San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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eastern corner of this area (where Mission Creek meets the bay) is known as South<br />
Beach, a separate neighborhood, and the border below Townsend Street begins Mission<br />
Bay. The north-eastern corner (where Market Street meets the bay) is often considered<br />
part of the Financial District.<br />
South of Market was originally a warehouse district, with longer blocks than other parts<br />
of the city. Today, in addition to warehouses, there are a great many bars and nightclubs,<br />
restaurants, and residential lofts in the area. Since the 1950s, South of Market has been a<br />
center for the leather subculture of the gay community. At the end of each September the<br />
Folsom Street Fair is held on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets. The smaller<br />
and less commercialized but also leather subculture-oriented Up Your Alley Fair<br />
(commonly referred to as the Dore Alley Fair) is also held in the neighborhood, in late<br />
July on Folsom between 9th and 10th Streets and in Dore Alley between Folsom and<br />
Howard. During the late 1990s, South of Market was known for being a local center of<br />
the dot-com boom, due to its central location and relatively cheap housing and office<br />
space.<br />
Especially near the waterfront, Yerba Buena Gardens and Financial District, South of<br />
Market is rapidly gentrifying, with a large number of new residential high-rises and<br />
hotels.<br />
Because of its historic blue-collar nature, South of Market is also an area of settlement for<br />
new immigrants. Entire communities made their homes in the district--from Irish<br />
Americans and Italian Americans to Greek Americans. Presently the largest migrant<br />
group living in South of Market are Filipino Americans.<br />
The conference center, Moscone Center, occupies 3 blocks and hosts many major trade<br />
shows. Moscone South opened its doors in December 1981. Moscone North opened in<br />
May 1992, and most recently Moscone West in June 2003.<br />
With the opening of the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Museum of Modern Art in 1995, the Yerba Buena<br />
Center region of the South of Market has become a hub for museums. Other museums in<br />
the area include the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Museum of the African<br />
Diaspora, the Cartoon Art Museum, the children's Zeum, and the temporary home of the<br />
California Academy of Sciences. The planned sites for the Contemporary Jewish<br />
Museum and the Mexican Museum are also in the Yerba Buena area. The Center for the<br />
Arts, along with Yerba Buena Gardens and the Sony Metreon, is built on top of Moscone<br />
North. Across Howard Street, built on top of Moscone South, is a children's park<br />
featuring a large play area, an ice skating rink, a bowling alley, a restaurant, the Zeum,<br />
and the restored merry-go-round from Playland At the Beach. The children's park and<br />
Zeum are joined to Yerba Buena Gardens by a foot bridge over Howard Street.<br />
A major transformation of the neighborhood is planned with the Transbay Terminal<br />
Replacement Project, which if funded, is planned to be open by 2013. In addition, many<br />
residential projects are set to transform the overall <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> skyline, with highrises<br />
up to 55 stories like One Rincon Hill(see sfcityscape.com). According to an article on