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The Mission District (Spanish: Distrito de la Misión), [4] commonly known as the Mission (Spanish: La Misión), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. [6]
The Hispanic population is most heavily concentrated in the Mission District, Tenderloin District, and Excelsior District. [10] San Francisco's African American population has declined in recent decades, [ 9 ] from 13.4% of the population in 1970 to 6.1% in 2010. [ 11 ]
The Mission Bay neighborhood is built on landfill located on San Francisco Bay south of Townsend Street, east of Interstate 280 and north of Mariposa Street. The new UCSF research campus at Mission Bay is part of the rapid growth of a new neighborhood of office buildings and luxury condominiums being built in an area that was formerly an ...
Mission District, San Francisco is heavily populated with Latino communities and has historically been subject to gentrification from growth and expansion of technology. For example, the cost of living and rent prices in the Mission District increased in the late 1990s after the Dot-com bubble boom. The Mission District was chosen as a place ...
94158, 94107. Area codes. 415/628. Mission Bay is a 303-acre (123 ha) neighborhood on the east side of San Francisco, California. It is bordered by China Basin to the north, Dogpatch to the south, and San Francisco Bay to the east. Originally an industrial district, it underwent development fueled by the construction of the UCSF Mission Bay ...
The San Francisco LGBT community first fully formed in the 1920s and 1930s. [8] The most prominent LGBT area then was North Beach. [8] Mona's, San Francisco's first lesbian bar, opened on Union Street in 1934, and featured cross-dressing waitresses as well as entertainer Gladys Bentley. [9] Nightclubs with drag shows drew both gay and straight ...
The Mission District, also called "The Mission" — a large neighborhood in eastern San Francisco, California. Originally known as "the Mission lands" from belonging to Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores), the 6th Spanish mission in Alta California. Mission Dolores, located within the neighborhood, is the oldest standing building in ...
ZIP codes. 94110, 94114, 94131. Area codes. 415/628. Noe Valley (/ ˈnoʊ.i / NOH-ee; originally spelt Noé) is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California. It is named for Don José de Jesús Noé, noted 19th-century Californio statesman and ranchero, who owned much of the area and served as mayor.