Archive | February, 2013

26 February 2013 ~ 3 Comments

North Beach update: Board of Supervisors unanimously supports key Pagoda Palace plan item

Today at City Hall the Board of Supervisors voted on a key component of the plan to relocate the retrieval site for the Central Subway’s tunneling machines. (Photo courtesy Flickr user Alaskan Dude.) Today the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support a key component of the plan to relocate the retrieval site for the […]

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25 February 2013 ~ 1 Comment

North Beach update: Land Use Committee recommends approval of key component of TBM retrieval relocation plan

The Central Subway tunnels would end here, at the Pagoda Palace in North Beach, under a plan to relocate the retrieval site for the project’s tunnel boring machines. Today the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee voted 3-0 to recommend approval of a Special Use District (SUD) for the Pagoda Palace (1731-1741 Powell Street). The […]

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19 February 2013 ~ 0 Comments

North Beach update: SFMTA Board approves Pagoda lease, construction costs

Inside the Pagoda Palace, a former theater that will be demolished under a plan to relocate the retrieval site for the machines that will build the Central Subway tunnels. Today the SFMTA Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve key components of the plan to relocate the retrieval site of the Central Subway’s tunnel boring […]

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15 February 2013 ~ 4 Comments

North Beach update: Planning Commission votes to move TBM retrieval site relocation forward

The Pagoda Palace in North Beach, long considered an eyesore, will be demolished under a plan to relocate the retrieval site for the Central Subway’s tunnel boring machines. For the past two months, SFMTA staff and multiple city agencies have been working to allow the relocation of the retrieval site of the Central Subway’s tunnel […]

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