San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Union Square from The Cheesecake Factory.<br />
Union Square has also come to describe not only the immediate vicinity of the park but<br />
the general shopping, dining and theater sub-districts within the surrounding blocks. The<br />
Geary and Curran theaters one block west on Geary anchor the "theater district" and<br />
border the Tenderloin. At the end of Powell Street two blocks south, where the cable cars<br />
turn around beside Hallidie Plaza at Market Street, is a growing retail corridor that leads<br />
to the Yerba Buena Gardens, with its own arts and entertainment centers, more large<br />
hotels, the Moscone Convention Center and the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Museum of Modern Art.<br />
Also south of Market and near Yerba Buena Gardens is the historic United States Mint<br />
Building, built in 1874 of granite: a rare survivor of the 1906 quake. Nob Hill, with its<br />
grand mansions, apartment buildings and hotels, stands to the northwest of Union Square.<br />
This area is also home to some of the most upscale luxury hotels in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>.<br />
To the north is Chinatown, with its gate at Grant Avenue and Bush Street, one of the<br />
largest Chinese communities outside Asia. The city's historic "French Quarter" runs east<br />
along Bush Street and tucks into the alleys of Belden Place and Claude near the French<br />
Consulate and the landmark Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Church.<br />
Union Square is the central shopping, hotel and theater district in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>.<br />
This area was the home to the city's first French settlers, who, according to historian<br />
Gladys Hansen, were most sympathetic of the housing and employment needs of the<br />
Chinese settlers in the nascent days of Chinatown and shared Dupont street as a business<br />
address -- a tolerance that was only tested, according to Alexandre Dumas in A Gil Blas<br />
in California (1852), when Chinese cooks began to tamper with French cuisine. The<br />
cafes, hotels and restaurants of the French Quarter today maintain a distinct joie de vivre<br />
befitting the Quarter's heritage. Every year, the area is the site of the boisterous Bastille