One of SF’s most controversial public monuments may come down
When city officials announced plans to transform San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza last July, locals seemed optimistic. The proposed project included the construction of a new waterfront park more than twice the size of Union Square, with renderings showing five acres of vast greenery replacing the existing concrete expanse and pathways leading to food trucks and sculpture gardens strewn with fairy lights in a bid to draw people downtown again.
In March, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in approval of legislation that would set those plans in motion. But pushback has been growing.
Bay Area skaters were quick to voice their concerns about the city’s lack of acknowledgement of the plaza’s history as one of the most renowned skateboarding spots in the world. And now, the 95-year-old artist behind the plaza’s infamous brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is making sure the city hears his plea to keep his own work around for decades to come…
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