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"content": "\u003cp>Portsmouth Square, a one-block plaza at the heart of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown, is \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1166/Portsmouth-Square\">slated to undergo a major facelift\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allison Cummings, senior registrar, San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection\"]‘We’re in a moment of work, doing deep work with the community to understand what they want and what makes sense for the park.’[/pullquote]The project is nearly a decade in the making. But before breaking ground, the city must decide what to do with nearly a dozen controversial public artworks, monuments and plaques currently at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconsidering, contextualizing or outright removing public artwork that can represent different things to different people is not a simple process. 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On any given day, it’s bustling with people headed to nearby transit lines, huddled playing cards and those looking for a reprieve from dense housing framing the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People fill Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the birthplace of San Francisco, and it’s the living room for Chinatown. Most of the people you see here live in Chinatown,” Chinatown expert and historian David Lei said. “Generations of Chinese have started out this way, as poor immigrants, and here, you can put a roof over you and your family’s head. The purpose is to allow people to have a chance.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Lei, Chinatown expert and historian\"]‘This is the birthplace of San Francisco, and it’s the living room for Chinatown. Most of the people you see here live in Chinatown.’[/pullquote]Reckonings over controversial public art and monuments took off across the Bay Area amid nationwide protests against police brutality in 2020 — after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The discussions led to the removal of statues like the one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/09/example-of-what-systematic-racism-is-controversial-san-jose-statue-will-officially-be-removed/\">Thomas Fallon, a former San José mayor\u003c/a>, who played a role in the U.S. annexation of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, activists toppled and vandalized multiple statues in 2020 that critics said celebrated racist and colonialist histories. That prompted the city to remove a 12-foot bronze statue of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">Christopher Columbus\u003c/a> the day before protestors had planned to pull it down. Mayor London Breed then directed the Arts Commission to review its public art collection and refine processes around monuments and memorials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco’s Art Commission updated its \u003ca href=\"https://sfartscommission.org/sites/default/files/documents/SF_MMAC_Final_Report_07_2023.pdf\">procedures for reviewing public artwork\u003c/a> that may uphold racist, colonialist or other harmful narratives. Also, in 2023, the city received a \u003ca href=\"https://sfartscommission.org/our-role-impact/press-room/press-release/mayor-london-breed-announces-san-francisco-arts-commission\">$3 million grant\u003c/a> to implement those new recommendations, starting with an equity audit of the current monuments and memorials in the city’s Civic Art Collection later this year and community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Representation as history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the Columbus statue now sits in storage and awaits its public review, three pieces at Portsmouth Square are in the very early stages of the updated review process. Those are the Goddess of Democracy monument, a monument to Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, and a zodiac sculpture on the children’s playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s arguably no artwork in Portsmouth Square that actually commemorates Asian American history,” said Hoi Leung, curator and deputy director of the Chinese Culture Center. She added that no current artwork at the park is by artists of Asian descent, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Birds fly above a pedestrian bridge connecting a Hilton to Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birds fly above a pedestrian bridge connecting a Hilton to Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last year, the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, the Chinatown Community Development Center, the Manilatown Heritage Foundation, and other community organizations, gathered residents and historians to discuss what type of art and interpretation they would like to see to increase public education and understanding about the park and its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Arts Commission, Planning Department and Recreation and Parks oversee different elements of the redesign. Their next community feedback meeting is on \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1698\">Jan. 30\u003c/a> at 808 Kearny St. in room 402.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hoi Leung, curator and deputy director, Chinese Culture Center\"]‘There’s arguably no artwork in Portsmouth Square that actually commemorates Asian American history.’[/pullquote]At the meetings, Leung said, community members shared that monuments in the park today do little to represent the historical or contemporary contributions and lived experiences of Chinese or Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Robert Louis Stevenson monument, for example, felt out of touch with some locals who attended one of the recent feedback meetings. The \u003cem>Treasure Island\u003c/em> author only briefly stayed in the city and had little to do with the Chinatown community directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of vocal opinions about how we have to remove the school monument because it’s racist, and Robert Louis Stevenson had nothing to do with Chinatown. A lot of those comments,” Leung told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stone monument honoring the state’s first public schoolhouse that opened at the site of the park in 1848 also exemplifies the frustration some park-goers have. That’s because the school did not allow students of Asian descent to enroll, and many Chinese immigrants in the neighborhood were excluded from any opportunities the school provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen community members said at a feedback session in October that they would like to see the schoolhouse monument removed because it upholds racist narratives by excluding information on how Chinese students were barred from attending the school. Some said they would rather see artwork depicting the story of segregated Chinese schools and more history of the Chinese Exclusion Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opinions differ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lei said he would “make a fuss” if the entire statue were removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Historian David Lei sits on a pedestrian bridge connecting a Hilton to Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-13-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historian David Lei sits on a pedestrian bridge connecting a Hilton to Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people say, ‘Well, there’s a whole history of [Chinese immigrants] not being able to go,’” Lei said. “They only hear part of it, but there is so much to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monument needs more historical context, he said, but removing the piece completely could also overlook some important history about the school, which was founded by William Leidesdorff — an affluent Black and Jewish man and one of the earliest founders of the city — who is also left off the plaque.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hoi Leung, curator and deputy director, Chinese Culture Center\"]‘This is a museum without walls. We hope that people who care about this come out and add to the pool of endless stories that this park can be a repository for.’[/pullquote]“This is such an important opportunity to actually empower the community’s voice. Whether it’s ‘remove’ or ‘not remove.’ The point is to give agency to the community to have a voice during that process,” said Jenny Leung, executive director of the Chinese Culture Center. “So often, it’s just about removing pieces or putting them right back where they were. But there are ways to make room for these stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoi Leung added that the feedback meetings are a chance for the community to finally weigh in on what art and interpretation at the park can look like moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a museum without walls,” she said. “We hope that people who care about this come out and add to the pool of endless stories that this park can be a repository for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art for future generations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pieces in Portsmouth Square won’t be the first civic artwork to undergo the city’s revamped review process. Recently, the Arts Commission approved the removal of the bust of former mayor James Phelan, who advocated for Chinese exclusion. The city plans to replace the piece with a similar bronze bust on a sandstone plinth of Ed Lee, the city’s first Asian American mayor, who died in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lei, the historian, said Portsmouth Square could integrate technology like QR codes to create more didactic educational experiences and go beyond a physical plaque’s limited word count. That, he said, could be used to tell stories about the historic buildings that flank Portsmouth Square, some of which were the site of former legal offices that handled cases that have shaped the American fabric, like \u003cem>Tape v. Hurley\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Historian David Lei points to a school house memorial plaque in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historian David Lei points to a school house memorial plaque in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years before the landmark ruling of\u003cem> Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em>, members of San Francisco’s Chinatown community fought for Mamie Tape, a Chinese American who was barred from attending a San Francisco public school because of her ethnic background. Her family successfully challenged the school’s decision and won in 1885.[aside label='More Stories on Chinatown' tag='chinatown']But new artwork for Portsmouth Square is not only about sharing new narratives; it’s about highlighting contemporary art and activism that’s exploding in the neighborhood today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was a center for activism at the height of anti-Asian attacks during the pandemic — and a center for healing across generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square’s redevelopment will also coincide with a full renovation of the adjacent brick-and-mortar space run by the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative, a multidisciplinary, multiracial art and cultural hub founded in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re thinking about what we want to leave for the next generation as well,” Hoi Leung said. “What’s critical about this moment is that there is a reckoning for needing to reexamine these monuments and commemoration — and Chinatown should fully participate in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is such an important opportunity to actually empower the community’s voice. Whether it’s ‘remove’ or ‘not remove.’ The point is to give agency to the community to have a voice during that process,” said Jenny Leung, executive director of the Chinese Culture Center. “So often, it’s just about removing pieces or putting them right back where they were. But there are ways to make room for these stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoi Leung added that the feedback meetings are a chance for the community to finally weigh in on what art and interpretation at the park can look like moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a museum without walls,” she said. “We hope that people who care about this come out and add to the pool of endless stories that this park can be a repository for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art for future generations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pieces in Portsmouth Square won’t be the first civic artwork to undergo the city’s revamped review process. Recently, the Arts Commission approved the removal of the bust of former mayor James Phelan, who advocated for Chinese exclusion. The city plans to replace the piece with a similar bronze bust on a sandstone plinth of Ed Lee, the city’s first Asian American mayor, who died in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lei, the historian, said Portsmouth Square could integrate technology like QR codes to create more didactic educational experiences and go beyond a physical plaque’s limited word count. That, he said, could be used to tell stories about the historic buildings that flank Portsmouth Square, some of which were the site of former legal offices that handled cases that have shaped the American fabric, like \u003cem>Tape v. Hurley\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Historian David Lei points to a school house memorial plaque in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historian David Lei points to a school house memorial plaque in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years before the landmark ruling of\u003cem> Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em>, members of San Francisco’s Chinatown community fought for Mamie Tape, a Chinese American who was barred from attending a San Francisco public school because of her ethnic background. Her family successfully challenged the school’s decision and won in 1885.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Plans years in the making to renovate a park and community square in San Francisco’s Chinatown appear to have again stalled, concerning neighborhood advocates for the redesign who say that it may now never be funded after the project was dropped from a multimillion-dollar city bond package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent saga over redesigning the historic Portsmouth Square involves an apparent holdup between city departments and private ownership of a pedestrian bridge over the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the supervisor who represents the district has raised more startling concerns, calling for the city attorney to investigate in light of public corruption charges leveled against former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I smell a rat,” District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said. “For almost two years, Mohammed refused to move on it, and then of course in January of this year, he was arrested by the FBI ... And now mysteriously the park is not being included in the current bond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as federal officials announced this week that restaurateur Nick Bovis, an alleged co-conspirator with Nuru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818263/owner-of-lefty-odouls-restaurant-to-plead-guilty-to-fraud-counts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony charges and agreed to cooperate with an ongoing federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Struggle to Renovate Portsmouth Square\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During a Tuesday meeting before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor London Breed presented a plan that had been months in the making: the multimillion-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://onesanfrancisco.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Agenda%20Item%205%20-%20November%202020%20Health%20and%20Recovery%20Bond%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Health and Recovery bond\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money was originally slated to be a parks bond, totaling $255 million. But in November 2019, Breed asked the city's Capital Planning Committee to explore replacing it with a “mental health bond.” If the new proposal is passed by the voters later this year, this bond would provide funding for housing and homelessness, infrastructure improvements and projects to improve open-air spaces and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one item that was absent from the bond for stakeholders and residents of Chinatown: Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the current city budget situation, we don’t know when the city will put another bond package together,” said Erika Gee with the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the city’s finances, it’s really important that this park is included in the bond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-800x583.