Live@SPUR Podcast — SF Downtown Plan at 30

On August 12, 2015, SPUR hosted a panel discussion about San Francisco’s 1985 Downtown Plan, its legacy 30 years after adoption, and how it might point the way toward a new plan for downtown. Speaking on the panel were three people involved in the plan’s creation and implementation: Dean Macris, George Williams, and Jeff Heller. Dean Macris was San Francisco’s Planning Director during three periods: in the mid-1970s, from 1980 to 1992, and again from 2004 to 2007. He led the effort that created the 1985 Downtown Plan. George Williams was Assistant Director of Planning under Dean Macris in the 1980s, where he was in charge of long-range planning including the Downtown Plan. And Jeff Heller is President of Heller Manus Architects, a firm he founded with Clark Manus in 1984. Heller served on a professional task force that helped create the Downtown Plan, and his architectural résumé includes many buildings in downtown San Francisco. Generously sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Music by Podington Bear ( and Deal the Villain ( licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0 (

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Live@SPUR Podcast — SF Downtown Plan at 30 is an episode from The Live@SPUR Podcast by SPUR.

This episode is 00:33:41 long.

This episode was published on Sep 22, 2015.

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