AN UNTOLD STORY: HOW IT CAME TO BE 1000 SENIORS CELEBRATE THE YERBA BUENA COMMUNITY’S 40 YEARS!

“On September 27th 1,000 elder residents of all eight Yerba Buena Neighborhood senior residences joined together in Moscone Center’s Esplanade Ballroom to celebrate their 37th annual Senior Ball sponsored by the Center and the TODCO Group. These apartment blocks, intended as replacement low-income housing for 4000 SRO units demolished by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in the 1970’s, are the heart of the Yerba Buena neighborhood today: Clementina Towers (built 1971), Silvercrest Residence (1972), Alexis Apartments (1974), Woolf House (1979), San Lorenzo Ruiz Center (1980), Ceatrice Polite Apartments (1986), Mendelsohn House (1988), and Eugene Coleman Community House (2002)…[read more]”