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/portsmouth-2_1920x-1020x743.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown residents look over plans for the square renovations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chinatown’s 'Living Room'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portsmouth Square sits at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, on the eastern edge of Chinatown. It's home to several \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/893/Portsmouth-Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable moments in San Francisco history\u003c/a> — including the first raising of the American flag in the city in 1846. For decades, the park has served as an essential meeting place for the community and has been referred to as Chinatown’s “living room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when plans began to coalesce around redesigning the park in 2017, the community had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were over five community design workshops, which is extraordinarily high in the park world,” said attorney Allan Low, who serves as vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission. “Over 100 people attended, which shows high community engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After numerous neighborhood meetings, a design plan was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks, which then made it one of the department’s “core projects,” according to Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, so good, Low said: The community had decided on a design, the Parks Department approved it and things were moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the project hit a snag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43209_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-e1589588548641.jpg\" alt=\"Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Works officials said 'discretionary actions' — in this case keeping or revoking the adjacent Hilton Hotel's permit for its pedestrian footbridge — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Bridge Too Far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The preferred design from the community required the removal of a pedestrian walkway over part of Portsmouth Square. The bridge extends across Kearny Street, connecting the park with the Chinese Cultural Center and the towering Financial District Hilton hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, the city Department of Public Works issued an encroachment permit to a company called Justice Investors, one of the companies that owns and manages the Hilton. This permit granted it “air rights” to the bridge, allowing the company to build and manage the walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2018, dozens of District 3 residents signed a petition to revoke the permit and submitted it to Public Works — and then-Director Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allan Low, vice president of the Recreation and Park Commission\"]'The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works.'[/pullquote]“The matter was fully heard, briefed, argued. Public testimony opened, public testimony closed, in October 2018,” Low said. “To date, there has been no decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works officials said “discretionary actions” — in this case keeping or revoking the permit — require an environmental analysis before they can move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Low said that explanation doesn’t make sense and questions why an environment review wasn’t started until a full year after the October 2018 hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dates don’t line up to the justification given by the Department of Public Works,” Low said. “If it is true that the decision wasn’t issued because of environmental review, they should have said so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There currently is an analysis underway as part of a larger environmental impact review of the site. City officials expect the review to be completed in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sarah Madland, director of policy and public affairs for the Recreation and Parks Department, said it’s impossible to know if revoking the bridge permit would have made the project move forward sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madland said that the timeline for Portsmouth Square, including a complex environmental review involving property not maintained by the city, is not atypical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what happened with the permit in the past, the project is on track and all stakeholders are on board, Madland said. That includes Hilton, which Madland said has committed to the project through multiple conversations, and the hotel’s support is documented in the environmental review submission from late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he raised concerns with the city attorney’s office about Nuru’s involvement in the Portsmouth Square project shortly after the former Public Works director’s arrest. The city attorney’s office did not confirm if an investigation involving the park project is taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru was arrested by the FBI in late January under suspicion of fraud, including allegations that he and restaurant owner Nick Bovis attempted to bribe a San Francisco International Airport official. Since then, numerous reports have detailed the allegations against Nuru, including that he and Bovis used a series of charities to funnel funds to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/lefty-odouls-charity-used-city-contractor-donations-to-pay-for-public-works-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly finance\u003c/a> Public Works parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office currently has an investigation open into public corruption at City Hall and has issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2020/02/27/city-attorney-issues-14-more-subpoenas-in-widening-public-corruption-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple subpoenas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru's defense attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July, 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43202_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_PortsmouthSquare_05142020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A design plan for the renovation of Portsmouth Square was selected in July 2018 and brought to the San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks - but little tangible progress has been made since then. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What's Next for Portsmouth Square?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After years of planning, an ongoing environmental review slated to end in 2021 and nearly $2 million racked up in consulting fees so far, according to both Peskin and Low, the future of Portsmouth Square feels murky — especially since the project has been left out of the 2020 bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor's office said that the Board of Supervisors could theoretically add the Portsmouth Square project to the bond by either adding more money to the total bond package or changing the existing fund allocations to make space for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Portsmouth Square is essential to the quality of life for residents and visitors alike,” Peskin said. “And I am deeply committed to ensuring that the necessary funds for its redesign to bring it into the 21st century will be included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said on Friday that negotiations have begun to add the project to the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 14, the Hilton's owners still hold the permit to the bridge and there has been no ruling made by the Department of Public Works to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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