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Moving tribute to a titan among Giants
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Fans, family and a former presidents honor Willie Mays in San Francisco
A celebration of life was held for Willie Mays in San Francisco’s Oracle Park on Monday. Those who knew Mays shared intimate moments of his life, while fans shared how he inspired them even from afar. KTVU’s Christien Kafton reports from San Francisco.
San Francisco Giants and their fans are saying a final farewell to a legend.
Inside Oracle Park the Giants family gathered for a moving ceremony to honor Willie Mays.
Luminaries from the world of politics, including former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown shared their personal recollections.
“I’d known Willie, because Willie was not just a baseball player, Willie was a world changer for us in San Francisco,” said Brown.
Former President Bill Clinton took the field as well. “Willie and I had gotten to know each other play golf, do all kinds of things,” said President Clinton. “He was going to sit with me through the game. Which I hoped would at least impress my daughter. She was over the whole president thing and then it got rained out, the game got rained out.”
From the world of sports, some of the biggest names in Giants history were on hand to honor the legend, including Filipe Alou, Dusty Baker and Mays’ godson, Barry Bonds with an emotional tribute.
“But I didn’t know all these years, turning 60 in July, what Willie was truly giving me,” said Bonds. “Until now. Forever memories. Forever memories. Like I said about my father, Thank you. Thank you.”
Fans showed up by the thousands, each one with a memory of the “Say Hey Kid.”
“For me, I was eight years old, my dad took me to Candlestick it was 1960, the first game I saw, the first time I saw Willie Mays and going forward from there. We’d have pick up games in the yard. Everybody wanted to be somebody, everybody wanted to be Willie Mays,” said TW Johnson.
“Because he represents San Francisco, he is the heart of San Francisco,” said Lana Chan. “He is so much a part of our community, that I felt I had to come out to respect him.”
Also on hand was Mays’ family, receiving a flag in honor of his military service in the Korean War that put his career on hold for two years. But the sentiment that we heard over and over again, that so many fans felt like Willie Mays was a part of their extended family, and the Giants family, and that while he may be gone, his legacy lives on.
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San Francisco supervisors initially approve 3,500 new homes at Stonestown Galleria
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Atop 30 acres of parking at San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria mall may soon come 3,500 new homes, acres of open space and other community services.
In a first reading of legislation by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Myrna Melgar, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave initial approval to a plan to redevelop acres of parking at the mall into housing, senior services, child care and park space, according to a statement from the mayor’s office.
Supervisors will vote on whether to give final approval to the project—located in the southwest part of the city near San Francisco State University—at their full meeting next Tuesday, according to a mayor’s office spokesperson.
“With the approval of this transformative project at Stonestown, we are showing how we can get to yes on housing and create a more affordable San Francisco for all,” Breed said. “This investment in our city will deliver jobs, sustain the mall as an economic engine, and provide badly needed housing, including for our seniors.”
The mayor’s office statement added that the project, proposed by real estate management firm Brookfield Properties, will help execute Breed’s Housing for All plan to allow the development of 82,000 new homes to meet a state mandate over the next eight years.
San Francisco, CA
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges
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Sam Altman’s $27 million San Francisco luxury abode is apparently plagued with issues, ranging from a leaky infinity pool to faulty piping that dumped raw sewage on the property. That’s according to a lawsuit that The San Francisco Standard linked to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, which claims Altman purchased a “lemon” with “pervasive shoddy workmanship and corner-cutting.”
The 9,500-square-foot estate is situated on San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street, where it overlooks the city and the bay. As you can see in this walkthrough of the home, some of its key features include a four-sided infinity pool that hangs off the edge of the house, a “Batcave” leading into a garage, as well as a system that uses recycled rainwater to irrigate an expansive garden and flush toilets inside the house.
But the $27 million mansion might not be all it’s cracked up to be. In a lawsuit filed last week in a San Francisco court, Altman’s legal team claims the real estate developer Troon Pacific “misrepresented the condition of the Property as of the highest quality” to sell it “as quickly as possible.” The plaintiff also accuses the developer of failing to hire qualified contractors, some of whom allegedly “retaliated” by “filling drainage and sewer pipes with contractor bags and debris” over claims they weren’t paid on time.
That “shoddy” workmanship has led to the pool leaking a “flood of water” into the home’s lower level last August, causing “the gypsum ceiling in that area to fail” and “the widespread presence of mold,” as claimed in the lawsuit. Altman’s legal team estimates the cost to repair the pool would be upwards of $4 million, and that’s not counting the “unconnected bathroom sewer line that dumped raw sewage on the ground,” “numerous leaking irrigation lines,” the “water intrusion at skylights,” among other issues.
For now, Altman might be stuck dealing with some inconveniences around the house while the lawsuit runs its course. But maybe he can ask ChatGPT for help fixing some of its issues — or, better yet, give him suggestions on how to find a new place.
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Skate Week kicks off with pop-up venue in the Presidio
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