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Buena Vista Park

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Buena Vista Park (park, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 2 capital projects, 5 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Buena Vista Park's civic record is a century of Recreation and Park funding and upkeep. A 1912 Board of Park Commissioners annual report requests $25,000 to construct the park's grounds after grading left them well above the sidewalk, and values the 36-acre park at $88,250. A 1975 Open Space fund report allocates $27,000 for children's play apparatus and $100,000 for Phase II rehabilitation and landscaping. A Recreation and Park capital plan carries a Buena Vista Park master-plan project and recounts the park's 1894 establishment, 1930s WPA rock walls, and a 1989 erosion-control plan. Operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line totals about $250M; voter park-bond programs also list Buena Vista Park projects. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.

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Grounded summary

Buena Vista Park's civic record is a century of Recreation and Park funding and upkeep. A 1912 Board of Park Commissioners annual report requests $25,000 to construct the park's grounds after grading left them well above the sidewalk, and values the 36-acre park at $88,250. A 1975 Open Space fund report allocates $27,000 for children's play apparatus and $100,000 for Phase II rehabilitation and landscaping. A Recreation and Park capital plan carries a Buena Vista Park master-plan project and recounts the park's 1894 establishment, 1930s WPA rock walls, and a 1989 erosion-control plan. Operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line totals about $250M; voter park-bond programs also list Buena Vista Park projects.

Built from: 5 archive documents, city budget data — no outside knowledge added.

Buena Vista Ave East & Waller St · City-owned · 400 sq ft · parcel 2601001 · District 8 · City Facilities registry

What public money did here

No city spending is recorded against this place by name. Voter-approved bond work is named here, but San Francisco reports those dollars by bond programme, never per site, so there is no amount to attribute to this place.

Run by the Recreation & Parks, whose whole-department budget is $250.4M across 2,161 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.

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See also

Other places run by the Recreation and Park Department, and the department's contracts.

Golden Gate ParkPark, also run by the Recreation and Park Department$25.5MCrane Cove ParkPark, also run by the Recreation and Park Department$19.5MJapantown Peace PlazaPark, also run by the Recreation and Park Department$16.0MPortsmouth SquarePlaza, also run by the Recreation and Park Department$6.7MRecreation and Park Department: every active contractWhat the department buys, and from whomEvery San Francisco place on the siteParks, libraries, hospitals, piers, and the contract money paid for work at each