By Dhyana Levey, Bay Nature
In the shadow of the picture-perfect Painted Ladies, Alamo Square is often taken as little more than a hillside for gawkers.
Tourists usually come to the park to look outside of it. But San Francisco officials are hoping to change that perspective as they embark on one of the largest restoration projects ever planned for the park since its 1857 origins.
“We want to turn the tide and make sure the view into the park is as beautiful as the view out,” said Steve Cismowski, a San Francisco Recreation and Park Department neighborhood service area manager.
The aim is to restore Alamo Square’s vintage, Turn of the Century look, and to do so the city needs to replace a failing irrigation system with a new one. Ballpark cost: $2.3 million.
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