Repairing a San Francisco greenhouse

From KALW:

In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola called University Mound.

“You step inside them and immediately it’s warmer,” Cancino says. “It’s quieter, the birds are chirping. You smell the flowers and there’s the crunch of earth under your feet.”

He called his friend David Gabriner, and suggested he come take a look.

“We showed up and kind of fell in love – not with each other but with the greenhouse – and started daydreaming about what this space could be,” says Gabriner.

So they made their love official, by founding The Greenhouse Project.

The Greenhouse Project are talking with the PUC about co-purchasing the land and saving the greenhouse land for community use. To do this, they’ll have to raise several million dollars. And the deal’s not final -- the property could sell tomorrow to somebody else. But if everything goes according to plan, their visions could be taking shape as early as 2016.

For more information, check out the KALW website.