Take the Shop & Dine in the 49 Challenge This Holiday Season

Take the Shop & Dine in the 49 Challenge This Holiday Season

For residents and visitors You can participate in the challenge by tagging a picture/selfie of you, your friends or family shopping at your favorite local business on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook with #shopdine49 by Friday, December 12. The winning submission will be selected to shop with the Mayor at a local business. Businesses You can put…

Civic Center Sustainable Utility District Plan Workshop #2

Civic Center Sustainable Utility District Plan Workshop #2

This is the second of three planned public workshops. The project team will present concepts in the Draft Civic Center Sustainable Utility District Plan. Input from workshop attendees will help guide the finalization of the District Plan. When: Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Where: Atrium Conference Room (2nd Floor), 1 South Van…

Civic Center Playgrounds – Follow Up Meeting

Civic Center Playgrounds – Follow Up Meeting

Please join The Recreation and Parks Department and the Trust for Public Land for the third community meeting to discuss the renovation of the Civic Center Playgrounds. Meeting is open to everyone so please pass this along to anyone that may be interested. WHEN: December 11, 5:30-7:30pm WHERE: Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room. San Francisco Library, Main Branch…

Call for Artists – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Request for Qualifications

Call for Artists – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Request for Qualifications

The San Francisco Arts Commission is seeking applications to create a permanent public artwork for the western facing façades of San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Polk and Hayes streets. Our objective is to commission an artwork that will activate and enliven the façade of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, turning it into a…

Take the Muni Train Survey

Take the Muni Train Survey

Take this once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide input on interior features like seating preferences, interior color schemes and layout, to guide our design decisions. Make your Muni experience more comfortable by providing your input on these design treatments. Modernizing our fleet will mean a cleaner, quieter, more comfortable ride, and less vehicle downtime for repairs. The…

Arts Town Hall to Host Forum for City Supervisor Candidates

Arts Town Hall to Host Forum for City Supervisor Candidates

Join us for Arts Town Hall San Francisco 2014 on October 20 from 6 – 8 pm.  This is a unique opportunity for the arts community to engage with candidates for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on issues important to us—support for the arts and artists as well as the city’s strategies for partnering…

San Francisco Community Members – Market Street Needs You!

San Francisco Community Members – Market Street Needs You!

For over 150 years, Market Street has been the internationally-renowned main artery of San Francisco. However, a street as wide and busy as Market Street can often disconnect neighboring communities and residents. District representatives for the Civic Center of Market Street are hosting a Market Street Community Conversation, where you’ll have the opportunity to express…

Upcoming Events for the Civic Center Cultural Landscape Inventory

Upcoming Events for the Civic Center Cultural Landscape Inventory

This fall, the San Francisco Planning Department will introduce the Civic Center Cultural Landscape Inventory (CLI) to the Historic Preservation Commission – a document that studied the historic landscape of the Civic Center Historic District. Join us for a community workshop at the San Francisco Public Library and learn about the findings of the inventory…

Civic Center CBD Working with SFMTA to Improve Parking Options

Civic Center CBD Working with SFMTA to Improve Parking Options

In an attempt to create a critical mass of patrons using Civic Center as their preferred garage, SFMTA and its parking garage partner at Performing Arts & Civic Center Garages, Pacific Parking, are conducting an experiment with adjusting parking fees at the two garages on seven (7) nights in September and October 2014. These nights were…

CBD and Service Providers Working with City During Drought

CBD and Service Providers Working with City During Drought

During our serious drought, the Civic Center CBD has been working with our service provider, MJM Services, to ensure that we maintain cleanliness while also adhering to City and State guidelines. MJM Statement on Sidewalk Washing: We have been working on this with all City and County of San Francisco departments. Here is where we…

Civic Center CBD Publishes 2014 Annual Report

Civic Center CBD Publishes 2014 Annual Report

The Civic Center Community Benefit District (CBD) started its third year of operations with a goal to build on our strengths from the first two years, improve and evaluate existing programs, and embark in new areas set out in the management plan. This report summarizes those activities. Download a copy. The CCCBD creates and manages Programs…

Civic Center to Host Annual Meeting and 'Civic Star Awards' Ceremony

Civic Center to Host Annual Meeting and 'Civic Star Awards' Ceremony

The Civic Center CBD will be hosting its 2014 Annual Meeting on June 26, 2014, starting at 4:00 pm. It will be held in the main area of Market Square, 1355 Market Street. As a new addition, the CBD will be including the inaugural “Civic Star Awards.” Civic Star Award recipients are distinguished members in…

Market Street Prototyping Festival Kick-Off June 17

Market Street Prototyping Festival Kick-Off June 17

As part of a larger plan to redesign San Francisco’s main street, the city’s planning department has partnered with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to produce the Market Street Prototyping Festival, seeking ideas to help reshape 36 blocks of the city’s central corridor. Ideas…