The San Francisco call., 1910-05-07
POTRERO BOOSTERS
Want Changes
Fourth Street Bridge and Many
Parks Among Demands of
Association
By w. ]. BARRETT,
Secretary Potrero Commercial and Manufac
turers' Association

Secretary Potrero Commercial and Manufac
turers' Association
The Potrero commercial and manu-
facturers' association is strongly be-
hind a number of works that should be
performed in the Potrero district. The
district is bound to be of great import
ance to the welfare of the city, consid
ering the great extent of the Potrero
water front, the Importance of the in
dustries that are doing business there,
the amount of land that is available
for the sites of business plants and for
pleasant homes for those who are en-
ployed in connection with present and
prospective Potrero industries and the
great landlocked harbor that is pro-
posed for the Islais basin. While other
sections of the city are receiving kind
consideration at the hands of the board
of supervisors in relation to improve
ments, the Potrero claims to be entitled
to similar treatment 1t is the purpose
and aim of the Potrero commercial and
manufacturers association to promote
the progress of the Potrero and in pur-
suit of this purpose, a somewhat def
mite program has been adopted for
present consideration. Only those i'm
provements are advocated by the asso-
citation that are needed and that are for
the general good of the city as we'll as
for the local benefit of the immediate
section.
IMMEDIATE PROJECTS
Among the projects that the associa-
tion is urging for immediate action are
the following:
For new bridge over Fourth street.
which Qd will
$150,000. The immense travel over this
bridge along Kentucky street and the
business interests that are involved
are arguments for the proposed i'm
provement. The traffic on Kentucky
street and on the combinations of Ken
lucky street, namely Railroad avenue
and San Bruno avenue, make it of the
first Importance that the bridge should
be all that is required. Dependent upon
faclllties in this section are the Union
iron works, the Risdon iron works, the
western sugar refinery and Butcher
towns industries. Until dark daily a
continuous stream of vehicles of all
sorts is constantly going over this
route
The association also urges that
Kentucky street shall be raised from
Fourth to Sixteenth streets and that it
shau be thoroughly overhauled and re-
pared as far down in Railroad avenue
as Nineteenth avenue South. From
TINS point to the county line a good
road VIII be built, so that all sorts of
traffic and travel will be accommo-
dated. This route is one of the great
trade thoroughfares of the city,
san Bruno avenue is to be paved
from Army street to Milliken. and
Army street will be graded from Ken
tucky street to San Bruno avenue and
also will be widened to 100 feet from
Alabama street to Kentucky.
The stagnant pool of water known
as the Red Sea-" in the block bounded
by twenty third and Twenty-fourth
streets and between Kentucky and
tennessee streets, will be drained or
filled in, so that it will be a service
able area instead of nuisance
petitions have been filed with the
utilities committee of the board of
supervisors and the propositions have
the support of many prominent organ
izatlons, including the labor unions.
to provide parks as follows: The Po-
trero park, estimated to have an area
OF 800 acres and to cost s35OOOO. Bay
View park, TO contain 100- acres and to
cost 100000; Glen park, to include %
acres and to cost $4,000, and Tele-
graph hill park. which may cost
S250,O00 for the necessary work. The
total estimated cost in relation to
these parks is S790.00O