Powell Street Promenade Tour
From SPUR:
9:15 PM PDT on July 17, 2011
From SPUR:
The city’s latest Pavement to Parks project runs for two blocks on Powell Street alongside the famed cable car line and was created in partnership with the Union Square Business Improvement District (BID) and Audi of America. Join Donna Ficarrotta of the Union Square BID, Andres Power of the Planning Department and the promenade designer for a tour of this new and innovative public space in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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