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BloomsSaloon

1318 18th Street between Missouri and Texas streets

BottomoftheHill

1233 17th Street between Texas and Missouri streets, www. Bottomofthehill.com

CaféCocomo

650 Indiana Street between 18th and 19th streets, www.Cafecocomo. com

DogpatchSaloon

2496 Third Street between 20th and 22nd streets

ConnecticutYankee 100 Connecticut Street between 17th and Mariposa streets, www. Theyankee.com

Kelly’sMissionRockCafe 817 Terry Francois Boulevard, www.kellysmissionrock.com

IlPirata 2007 16th Street between Potrero Avenue and Utah Street, www. Ilpiratasf.com

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855 Terry Francois Street between Illinois and Mariposa streets, www.Ramprestaurant.com

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YieldWineBar 2490 Third Street between 20th and 22nd streets, www.Yieldsf. com

HealthCenter

ContinuedfromPage10 wheelchair accessibility. Three offices, a conference/meeting room and two examination rooms will be added, paid for by municipal capital improvement funds, at a cost of roughly $1 million. The remodel is set to begin this month, and will be completed within 250 days, weather permitting, by local contractor CLW Builders, who are also constructing the new Potrero Hill branch library.

Now part of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the clinic serves a diverse clientele, from families to individuals, offering primary and dental care, acupuncture, chiropractic, yoga classes and organic produce from its community garden. Last year the clinic saw 2,800 patients, logging 11,000 visits. Over the past three decades the area’s demographics have changed dramatically, and with it the clinic’s patrons. The clinic today serves clients from throughout Potrero Hill and the Mission, with staffers who speak Spanish, Tagalog and Cantonese.

“We used to see a lot more families and kids,” said Magnuson, “but now, due to welfare reform and rising costs of housing, many families were driven away.” She estimated that about 30 percent of her clients are AfricanAmerican, 30 percent Latino, and the remainder a mix of Samoan, Filipino, Cantonese, Caucasian and other ethnicities. Magnuson manages a lean staff of nurses, doctors, counselors, medical evaluation assistants, clerks and lab technicians. The clinic increasingly focuses on a growing number of diabetics, as well as patients with multiple medical diagnoses of physical, psychiatric and substance abuse problems and opiatebased addictions. It accepts coverage provided by Medi-Cal, Medicare, and the Healthy San Francisco and Healthy Workers programs, charging sliding scale fees.

The clinic is located at 1050 Wisconsin Street. Call 648.3022 or 920.1250 for more information.

Development

ContinuedfromPage17 later the Bluepeter exhibit design company.

A $200 million, 265,000 square foot San Francisco Police Department headquarters and re station is being considered for the southwest corner of Third and Mission Rock. And a 500-student, $30 million public school is being proposed for “Block 14,” south of Mission Creek and just east of 7th Street. UCSF favors a kindergarten through junior high school, to enable students to take full advantage of the science expertise around them. But the San Francisco Uni ed School District is concerned that a kindergarten through eighth grade campus would require a school gym, which likely can’t be accommodated within the 2.2 acres available, and has expressed a preference for an elementary school.

Green Space Being Identified in ShowplaceSquare

Showplace Square is a collection of interior design galleries located between Brannan, 16th, Division, and 7th streets. Last month roughly 50 participants gathered to continue a year-long open space planning process for the area. “At the last meeting we realized at some point we have to work with the sites we have, to be prepared, the eight sites people are voting on,” said Steve Wertheim, the City planner assigned to the project. “But, we recognize we would love to look at more areas under the spaghetti of freeways, lots of juicy areas to make pedestrian and bike friendly with green amenities. We’re not entertaining these ideas this time around.”

“People are saying that if there’s opportunity for open space just outside the boundary [of Showplace Square], we should look at that as well,” said Corinne Woods, who is vice chair of the Central Waterfront Advisory Group. “You want a lively environment,” said Wertheim. “Lots of empty plazas are poorly designed, wind swept plazas. [Activating] is more fun than to be alone with the howling wind.”

Citizens can vote to prioritize the eight proposed greening sites at the Planning Department’s Showplace Square Open Space website through January 15, www.sfgov.org/site/ planning_index.asp?id=114297. The past year’s brainstorming, debating and consensus-reaching will culminate on January 28, when planners will make an informational presentation to the San Francisco Planning Commission. “We don’t need the Commission’s vote,” explained Wertheim. “We want to share with the Commission and the public more broadly, and hear from commissioners. It’s a nice way to share more widely what the results of the whole process have been.”

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A Cornell University study suggests that roughly half of all U.S. children – 90 percent of African-American children, and those who grow up in single-parent households – depend on food stamps at some point before they turn 20 years old. A separate analysis, from the University of Arizona, Tucson, indicates that almost half the food produced in the country goes to waste. Apparently upper-income parents no longer need to threaten to send their children’s half-eaten supper to Africa; they can just drive a few blocks to a lowincome neighborhood to drop it off. We’re in a curious food era, with a few of us dining on hand-slaughtered lamb raised organically in Whole Food’s produce section, while the rest scramble to buy generic powdered milk from the dented can store. Perhaps urban gardens are the answer...

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