The mayor noted that the plaza was created as a paved and bricked buffer zone in the shadow of the old Embarcadero Freeway, the elevated double-decker roadway built in the late 1950s that cut off ...

Vaillancourt Fountain — designed by Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt in 1971 and erected alongside the since-removed Embarcadero Freeway in 1975 — will remain dry until the fixes are ...