The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/09/vaillancourt-fountain-gets-one-last-chance-at-survival-as-demolition-gets-appealed-to-board-of-supervisors/There is one more last-gasp, hail mary attempt to save the Embarcadero's crumbling and controversial Vaillancourt Fountain, as preservationists have appealed the decision to remove it to the SF Board of Supervisors. It sure looked like curtains for SF’s Brutalist and debatably unattractive Vaillancourt Fountain at the Embarcadero Plaza, after the SF Rec and Parks Department specifically asked that the fountain be removed and put in storage in October, and the SF Arts Commission, which technically owns the fountain, approved its removal in early November. After all, the fountain has been inoperable and closed off to t

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