Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Western Addition

Chevy: What Better Way to Explore the Divisadero “Microhood” Than by Car?

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 11, 2014 | 23 Comments

The marketers at Chevy totally have this urban millennial thing nailed down. The car manufacturer sponsored this promotional video for a Divisadero Microhood Art Walk held last week, along with the website The Bold Italic. In this virtual tour of the microhood, local business owner Erin Fong gets into one of Chevy’s electric Volts, driving an […]

City’s First “Play Streets” Event Kicks Off in the Western Addition

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 16, 2013 | 3 Comments

Two blocks in the Western Addition were closed to cars and turned into a neighborhood gathering space Saturday for the city’s first “Play Streets” event. The program is an effort to build on the success of Sunday Streets and provide smaller-scale car-free spaces where people can play and socialize on a more frequent basis. “This […]