Japantown Peace Plaza
Park
Japantown Peace Plaza (park, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $16.0M paid to contractors for work here, $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 1 contract, 1 capital project, 3 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The Peace Plaza is a small Recreation and Park site in Japantown, and the city's own scorecards are the clearest record of how it has been kept. The Controller's annual parks reports rate every park on maintenance and appearance and print the series: the plaza scored 82.4 percent in 2005-06, rose to 87.8, slipped to 85.4 percent in 2007-08, then reached 95.4 percent in 2008-09 — a gain of 9.9 points — before easing to 90.0 percent halfway through 2009-10. Rebuilding it has twice gone through the Board of Supervisors. In October 1999 the Finance and Labor Committee heard a request to release $785,000 of reserved Public Works money to pay Competent Building Inc. for the Japantown Peace Plaza Project, part of $2.75 million of the department's citywide capital budget that the committee had put on reserve pending budget details, with the coordinator of the Japantown Planning, Preservation and Development Task Force speaking in support. The recent renovation is carried by a single contract: Plant Construction Co LP was engaged at an agreed $11.76 million and has been paid $15.90 million, the gap between the two being the ordinary record of a construction contract growing as work proceeds. The paid figure is money that has actually left the city to a vendor. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
Wikimedia Commons · Payton Chung · CC BY 2.0The Peace Plaza is a small Recreation and Park site in Japantown, and the city's own scorecards are the clearest record of how it has been kept. The Controller's annual parks reports rate every park on maintenance and appearance and print the series: the plaza scored 82.4 percent in 2005-06, rose to 87.8, slipped to 85.4 percent in 2007-08, then reached 95.4 percent in 2008-09 — a gain of 9.9 points — before easing to 90.0 percent halfway through 2009-10. Rebuilding it has twice gone through the Board of Supervisors. In October 1999 the Finance and Labor Committee heard a request to release $785,000 of reserved Public Works money to pay Competent Building Inc. for the Japantown Peace Plaza Project, part of $2.75 million of the department's citywide capital budget that the committee had put on reserve pending budget details, with the coordinator of the Japantown Planning, Preservation and Development Task Force speaking in support. The recent renovation is carried by a single contract: Plant Construction Co LP was engaged at an agreed $11.76 million and has been paid $15.90 million, the gap between the two being the ordinary record of a construction contract growing as work proceeds. The paid figure is money that has actually left the city to a vendor.
Archive coverage for this place is limited — only 3 matched documents so far, so this summary stays short rather than padded.
What the City actually paid, across 1 contractor. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.
Every line opens that contract’s own page, with its spend curve and its subcontractors. Agreed amounts are ceilings, not spending.
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.
The 2008-09 parks report, scoring the plaza at 95.4 percent after a 9.9-point gain.
FY 2008-09 parks annual report : parks scores citywide increased for fourth year, but disparities remain between districts · 2008 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe 2007-08 parks report, showing the plaza's score slipping to 85.4 percent before it recovered.
FY 2007-08 parks annual report : parks scores increased for third year and differences between district averages narrowed · 2007 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA mid-year park-standards report, with the plaza easing back to 90.0 percent.
Park standards, 6-month report FY 2009-10 : park scores citywide increased through the first half of FY 2009-10 · 2009 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
