Design Approved For Sparkly Revamp of Powell Street

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/19/design-approved-for-sparkly-revamp-of-powell-street/The three blocks of Powell Street between the cable-car turnaround and Union Square are set to see some light installations, cafe tables, new paving and more under a new proposed revamp. The first schematic designs were released in June, and designers from Field Operations — the landscape design firm behind the Tunnel Tops park and New York's High Line — and Site Lab have imagined a revived foot of Powell Street with plenty of new illumination, including a striking, almost pixelated globe of suspended LEDs hanging over the cable-car turnaround. As the Chronicle reports, Field Operations associate Xiaoye Zhang made a presentation of the design to the SF Arts Commission on