Wikimedia Commons · HaeB · CC BY-SA 4.0The Buchanan Street Mall was built by the Redevelopment Agency as part of the Western Addition A-2 project, and the agency was selling it to residents before it existed: a 1971 brochure for the new Western Addition describes the townhouses of Loren Miller Homes facing "the future beautifully-landscaped Buchanan Street Mall", and Third Baptist Gardens bordering it. The Art Commission approved the design in 1973, resubmitting phases I and II together. By 1975 the department's open-space report records it as finished, calling it "the innovative Buchanan Street Mall" and putting its cost at $470,000, alongside five permanent mini-parks at $284,000. The city's property register lists the mall at 1200 Turk Street, 78,925 square feet, assembled across five separate lots. Its condition since is measured in the Controller's parks scorecards: 66.98 percent in 2006-07, rising sharply to 82.78, then 85.2 percent in 2008-09 and 94.1 percent at the midpoint of 2009-10. The mall has now been rebuilt — McGuire & Hester was engaged for the renovation at an agreed $11.71 million and has been paid $15.26 million.
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 mall at 85.2 percent.
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 report, showing the mall's score jumping nearly 16 points to 82.78 percent.
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 scansAn open-space report recording the completed mall at $470,000, beside five permanent mini-parks.
General manager's report : Open Space Acquisition and Park Renovation Fund · 1975 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA mid-year report with the mall at 94.1 percent, its highest in the series.
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
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The city's property register, giving the mall's address, area and the five lots it spans.
Real property owned by the city and county of San Francisco / 2006 · 2006 ↗Internet Archive — Democracy's LibraryA redevelopment brochure selling new homes on the strength of the mall before it was built.
The New Western Addition is a good place to live · 1971 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
1 procedural record — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
