"San Francisco businesses and institutions just love to be honored with historic landmark status, because it honors them as unique and irreplaceable assets to the city, and it also makes it far more difficult for landlords to demolish or renovate buildings with landmark status. We are not aware of any occasion where a business or institution has been offered landmark status, but rejected the distinction. Yet we are seeing this now."
"Its exteriors were used in several shots in , though the interior church shots were filmed at First United Methodist Church in Hollywood. But Noe Valley is all over the movie , and the Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub has an absolutely delightful retrospective on how the film's set designers cleverly made Noe Valley look like a slum for the shooting of the film."
San Francisco businesses and institutions value historic landmark status because it recognizes uniqueness and makes demolition or renovation far more difficult. The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese is opposing landmark designation for its Noe Valley churches, including St. Paul's Catholic Church at Church and Valley streets. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has sought landmark status for several churches and historic buildings in District 8 to protect them before proposed upzoning increases redevelopment vulnerability. St. Paul's is a 115-year-old English Gothic building whose exteriors appeared in a major 1992 comedy, while interior shots were filmed at First United Methodist Church in Hollywood. A Chronicle retrospective examined how the film's set designers altered Noe Valley's appearance for shooting.
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