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Buchanan Street Mall | Memory Walk design reviews + workforce development meetings this week!

This is a full week for the Buchanan Street Mall Renovations project!

The Buchanan Street Mall project team is seeking San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Design Review committee approval on the landscape features of the Memory Walk: decorative paving and ...

Last call for the Buchanan Mall Memory Walk survey!

Thanks for all the wonderful feedback folks have shared on the latest designs for the Buchanan Street Mall Memory Walk.

If you haven’t yet, please take 10 minutes to complete the survey before 5pm on this Thursday, 8/10/2023!

TAKE THE SURVEY >&...

Buchanan Street Mall Renovations | Healing circles and Memory Walk design

Thanks to everyone who is showing up and participating in summer healing circles. Community gatherings continue every other Wednesday (see below for details). National Healing Collective and Atunse Justice League are also preparing a training to skill com...

Buchanan Street Mall Renovations | Join us for Summer Community Gatherings in June, July, and August

Join neighbors and facilitators to continue conversations on healing and transformation in our community. Help recreate Buchanan Street Mall as a park that strengthens the neighborhood, builds economic opportunity, and improves health and wellness for eve...

Buchanan Street Mall Renovations | Summer Community Gatherings, June-August

Join neighbors and facilitators to continue conversations on healing and transformation in our community. Help recreate Buchanan Street Mall as a park that strengthens the neighborhood, builds economic opportunity, and improves health and wellness for eve...

Buchanan Street Mall | May Community Gatherings focus on the Memory Walk

Thanks to everyone who has participated in healing circles over the past several weeks as part of the Buchanan Street Mall Equity Action Initiative. Our project team has received very positive feedback from Fillmore community members on the quality of sha...

UPDATED! - Buchanan Mall Equity in Action April Gatherings

Buchanan Street Mall - Equity in Action 

April Happenings: Coming this month to the Buchanan Mall Community 

Wednesday April 5, 2023 -- CANCELLED -- NO COMMUNITY GATHERING ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.

Stay tuned! A survey and ac...

Buchanan Mall Equity in Action April Gatherings!

April Buchanan Street Mall - Equity Action Gatherings

Coming this month to the Buchanan Mall Community 

Wednesday April 5, 2023 -- CANCELLED -- NO COMMUNITY GATHERING ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.

Stay tuned! A survey and activities are being plan...

Community Gathering on March 22 | Buchanan Street Mall – Park Improvement Equity Action Initiative

Buchanan Street Mall Gathering

Join Us for the Next Community Healing Circle

Be a part of the conversation on healing & transformation in our community.

March 22nd 5:30-8pm (dinner from 5:30-6pm)

Rosa Parks Senior Center, 1111 Buchanan Street SF CA 94115

H...

Buchanan Street Mall – Park Improvement Equity Action Initiative: First Community Gathering on 3/15

Help shape the future of the Fillmore! Your participation is key for redesigning Buchanan Street Mall to strengthen the neighborhood, create economic opportunity, and improve health and wellness for everyone.

Come to our first community gathering to circle...

LOCATION CHANGE FOR BUCHANAN STREET MALL MEETING THIS EVENING.

LOCATION CHANGE FOR BUCHANAN STREET MALL MEETING THIS EVENING. 

The meeting will be at 1981 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94115

The Buchanan Street Mall project team is hosting our first community meeting for the Memory Walk on Wednesday 7/27, 5-7pm ...

Memory Walk Design at Buchanan Street Mall - Community Meeting

Core to the community-driven redesign of Buchanan Street Mall, the Memory Walk is envisioned to physically connect all five blocks of the park, showcase local art, and honor community history.

Thanks to grant funding from the Prop 68 Statewide Parks Progra...

Buchanan Mall stage preview and last call for the Phase 1 design refinement survey!

Design is progressing for the stage on the McAllister to Fulton block, thanks to the thoughtful input input provided by local performing art stakeholders, including the African American Art & Culture Complex, African-American Shakespeare Company, Afro...

Buchanan Street Mall Phase 1 – Community Meeting on 2/24/2022

COMING SOON: Renovations on Buchanan Street Mall

It’s time to CELEBRATE! For seven years, the Western Addition community has dreamed about what Buchanan Mall could become with the right vision and resources. Those dreams are coming true!...

Buchanan Mall, Turk – Golden Gate at SFAC Civic Design Review Monday 9/20

After almost seven years of community-driven engagement and visioning, SF Rec and Parks is thrilled to be moving forward with a clear schedule for detailed design and construction of the Turk – Golden Gate block of Buchanan Street Mall!

We have a...

Design continues and additional funding received for Buchanan Street Mall!

Thanks to the 174 people who participated in the survey to refine the design of Buchanan Street Mall, Turk – Golden Gate block. There are clear community preferences for a big kids play structure, belt swings, bench swings, stationary bikes, bal...

Complete the survey to refine the design of an all-ages play area in Buchanan Street Mall

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Virtual Community Meeting on Tuesday, January 19^th, and for your engagement and feedback to help refine the design. You can review the presentation slides here and meeting notes here.

 The Western Additio...

Virtual Meeting and Survey to Refine the Design for Buchanan Street Mall

The Western Addition community has been driving a new vision for Buchanan Mall since 2014. A Vision Plan was published in March 2017 and the conceptual design for all five blocks was approved in April 2020. With the passing of the Health and Recovery Bond...

BUCHANAN STREET MALL FINAL CONCEPTUAL DESIGN COMPLETE!

The Fillmore community has been reimagining Buchanan Street Mall since late 2014, to design a safer more inclusive neighborhood space. The Vision Plan, published in 2017, offered four goals to guide design priorities for the neighborhood: connecting all b...

BUCHANAN STREET MALL – COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ON NOV. 1st!

Please join us on Nov 1st as we begin to create the conceptual design for the entire five block length of Buchanan Mall. Together with our high caliber landscape design partnership of the Office of Cheryl Barton and Studio-MLA, we will begin a series of i...

DESIGNER SELECTED FOR BUCHANAN MALL

We are excited to have The Office of Cheryl Barton (O|CB) join us as designers for the conceptual design proposals for the entire 5 block length of Buchanan Mall. O|CB was selected by a joint committee of Rec & Park, the Trust for Public Land, and com...

BUCHANAN STREET MALL PROJECT UPDATE

In March 2017, Rec & Park’s partners, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) together with Citizen Film, completed an intensive community engagement process and published a Vision Statement for Buchanan Street Mall. Based on this vision, T...