Levi’s Plaza is his best-known project, a still-alluring blend of handsome brick buildings and naturalistic public space. “Gerson was unassuming — he didn’t want the attention,” said former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, who was backed by Mr. Bakar in Jordan’s successful 1991 mayoral campaign. Philip Gerson Bakar was born in Petaluma on March 12, 1928, the grandson of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and the son of a chicken farmer. For college he headed to UC-Berkeley, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration but a passion for real estate. An early success was Woodlawn, a garden apartment community in San Mateo designed in part by now-legendary landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. With Halprin as the landscape architect, and a sensitive mix of low-slung masonry buildings amid a privately maintained oasis of willow trees, fountains, hillocks and an artificial creek, Levi’s Plaza felt as though it had been there all along. UCSF Mission Bay also is one of the few places where Mr.

 

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