Macys.com puts its shoulder into Bayview

Staff and interns from Macys.com joined with Bayview neighbors, yesterday, at the Quesada Garden to construct composters, tool sheds, and a new retaining wall for the new "food patch."

QGI's gardener's hat is way off to all who participated. Thank you!

New recycling center on Bayshore

A new recycling center is set to open on July 18th at 195 Bayshore Boulevard, at the former Caldwell site near Beverages and More. The center is meant to meet the city’s demand for consumer facilities for the redemption of plastic, glass and aluminum beverage containers.

TOMRA Pacific, Inc., a Connecticut company, hopes their facility will be user-friendly. It has designed into the center drive-through service as well as self-service "reverse vending machines." The company has planned for handling high volume, up to 5 million containers a month, in what will be one of the largest facilities in San Francisco.

The number of recycling centers in the city has fallen to 15 from 35 in just the past few years, largely due to the closure of grocery stores that offered drop-off centers on their property.

"TOMRA offers a better, cleaner alternative to industrial junkyard-style recycling centers which can be intimidating and overwhelming for many people," said Matt Millhiser, the company's Director of Convenience Zone Operations.

The Bayshore location is scheduled to operate seven days a week from 9am to 5pm. Vehicles will enter off Bayshore, and exit onto Barneveld.

TOMRA has operations in nearly 50 countries, and over 435 locations throughout California including the existing Bayview location in the Williams Street FoodsCo parking lot.

Community-minded Bayview businesses - all in the family

When Bayview Footprints did its “Third Thursday” series of social events at gathering spaces and businesses along Third Street, Peter Gomez was one of the first to offer one of his family’s Bayview community businesses as a site.

The gathering at “The Road House Café” was one of the most spirited in the entire series. Friendly staff (like Maya, pictured) worked on an off-night to make sure we were well cared for.

Now the Gomez family has opened La Michoacana Taqueria, a new companion venture to their El Azteca Taqueria, on Bayshore Boulevard at Oakdale. True to style, they have brightened and modernized a dingy corner where they will be serving the great food Bayview residents, workers, and visitors have come to expect from them.

Bayview Footprints salutes the Gomez family, their friends and employees for their hard work and community-mindedness. We’ll see you at La Michoacana Taqueria on Bayshore and Oakdale!

Taqueria gets makeover