500 miles of walking and cycling paths encircle the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting communities and providing a great alternative commute corridor. These paths are known as the Bay Trail and this year we celebrate the Trail’s 30th anniversary! To celebrate this milestone, The East Cut Community Benefit District with…
The East Cut CBD is seeking exceptional candidates for a Deputy Director position. If you are interested in applying or know anyone whom you think will be a good fit for the role, please email your resume to info@theeastcut.org. Join us in our mission to advance the quality of life…
As we transition into the new year, The East Community Benefit District would like to introduce you to one of its main supporters in the neighborhood: Jamel Bouzidi, owner of Fayala –mediterranean restaurant and catering group– on Howard St. between Beale and Folsom Streets. Since June 2018, Jamel has been offering free…
To date -in 2018- The East Cut Services Team recorded 433 iterations of auto-glass cleanup in the neighborhood, that is a net decrease from the 1,079 recorded last year within the same time frame. The East Cut Community Benefit District’s Safety Patrol and Ambassadors used previous years’ data to adapt and improve daily crime deterrence and best address the neighborhood’s needs for crime deterrence around the clock…
On Thursday, December 7th, SFMTA’s Kathleen Phu and Ronnique Bishop presented to Natalie Gubb Commons residents the reintroduction of the 12-bus line connecting Mission, South of Market, Chinatown, and East Cut neighborhoods. The bus line will continue to serve the same areas it did before its closure in 2009…
Whether it is for its car-traffic capacity or for the artistic value it brings to the views in the district, The Bay Bridge is an important part of The East Cut’s identity and could soon further transform the neighborhood’s rich transit-scene by allowing bicyclists to commute to and from Oakland, through Yerba Buena Island.
On October 16, the district was celebrating the Grand Opening of Natalie Gubb Commons – Mercy Housing California and Golub Companies’ newest 100% affordable housing development – and its 190 new affordable family units.
With the reappearance of scooters in San Francisco on Monday, October 15th, city agencies, scooter companies, and riders have a second chance at making things right. You may remember that the important influx of scooters earlier this year – a rather new way of getting around at the time – created a little bit of a capharnaum on San Francisco’s sidewalks.
The news of compromised structural supports and the closing of Salesforce Transit Center was a blow to the neighborhood, city and the region. Luckily, transit operations were able to quickly move back to the still-available Temporary Terminal Site. On October 2, 2018, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA)-in charge of the Transit center-held a special Board of Directors meeting where the following points were addressed:
On Thursday, August 29, about thirty urban design and architecture enthusiasts attended the SPUR walking tour of The East Cut. San Francisco Planning Department’s Joshua Switzky presented the ideas behind the Transit Center District Plan and Transbay Redevelopment Plan that created the opportunity to create San Francisco’s first high-density, transit-rich district.
The Temporary Transbay Terminal opened in August 2010 and is located on the block bounded by Folsom, Howard, Beale and Main Streets in San Francisco. Located just one block southeast of the newly opened Salesforce Transit Center at 425 Mission Street, the Temporary Terminal has served AC Transit, WestCAT Lynx, Muni, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans, […]
Salesforce Transit Center opened last Saturday, August 11, and since then the public transportation hub has already welcomed tens of thousands of visitors and transit users. The East Cut Community Benefit District and the stakeholders responsible for ensuring that the public enjoys a clean, safe, and pleasant infrastructure, are working closely together on coordinating their […]
On Tuesday, July 10th, The East Cut Community Benefit District had the opportunity to present and discuss its mission in the neighborhood with a Chinese delegation visiting and studying in the Bay Area. As part of their summer training on Sustainable Cities at Stanford University, the group of Chinese municipal and provincial officials was introduced […]
Artist fnnch and The East Cut Community Benefit District collaborated on June 22nd for Solstice, The East Cut Fridays Pop-Up Art Show to activate a vacant storefront and raise funds for The East Cut’s Downtown Streets Team. Together, our neighbors and the larger San Francisco community raised more than $2,000 to rebuild the lives of unsheltered San Franciscans […]
Over 100 residents of The East Cut Community Benefit District and District 6 participated in The East Cut’s first-ever Pop-Up Supervisorial Forum at 101 2nd Street. The candidate forum included Matt Haney, Christine Johnson, and Sonja Trauss, and was moderated by KQED’s Scott Shafer. Inside 101 2nd Street’s greenhouse atrium, the candidates fielded questions regarding […]
