Chinatown Broadway Street Design Final Open House

From sf-planning.org:

The San Francisco Planning Department and Chinatown Community Development Center invite you to the final open house for the CHINATOWN BROADWAY STREET DESIGN PROJECT

Please join us for the final public open house for the Chinatown Broadway Street Design Project.

The open house will celebrate all the work that has taken place to develop a new street design for Broadway from Columbus Avenue to the Broadway Tunnel.

A short presentation will be followed by an open house. Please stop by to review the final design. We appreciate your feedback and participation.

Light refreshments and Cantonese translation will be provided.

Click here to download the meeting flyer: English | Chinese

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