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According to TRI Commercial, the traditional Financial District provides approximately 30 million square feet (2,800,000 m 2) of office space, and the South Financial District offers about 28 million square feet (2,600,000 m 2). [22] In the 2020s, the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated an exodus of business from the downtown core of San Francisco ...
The San Francisco Planning Department officially identifies 36 neighborhoods. Within these 36 official neighborhoods are a large number of minor districts, some of which are historical, and some of which are overlapping. [citation needed] Some of San Francisco's neighborhoods are also officially designated as "cultural districts". [citation needed]
During the early 20th century, "running north from Market Street to the Barbary Coast, Kearny Street was an avenue of honky-tonks and saloons frequented by racetrack tipsters and other shady professionals. On election nights it was the scene of torch-light parades and brass bands", as summarized in the 1940 WPA guide to San Francisco. [6]
Park Presidio Boulevard runs through the Richmond District between 14th Avenue and Funston Avenue connecting Golden Gate Park to the Presidio of San Francisco, and is itself a park. This route also carries California State Route 1. Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco
South of Columbus Avenue, Montgomery Street runs through the heart of San Francisco's Financial District and contains one of the highest concentrations of financial activity, investment business, and venture capital in the United States and the world. For this reason, it is known as "the Wall Street of the West".
Locally the street is sometimes called Belden Lane, Belden Alley, or Belden Street. The surrounding neighborhood, which includes adjacent alleys and several blocks of Bush Street, is sometimes, though not universally, referred to as San Francisco's French Quarter for its historic ties to early French immigrants, and its popular contemporary French restaurants and institutions.
According to the 2010 neighborhoods map of the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR), Jackson Square Historic District lies within the Financial District/Barbary Coast neighborhood. [3] However, according to a 2006 definition by the city mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, the area forms part of the North Beach neighborhood. [4]
The eastern end of Commercial Street was originally the waterfront before it was filled in for real estate. It led to the Financial District and is the location of both the original San Francisco Mint and the California headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company. After a new Mint building at Fifth and Mission Streets opened in 1874, the original ...