October 2023 TODCO San Francisco Examiner Article Email
October 2023 San Francisco Examiner Article Email
Downtown San Francisco’s Recovery:
Yerba Buena Is A Place To Begin
Seven major projects in the area provide a path for revitalizing the future of the neighborhood.
Almost 50 years the leadership of Mayor George Moscone convinced all of San Francisco to embrace a “grand Yerba Buena compromise” vision of a new convention center (now Moscone Center) for the City’s visitor industry combined with a beautiful Yerba Buena Gardens for all the People of the City. And just ten years later the Redevelopment Agency, TODCO, and community stakeholders again all agreed to an even more ambitious compromise vision of building a new civic arts center (now the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Center for the Arts) in Yerba Buena along with a future Yerba Buena residential Neighborhood surrounding it all – now home to 13,000 San Franciscans of all backgrounds, including 2000 seniors.
But realizing all the possibilities of these big visions and grand compromises from decades ago has never been completed. And now that Downtown San Francisco, which surrounds this Yerba Buena Neighborhood, is in civic distress here is where a next generation of renewed Yerba Buena community building can make a real difference for Downtown San Francisco’s future.
These seven major revitalizing Yerba Buena Neighborhood projects are realistic and do-able within the next 10-15 years…[read more]
