Talk of the Point

I happen to like the Point Richmond Gateway design. But not everyone agrees.

Archtect and Point landowner Walter Connolly asks good questions about it in his comments to “What’s up with Tom Butt?” For one thing, Walter wants to know where his tenants will park, not to mention Plunge users when the pool reopens. I haven’t […]

What visions Katrina brings. We in the Point gaze upon New Orleans and some of us see ourselves in a similar fix from the Hayward Fault, a Chevron release, terrorism, or who knows what else.

So it seems like a good time to finally take the R.E.A.C.T. training. I’ll be in the class that begins this […]

You may have noticed the mural going up across West Richmond Ave from Suzhou restaurant. It’s Brian Elder’s WPA-style snapshot of Point history, and by about mid-September it’ll be ours too.

“What would happen if all the hard working, shady and trustworthy and not so hardworking got together and had a bit of a party?,” he […]

Downtown residents received a mailed notice this week about the new liquor license at the Baltic. Things seem to be moving ahead on the reopening.

The two Toll Brothers reps did a song and dance last night at the Neighborhood Council meeting–and they got a resounding thumbs-down.

Their proposed mega-unit, multi-story, view-blocking complex reeked. Rarely has the Point, or even Brickyard Landing, seen such ugliness. Their brand-new blight would rival even the Iron Triangle’s admirable collection.

Through it all, though, the audience […]

Walter Connolly says a hypnotist will move into an office in his building on Washington Avenue, next to Kao Sarn. Dr. O’Keefe–Walter doesn’t remember her first name–will offer hypnotherapy and lessons in self-hypnosis. She arrives August 1.

Just imagine that N.I.C.E. passes. Just imagine that the N.I.C.E. people stop butting heads with the not-so-N.I.C.E. people and instead convince them that the whole scheme would work out for everyone. (I don’t see how, but they can try me.)

The first question I’d ask is who’s going to do the grunt work? That’s not directly […]

It’s been a breezy couple of days in the Point as fighting intensified over N.I.C.E..

Yesterday, Tom Butt emailed his N.I.C.E. backers about his concern over “a small group carrying on a full court press to defeat it.” Some people who had once backed it are now opposed or wavering.

Late this morning I ran into my […]

Last week’s Consumer Confidence Index showed that we Americans have felt better about Things lately. For the local mood, I went to ask Gus about we Pointers.

Gus says little but sees much at his perch across from Santa Fe Market. He has spent much of the last 30 years there, and his father spent most […]

The long-closed Baltic restaurant is supposed to open in August or September.