Two months after the Examiner‘s Michael Reed reported on the fate of Bolsover Street, after the failure of Lamesa’s Sonoma project, the Chronicle‘s editorial board opines thusly:
What infuriates and puzzles many locals is that a perfectly good, well-traveled street — a valuable commodity in the congested Village — is now lying idle, and could stay that way for the foreseeable future. That’s not a good deal for the public, and points to a serious lack of foresight and prudence on the part of the city.
The 2400 block of Bolsover Street, which bisects the lot, was, in effect, sold to the project’s owner, Lamesa Village, by the city, over the objections of many residents. It was slated to become a pedestrian plaza, accessible to the public, with shade trees and water features.
Today, thanks to a plummeting economy and a strangled credit market, the project is on hold indefinitely. Bolsover is gated shut, and the rest of the property now consists of a bare lot on the north side — with a few piles of dirt and random fence posts — and a shuttered sales office next to a once-bustling, now defunct Walgreens to the south.
Oh, well! If it makes the elitists on the editorial board feel any better, Mayor White promised he’d do better next time.
