Comments on: Update: Designs of the New Development at 17th and Mission

By: newshound

newshound — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:14:00 +0000

It does not need to be traditional, but seven stories seem a bit much.

By: nn

nn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:34:30 +0000

Why are people in SF so flipping conservative about contemporary architecture?

Stanley Saitowitz Natoma have a number of interesting built projects- check out 1234 Howard Street before you blast.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:43:12 +0000

Mazzy – interesting you should note the new synagogue in the Richmond because it’s by the same architect, and faced many of the same complaints. (It also looked all bright & shiny like this in the renderings but turned out somewhat less so.)

By: Isore

Isore — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:56:28 +0000

Concerned Guajolote-

True, true…Chale, I don’t buy the Chinese crap ANYWHERE I go if at all possible. There are actually quite a few Malay and Eastern EU items there as well. If it’s going in my familias body, I am quite careful.

By: Mazzy

Mazzy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:55:52 +0000

Hey Mike

This is not about White people or latin people or black people. Neighborhoods evolve.The Mission has a mix for the first time ever. I grew up here when the Mission was an Irish neighborhood. Way back the Fillmore was Jewish, the Marina was retired old widows, the Embarcadero was longshormen, Potrero Hill was Russian. Things change.

By: Mazzy

Mazzy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:52:04 +0000

I LOVE this. I am a San Francisco native and am so tired of faux victorians and edwardians. This is the 21st century and think there are places in an urban environment to shake things up. I Love that Museum in the Bowery as well as the Modern Synagogue out in the Richmond District.

Sure beats cookie cutter slap lofts or that ugly new condo building over the new grocery store on Mission at 18th. Yes it’s great to have a store but the design is horrible.

By: Concerned Guajolote

Concerned Guajolote — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:45:15 +0000

Isore–

Buena idea pochazote, a mi vieja le encanta ese lugar pero siempre que compramos popotes o lo que sea quedo con la duda de que pudieran estar hechos con plastico chino lleno de plomo y quien sabe que mas — mejor que respetemos las costumbres latinas y que los duenos del terreno hagan lo que se les hinche el huevo.

By: sometimesy

sometimesy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:56:42 +0000

There is no way that this specific building will ever be built. So stop your whining.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:36:54 +0000

ah! hate it!

By: Isore

Isore — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:52:38 +0000

That design is mad ghastly. The Dollar Store, while the very business model is always living on borrowed time, has some interesting oddities, worth actually venturing inside, gabachos.

By: GD

GD — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:51:50 +0000

The building doesn’t look like it’s made to hold families. Don’t we have enough empty yuppie cubes in SF already? Do we need more?

By: Aurah

Aurah — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:47:52 +0000

This building doesn’t respond to the site at all, a requirement of good architecture in my opinion. I love new development on Mission St. but not if you pluck a building out of any city and from any street and dump it into the center of neighborhood with a distinct character. It shows no respect for the existing environment that, whatever the crime and filth on the street, has history, culture, and spirit.

Honor the Mission. Don’t dismiss it by imposing this soul-less glass box.

By: Corinna

Corinna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:21:43 +0000

Are you seriously trying to say that building will look better? Get over YOURself, Drew.

By: aQuariux

aQuariux — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:53:40 +0000

I’m not for preserving the dollar store, but there’s got to be a happy medium between an old run-down one level building and an overdesigned mini-skyscraper. Seriously, it’s way too big for that lot, and does it really need to be that tall??? I have lived across the street for nearly 20 years, and this will do nothing to improve the neighborhood, which i’ll admit needs to be improved, but not with this. This building will only end up a sad and not very thought out eyesore. I’ll take the dollar store anyday!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:14:49 +0000

I am opposed to this building because it is simply yet another step toward making the Mission unaffordable. White “people” will be the only people “living” there. Actually I guess they’ll be consuming there. Mission Street will become white and safe and boring, just like Valencia Street. If the people who opposed AA don’t oppose this, they are hypocrites. The point is to keep the neighborhood affordable and diverse.