Corona Heights Park

Corona Heights contains about 16 acres, of which only two are developed — a 1983 environmental report for a nearby housing project describes the rest as a flat grassy area and a rocky hilltop, with the Sidney Peixotto tennis courts and the Junior Museum on the developed part, and records that players waited for a court here much as they did at Buena Vista. The undeveloped ground is protected by policy as well as by terrain: when the Recreation and Park Commission adopted criteria for gifts of art, it listed the sites where art installations would not be permitted at all, and Corona Heights appears on that list beside Glen Canyon, Twin Peaks and Bernal Heights. What the city has spent here has gone into the ground rather than onto it. The general manager announced the completion of an erosion control project carried out by the San Francisco Conservation Corps — renovated pathways, fencing moved, retaining walls built and access improved, supervised by a Public Works landscape architect and funded by the Open Space Program at a total cost of $90,000 — and the commission's completed-projects list also records the resurfacing of the park's tennis courts. The exception on the hill is the Randall Museum's façade, which carries Charles Sowers's kinetic sculpture Windswept, accepted into the Civic Art Collection in 2013. One recent contract names the park: Granite Excavation & Demolition was paid $60,000 in 2024.

Archive coverage for this place is limited — only 4 matched documents so far, so this summary stays short rather than padded.