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Mark your calendars: Virtual happenings & Neighborhood street openings

VIRTUAL HAPPENINGS Healthy LivingSaturday, September 26th  |  Livable City Facebook page @ 11 AM | Set reminder Healthy Living is our virtual wellness series on Saturdays.Open to all levels and it does not require any equipment, except making time to take care of yourself!Let’s take care of ourselves, and stay healthy. (Available in English, and Spanish) ️ We…

The Best Parts of San Francisco: Excelsior District

The Excelsior District is known for its authentic ethnic restaurants. It has the most service industry businesses in San Francisco, such as beauty salons and barbershops. Most of the companies are Latinx and Asian owned by locals.

Ten-minute neighborhoods, 30-minute cities, Covid-19, and the future of public transit

Livable cities are made up of ten-minute neighborhoods, where residents can access many of the needs of daily life within a short walk or cycle trip home – diverse housing, a grocery store, places to eat and drink, shops and services, quality transit, parks and playgrounds, libraries and recreation centers, schools and clinics. Not all…

Mark your calendars: Neighborhood street openings & Virtual happenings

#ThursdayThoughtsThursday, September 17th  |  12 PM (PDT)Join via: LivableCity Facebook page  Join via: Zoom Webinar ID: 860 6665 1661 / Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 Mark your calendars for our weekly series #ThursdayThoughts: a lunchtime chat with local guests every week. We’ll be joined by Toby Leavitt and Rebecca J. Ennals of the SF Shakespeare Festival to talk about Shakespeare in the Park. #FeatureFridayFriday, September 18th  |  12…

Sunday Streets SoMa Pop-Up has been moved to October 4th, 2020.

Sunday Streets Family; The start for Sunday Streets SoMa Pop-Up has been moved to October 4th, 2020. We made this decision in the face of the heartbreaking reality that the unprecedented wildfires, caused by climate change and unsustainable land use and management practices, will likely cause the air quality to be very unhealthy well into…

Weekly Open Street Schedule & Updates

Neighborhood HappeningsSessions will be cancelled if air quality reaches or exceeds Orange or an AQI above 101. Tenderloin: PlayStreets TenderloinIn the news: SF Examiner  |  SF ChronicleEnjoy a safe and open space to play, stretch the legs, and have some fun at Play Streets this Saturday! See you at the 200 block of Turk (between Jones/ Leavenworth)…

Join The Kickoff 9/6! — Weekly Sunday Streets Pop-Up In SoMa Kicks Off To Support Residents and Small Business

August 24th, 2020 | PRESS RELEASE San Francisco — The nonprofit Livable City, will be transforming Folsom Street between 6th and 8th Streets into a temporary car-free open space for residents and businesses to use on a weekly basis from 11:00am – 4:00pm through the City’s Shared Spaces program starting August 30th through October 18th,…

Helping San Francisco’s Chinatown Pivot To Success

Chinatown is notably one of San Francisco’s most densely populated neighborhoods, full of rich history, art, and locally owned businesses. On any given day, people travel from far and wide to the intersection of Bush Street and Grant Avenue and enter the Dragon’s Gate, a San Francisco landmark, and one of the most photographed gateways…

The Spirit of Sunday Streets Lives On

We have some bittersweet news to share from the Sunday Streets program. The sad newsBased on current health directives and capacity constraints across the board with city, private, and nonprofit partners, Livable City is cancelling all previously planned Sunday Streets events for the 2020 calendar year. The good newsWe are directing remaining resources to create…

This week’s events

Here are our virtual happenings this week, in addition to Walkway Weekends on Grant Ave. in Chinatown. Our weekly lunchtime Facebook-Live features this week include Zoom info when available, for those outside of Facebook. If you are on social media, our channels are updated weekly, so feel free to share in the platform of your choice…

Get in Touch

Staff Directory

Darin Ow-Wing, Executive Director
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Jessica Tovar, Program Director
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Sally Chen, Deputy Director
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Tom Radulovich, Senior Policy Fellow
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Isaac Santiago, Sunday Streets Program Manager [email protected]

Reina Terry, Program & Development Associate, reina@livablecity.org