Lillie Hitchcock Coit mausoleum - Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

Nice to see that a lot more attention is being paid to art and whimsy in San Francisco's public spaces. Now if they just dynamite all of that high-end retail around Union Square, that would help enormously in revivifying the area.

California Street cable-car stop finds its heart with $80K sculpture

By Patrick Hoge | Examiner staff writer

Jul 28, 2025 Updated Jul 28, 2025

From the left, Alice An, Eri Suzuki, Stella Kim, Andrew Kremers of SITELAB urban studio; Downtown SF Partnership Vice President of Planning and Economic Development Claude Imbault; Market Street Railway President Rick Laubscher; Downtown SF Partnership Placemaking and Urban Design Manager Franco Ferraro; and City and County of San Francisco Urban Designer Maria De Alva pose in front of the new Heart SF art sign on Thursday, July 24, 2025. 

he foot of California Street in recent days, a crowning new feature that is part of an effort to make the site more inviting and memorable for visitors and residents alike.

The 7-foot-tall, 16-foot-wide metal “Heart SF” sign at Robert Frost Plaza, which is fitted with lighting for nighttime, is meant to be photographed. It was inspired by the iconic “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” ballad sung by crooner Tony Bennett, whom The City posthumously celebrated last year with the decorating of a cable car on the California Street line in his honor.

It is just one of a series of changes made this year to the plaza at the corner of Market and Drumm streets next to the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel — the recently dubbed “Downtown Gateway” — that have been led by the Downtown SF Partnership community benefit district.

California Street cable-car stop finds its heart with $80K sculpture

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