[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Presidio of San Francisco (CA) art museum dropped

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fishers give up on plan for Presidio art museum

John King
San Francisco Chronicle
July 2, 2009


Gap founder Donald Fisher and his family have decided to abandon their 
efforts to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San 
Francisco's Presidio, The Chronicle has learned.

In calling off an effort that began with acclaim but turned into the 
city's fiercest development battle in a decade, the family holds open 
the possibility it might still try to build a home in the Presidio for 
its collection of work by such artists as Andy Warhol and Alexander Calder.

But the Fishers also say they are open to looking outside the city - and 
the Bay Area - before deciding what to try and do next.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/02/MNJL18HMBA.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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