Gap founder Fisher decided to build his own art museum
In a national park?? How big of a garage will be needed to accommodate museum goers? And how much bigger can the ego of one man get? SF Chron; August 13, 2007. |
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If plans go through, wheels will come off Marin Headlands
Car-free days may not be far off in the Marin Headlands and at Fort Baker, two historic sites with spectacular views and ever-increasing hordes of bicyclists, sightseers, outdoor enthusiasts and traffic. SF Chron; 08-12-07 |
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Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio
he Presidio Trust has received an offer to build a museum of international stature to house one of the world's most important collections of modern and contemporary art. Digital50.com; August 8, 2007. |
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Donald Fisher, founder of Gap, offers to build a museum in the Presidio to house his art collection
On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled her support in a statement that praised the couple's commitment to the city and the Presidio. ... SF Chron; August 7, 2007. |
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Old Navy's Chief Is One of S.F.'s Most Potent Powerhouses
Gap owner Don Fisher made quite a public splash Wednesday with the grand opening for his new Old Navy flagship store on Market Street. SF Chronicle; October 22, 1999. |
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$15 million for Presidio
The Presidio will get 24 miles of new trails, six scenic overlooks and renovations to San Francisco's only campground thanks to a $15 million donation to be announced today. SF Chron; April 12, 2007. |
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Pelosi's ugly legacy
THE NUMBERS TELL the story: As Liam O' Donoghue reports on page 12, in the 2004 capital budget for the private group that runs the Presidio National Park, 73.9 percent of the money goes to buildings. May 19, 2004. |
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A tale of two museums
The Presidio Trust's choice between the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center and the Disney Museum speaks volumes about what's happening in San Francisco's national park. Posted March 19, 2007. |
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The NewsHour covers the Presidio Trust
The Presidio of San Francisco, a former military base, is the only national park mandated by Congress to become financially self-sufficient. Posted 03-14-07. |
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Pelosi sold us out
OPINION The recent Guardian editorial was absolutely correct in its analysis of development in the Presidio: San Francisco "wound up with the worst of all worlds" ["Playing Hardball in the Presidio," 7/12/06]. Posted March 19, 2007. |
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Investigate the Presidio's money
EDITORIAL National parks are places where wildlife is preserved, saved, encouraged. Posted March 19, 2007. |
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Playing hardball in the Presidio
EDITORIAL When Rep. Nancy Pelosi began peddling her plan to privatize the Presidio back in the 1990s her chief weapon was fear ... Posted March 19, 2007. |
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The latest Presidio disgrace
EDITORIAL Here's yet another reason why the Presidio national park is a national disgrace ... Posted March 19, 2007.
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Presidio bust
Can the Presidio Trust afford to listen to its neighbors? If not, it may just find city officials willing to play hardball over a controversial housing project. Posted March 19, 2007. |
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The Presidio Trust's mystery millions
The Presidio Trust just published its annual report for 2006. This slick-looking document is distributed to the national park's George W. Bush–appointed board of directors ... Posted March 19, 2007. |
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What park privatization does to labor ...
"... The Presidio's special status as a federal enclave means the dozens of private businesses operating there don't have to abide by California labor laws." Posted on March 7, 2007. |
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California Quail numbers decline in the Presidio National Park
Amanda Witherall, of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, reveals alarming declines in the numbers of California Quail in the Presidio National Park and Golden Gate Park. |
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