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fromianVisits
4 days ago

Lifeline for London's largest city farm as Mudchute lease agreed

Mudchute City Farm secures a 30-year lease renewal with Tower Hamlets at £15,000 annual rent, ending years of uncertainty despite higher costs than previously proposed.
fromMission Local
6 months ago

People We Meet: Ted Barrow says S.F. is a skateboarder's Athens

Behind Barrow on the plaza stand two massive cubes, carpeted with astroturf and surrounded with high plexiglass walls - temporary installations where, for a minimum entry fee of $30, visitors can play padel, a racquet-based sport that touts itself as "easy to pick up like pickleball, dynamic like squash, and athletic like tennis." Barrow ends the tour on an urgent, if solemn note: now that plans are well underway to redevelop this plaza, San Francisco risks losing a part of its history.
San Francisco
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