Potrero Hill’s biggest housing project starts with plenty of hope

SF Chronicle:

Without so much as a press release or ceremonial groundbreaking, the biggest housing project in the history of Potrero Hill got under way this week on a weedy lot on the southwest corner of 25th and Connecticut streets.

Construction started so abruptly that even longtime residents were surprised.

“People keep asking me, ‘What’s going on down there?’ They don’t believe it,” said Anna Mena, who lives in public housing on Potrero Hill. “Think about it — 10 years they been hearing ‘rebuild, rebuild, rebuild.’ Why would they believe it all of a sudden? It seems too good to be true.”

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