May 2, 2022
‘I’m in love with this place’
San Francisco’s biggest public park in nearly 40 years opens on Russian Hill
March 24, 2022
StormTech storage chambers sustain San Francisco park
The Francisco Street Reservoir now serves as a source of useful non-potable water at a park for the local community, thanks to a stormwater collection system underneath.
Nov. 26, 2021
Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill set to reopen as public park in early 2022
Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill has been unused and unloved for 80 years, but it took the threat of development for neighborhood residents to do something about it.
November 7, 2018
Local park boosters eye the finish line
Decades in the making, the effort to turn Francisco Reservoir into a public park is tantalizingly close to success.
The article describes our grassroots park project and features quotes from many of our founding supporters including Former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell, SF Recreation & Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg, Launce Gamble, Bruce Keene, and Helen Hilton Raiser. We are especially grateful to Francisco Park Leadership Donors Lyna Lam and Chris Larsen who have stepped up in so many ways for us and were photographed and quoted in the article. We are thrilled for the extra visibility the Nob Hill Gazette article brings to Francisco Park during the last weeks of our 2018 Matching Gift Challenge.
