John Zipperer

News Briefs

Sept. 8 cleanup

By John Zipperer

On Sept. 8, Love Our City, an effort to clean up San Francisco while bringing together residents, merchants, and elected officials as a united front, invites people citywide to pic... Read More
News Briefs

Benefit for Middle Polk

By John Zipperer

The new Discover Polk Community Benefit District became the 15th CBD in the city when it was formed in July. The group will have at its disposal about $600,000 a year to spend on i... Read More
News Briefs

Anything but rapid transit

By John Zipperer

Get set for parking and driving disruption this month on Lombard Street. San Francisco Public Works notified locals that construction on the Lombard Street Vision Zero Project woul... Read More
Police Blotter

Cops and robbers: Crime reports

By John Zipperer

This is just a sampling of recent crimes handled by the officers of Northern Station and Central Station. AUTO BOOST June 11, 1 p.m. Divisadero at Hayes Streets A witness reported... Read More
News Briefs

August facts and figures

By John Zipperer

12: percent of San Franciscans surveyed by the Tuolumne River Trust who knew that the Tuolumne River was the source of water for the Hetch Hetchy reservoir . . . 64: percent of lit... Read More
News Briefs

Proposals for Campus for Change

By John Zipperer

Nine organizations submitted proposals for the redevelopment of the Presidio’s Fort Winfield Scott. The 30-acre site will be transformed into what the Presidio Trust is calling a... Read More
News Briefs

Russian Hill neighbors picnic

By John Zipperer

The Russian Hill Neighbors group will hold its summer picnic August 11 from 12–2 p.m. at Tee-Pee Park on Hyde Street. The picnic’s open to RHN members and their families — bu... Read More
News Briefs

Washington Square Park gets six-month closure

By John Zipperer

Neighbors and visitors to North Beach’s Washington Square Park will have to find other places to hang out in early 2019 when the park closes for six months while the city upgrade... Read More
News Briefs

Union Street to Mayor: Clean up the streets

By John Zipperer

Upon the inauguration of London Breed as the city’s mayor, Union Street Association President Eleanor Carpenter congratulated her but implored her to deal with the city’s homel... Read More
News Briefs

The last straw

By John Zipperer

On July 24, the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a ban on plastic straws, joining other cities including Vancouver, Berkeley, and Seattle. Known as the Single-Use Food Ware ... Read More
News Briefs

Chrissy Field Avenue’s new life

By John Zipperer

In late July, the Presidio Trust closed Crissy Field Avenue to vehicular traffic and began the process of changing the road for use only by pedestrians and cyclists. The changes wi... Read More
Real Estate Reporter

Home of the whopper

The sky’s the limit for pricing; but a tariff-caused recession could dig a big hole for San Francisco real estate
By John Zipperer

When Board of Supervisors President London Breed became Mayor Breed in July, no one could escape hearing that the new mayor grew up in public housing, or that she has been a renter... Read More
Real Estate Reporter

Party over at Freddie and Fannie’s

By John Zipperer

Like almost nobody I know, I love secondary market mortgage securitization. It got a bum rap during the Great Recession, but its failings were in the execution, not the concept. ... Read More
News Briefs

July facts and figures

By John Zipperer

$11 million: amount raised by the Francisco Park Conservancy toward the $25 million needed to construct Francisco Park . . . 97.2 percent: amount of an average wage earner’s sala... Read More
News Briefs

Cost of renting

By John Zipperer

The cost of renting a one-bedroom residential unit in San Francisco is still rising, and several Northside neighborhoods are among the most expensive in the city. According to a ne... Read More


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