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Published: May, 2004 On Friday, April 2, 2004, the Port closed escrow with San Francisco Waterfront Partners, LLC, the private developer of the Piers 1½-3-5 Historic Rehabilitation Project, located on The Embarcadero between Washington Street and Broadway. Construction will commence next week and is expected to last for approximately twenty-two months. The contractor is S.J. […]
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: May, 2004 Is it possible to reinvent one’s self? It is for Tom Cole, the new General Manager of the Alta Mira Hotel of Sausalito. When Tom turned 40 he left a 20-year corporate management career by answering an ad to become the manager of a small boutique bed and breakfast […]
Published: May, 2004 Saturday, May 22, 2004, KFOG radio station is again presenting “Kaboom.” The day includes music and food on Piers 32-34 as well as evening fireworks. It’s better than July 4th with simulcast music and usually little to none of the chilly white kind of fog. Piers 32-34 will be loaded with white […]
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: May, 2004 Randy Repass, who started and remains a guiding and driving force in West Marine, placed an ad in the electronic sailing magazine Scuttlebutt and with the popular San Francisco sailing magazine Latitude 38. West Marine has become the largest boating supply retail chain in the country. It started with […]
By Guy Span Published: May, 2004 Last September, Bay Crossings did an analysis of how loud was the “swift, virtually noiseless and vibration-free electric train” (as BART was billed when built). At that time, we analyzed wheel/gauge profiles, rail grinding, and other causes of wheel–rail noise propagation. And while our engineers still believe that BART […]
By Guy Span Published: May, 2004 We all know that BART and SamTrans have had a little tiff over the high cost of the airport extension. SamTrans agreed to pay the extra costs because it was never in BART, that is, on a tax contributing basis. And at the time it seemed a fair treatment. […]
Published: May, 2004 You don’t have to travel halfway around the world, to experience the wonders of Africa. Safari West is teeming with diverse African wildlife at 3115 Porter Creek Road in Santa Rosa. There are giraffe, cheetah, lemurs, nyala, watusi, zebra, plus other African mammals and birds all in your own backyard of Santa […]
Published: May, 2004 Some Greek philosopher must have said that, “for every blessing, there is a price to pay.” Certainly, with sunshine, come droughts … with rains come floods. And probably such a philosopher would have added, that “the greater the blessing, the greater the price to be paid.” We talked with John Marks, the […]
Published: May, 2004 Tinkering! A Summer Devoted to Tinkering July and August, 2004 This summer, the Exploratorium presents Tinkering!, an exhibition and multifaceted series of special events that invites tinkerers and would-be tinkerers and all those inadvertent thumb smashers out there to converge on the Exploratorium and try their hand at what they should never […]
Published: May, 2004 Knigge has held a variety of positions in the hotel industry in San Francisco, most recently at the Palace Hotel as Director of Sales & Marketing, and in the same capacity previously at the Pan Pacific and Sir Francis Drake hotels. Prior to these positions, he worked as Regional Sales Manager for […]