'Deepistan National Park(let)
Visit the Deeplet at 937 Valencia St. in San Francisco, CA, USA
A Pachycephalosaurus makes a visit! Hello Pachy!
Trixie <3s dino-wannabes! (This month’s Best Parklet Visitors Award goes to Tamar Zmora & friends!)
Our long run of “no tags” ended. H8rs gotta h8. :-(
Local Triceratops expert Sydney Clemens informs us that there is a long standing triceratops tradition: “When confronted with a live triceratops, rubbing each of its horns gives you a wish!”
Rub-away!
“Real-estate agents say it’s a cultural shift. The new generation of Internet executives—younger than the last generation of dot-commers—eschews the trappings and responsibilities of expensive properties. They want to bicycle, walk or take public transportation.* They like living near food trucks and dive bars.”
This Wall Street Journal article mentions us (& has a nice pic!) as part of an overview of the real estate market in Mission with regards to the influx of tech money. This is always a sensitive subject and one we’re really cognizant of. There is either a lot to say or very little say about gentrification, but our parklet is definitely one way we try to be a net positive on the Mission! We like to hope that this breed of Missionites reflects values we’re in tune with & this article largely suggests that’s the case…
“You can spend a lot of money on a great restaurant here or just $5 on a burrito,” said Christian Niles, 31, who bought a two-bedroom apartment for $585,000 in the Mission with his wife in August because he saw real estate as a good place to store the cash he’d made from selling his app called TrackerBot to Pivotal Labs last summer. He plans to never own a car. *”
*Our emphasis
A lovely write up on TreeHugger! They think we’re a National Forest as opposed to a National Parklet, but we ♥ it anyway!
Courtesy Payton Chang on Flickr
Mission Local’s latest nice bit of parklet coverage, covering various community opinions on our little phenomenon. We say to everyone who prefers parking over parklets should spend just one hour in the ‘Deeplet. It’s amazing, even to us, how much appreciation our tiny space gets - there’s no comparison with a parking space. What a great experiment this has been!
This is site from Mission Local is simply fantastic. A photo series of tons of GREAT mission murals! It also includes our construction wall mural - though it is gone now…. but still. SO. GREAT.
This photo essay from the Bold Italic, has got to be one of our favorite pieces of press (even though they got our parklet’s name wrong!) - Jane, our park let mastermind, looks sassy!
Our plants are all “low-water/low nutrient need” and climate adapted species from Mediterranean climates; native species include Sisrynchium bellum and Juncus patens & are marked with a ‘*’.
