Seismic safety facing a brick wall

While the city has spent $10.7 billion since Loma Prieta in seismic upgrades for projects ranging from retrofitting City Hall to the ongoing construction of both a new approach to the Golden Gate Bridge and a new patient wing at San Francisco General Hospital, the remaining unreinforced brick buildings are being handled piecemeal.

Retrofits are planned for some public buildings as funding becomes available, which may be years away. Some private buildings have been partially retrofitted, like the Clay Street offices of the nonprofit Chinatown Community Development Center, but haven’t been completed because of funding or other complications. Others are waiting to be demolished.

And those delays are where the danger comes in.

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