The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/20/bart-turning-to-community-driven-workshops-in-latest-attempt-to-clean-up-16th-and-mission/As pretty much every attempt to reduce blight around the 16th and Mission BART station has failed, BART is now floating the idea of a “community-driven process” of meetings and workshops to revitalize the beleaguered station area. Some might argue with the premise of a Sunday Chronicle story which claims that the Civic Center BART station and UN Plaza have been quite thoroughly cleaned up by the new skateboard park, lines of trees that have been added, and the occasional free concert held there. The Chron describes that area surrounding CIVIC Center station as “utterly enchanting, starting with the skate park at United Nations Plaza

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