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Glen Canyon Park

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Glen Canyon Park (park, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $411,175 paid to contractors for work here, $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 7 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Glen Canyon Park's civic record centers on renovation. The 2008 Clean & Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond describes a 66.6-acre park off Elk Street and O'Shaughnessy Blvd, with a 1934 recreation center and the 1960 Silver Tree Day Camp, and funds repair of the rec center, play area, day camp, courts and field. Arts Commission minutes record selecting three finalists for the Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center public-art project. Mid-century redevelopment reports describe an 80-acre naturally wooded canyon with a day camp. Building permits for the park total about $9.8 million, led by an $8.2 million 2015 phase-II renovation and seismic retrofit. The park is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line totals about $250M. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.

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Grounded summary

Glen Canyon Park's civic record centers on renovation. The 2008 Clean & Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond describes a 66.6-acre park off Elk Street and O'Shaughnessy Blvd, with a 1934 recreation center and the 1960 Silver Tree Day Camp, and funds repair of the rec center, play area, day camp, courts and field. Arts Commission minutes record selecting three finalists for the Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center public-art project. Mid-century redevelopment reports describe an 80-acre naturally wooded canyon with a day camp. Building permits for the park total about $9.8 million, led by an $8.2 million 2015 phase-II renovation and seismic retrofit. The park is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line totals about $250M.

Built from: 7 archive documents, city budget data — no outside knowledge added.
$411,175
paid to contractors for work here

70 Elk St · City-owned · 15,200 sq ft · parcel 7560002 · District 8 · City Facilities registry

What public money did here
Paid to contractors for work here$411,175
San Francisco Parks AllianceFY2019–2022 · 2 contracts$234,543
Treaty ConstructionFY2023$166,182
West Coast TurfFY2020$10,450

What the City actually paid, across 3 contractors. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.

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.

In the archive
See 1 more document

2 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.

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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