South of Market, San Francisco

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South Market (or SoMa ) is a relatively large neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States located south of Market Street, and contains several sub-neighborhoods including: South Beach, Mission Bay and Rincon Hill.

SoMa is home to many city museums, to the headquarters of some major software and Internet companies, and to the Moscone Conference Center.

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Name and location

The boundaries are Market Street to the northwest, San Francisco Bay to the northeast, Mission Creek to the southeast, and Division Street, 13th Street and US Route 101 (Central Freeway) to the southwest. It is part of the city where the road network runs parallel and is perpendicular to Market Street. This environment includes many smaller sub-environments such as: South Park, Yerba Buena, South Beach, and Financial District South, and overlap with several others, especially Mission Bay, and the Mission District.

As with many environments, the exact boundaries of the South of Market area are blurred and can vary greatly depending on the authority quoted. From 1848 until the construction of Central Freeway in the 1950s, 9th Street (formerly known as Johnston Street) was the official (and generally recognized) boundary between the SoMa and the Mission District. Since the 1950s, the limit is 10th Street, 11th Street, or Central Freeway. Similarly, the entire Mission Bay neighborhood may or may not be counted as part of the SoMa, Excluding the entire Mission Bay neighborhood of the southeastern boundary at Townsend. Rebuilding agencies, social service agencies, and community activists often exclude more affluent areas between waterfront and 3rd Street. Some social service agencies and nonprofit organizations calculate economically difficult areas around 6, 7, and 8 as part of the Secondary Market Corridor.

The terms "South of Market" and "SoMa" refer to relatively large districts in the city as well as much smaller environments. The smaller environment appears to consist of the largest contiguous portion of the Southern Market area which, at some point in time, is in the early stages of gentrification, and still retains many older characters from the larger districts.

While many San Franciscans refer to the environment with its full name, the South of Market, there is a tendency to shorten its name to SOMA or SoMa, possibly referring to SoHo (South of Houston) in New York City, and, in turn, Soho in London.

Before being called South Market this area is called "South of the Slot", a reference to the cable cars that run up and down Market along the slot where they grip the cable. While cable cars have long disappeared from Market Street, some "old timers" still refer to this area as "South of the Slot".

Since 1847, the official name of the South Market area is "100 Vara Survey" (alternately "100 Vara District") or just "100 Vara" for short (with "100" sometimes spelled out). Since the mid-20th century, the official name has gradually been forgotten, and today it is found mainly in history books, legal documents, title deeds, and civil engineering reports.

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History

In 1847 Washington A. Bartlett, alcalde (judge) of the pueblo (village) of San Francisco, commissioned Jasper O'Farrell to extend the pueblo boundary to the south by creating a new subdivision. At that time, the streets of San Francisco parallel the compass point, walking north to south, or east to west. Each block is divided into six lots of 50 varas on one side. (A vara is about 33 inches (84 cm).) O'Farrell decides that the roads in the new subdivision must run parallel to or perpendicular to the only road in the area, Mission Road (then Mission Street) and thus become parallel to the half-points of the compass, ie northeast to southwest, and northwest to southeast. He also decided to make the new block twice as long and twice as wide, with each 100 varas on one side. Finally, O'Farrell created a "big promenade" linking old pueblo with a new subdivision, Market Street. Since then, downtown San Francisco north of Lower Market Street has been officially known as 50 Vara, while the South of Market area is officially known as 100 Vara.

During the mid-19th century, SOMA became a thriving pioneering community, comprised mostly of low-density residential buildings, except for the growing business area along the 2nd and 3rd avenues, and the emerging industrial area near the coast. Rincon Hill became a bag for the rich, while the adjacent South Park became a bag for the upper middle class. At the beginning of the 20th century, heavy industrial development due to its proximity to the San Francisco Bay pier, coupled with the emergence of a cable car, has driven the rich to Nob Hill and pointed to the west. It became a working-class and lower-middle-class community of European immigrants, sweatshops, power plants, flophouses, and factories recently.

The 1906 earthquake completely devastated the area, and many earthquake casualties occurred there. After the earthquake, the area was rebuilt with a wider path than usual, because the focus is on the development of light to heavy industries. The construction of Bay Bridge and US 101 Routes during the 1930s saw large plots in the area destroyed, including most of the original Rincon Hills.

From the late 19th century until the mid-20th century, the South of Market area was served by several tram lines owned by the Market Street Railway Company, including the No. 1 electric railway. 14 Mission Street, Bryant Street no. 27, 28 Harrison, 35 Howard, 36 Folsom, 41 Second and Market, and No. 42 First and Fifth Line.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the South of Market was home not only for warehousing and light industry, but also to transient populations, sailors, other male workers living in the hotel, and the working-class housing population in old buildings in The smaller Victoria side streets and alleys gave it a "skid row" reputation.

The rebuilding of the Emmarcadero waterfront in the 1950s encouraged new populations into this area in the 1960s, a new gay community and, in particular, the skin community. From 1962 to 1982, the gay skin community grew and flourished along the South of Market, most visible along Folsom Street, as it was a largely empty warehouse area at night. Sites of various sex clubs and bars, such as Caldron and Slot, it was the sexual center of San Francisco during this period. The community has been actively resisting the ambitious urban redevelopment program for the region throughout the 1970s. But as the AIDS epidemic flourished in the 1980s, the ability of these communities to stand in the city center and City Hall dramatically weakened. The crisis becomes an opportunity for the City (in the name of public health) to close the baths and set the bar - a business that has become the cornerstone of the community's efforts to maintain a gay space in the Southern Market environment.

In 1984, when spaces for the gay community soon closed down, a coalition of housing activists and community organizers started the Folsom Street Fair, to increase the visibility of the community as people at City Hall and elsewhere tended to think it was gone. The Fair also provides a much-needed fund-raising tool, and creates opportunities for members of the skin community to connect to essential services and information (for example, on safer sex) which bath houses and bars may be ideally located for distribution.

The rebuilding plan was first outlined in 1953. This plan began to be realized in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s with the construction of a conference center, Moscone Center, which occupies three blocks and hosted many major trade fairs. Moscone South opened its doors in December 1981. Moscone North opened in May 1992, and last at Moscone West in June 2003.

With the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1995, the Mission and Howard Street area of â€‹â€‹the South of Market has become a center for museums and showrooms. Intersection for the Arts is also based in that neighborhood, a non-profit organization that supports local Bay Area artists. The San Francisco Institute was founded in 1965 in Tenderloin, but has moved into the city to its current location in SoMa. Intersection supports art by offering local artist resources, fiscal sponsorships, and exhibition and showrooms.

This area has long been a place of bars and nightclubs. During the 1980s and 1990s, several warehouses there served as homes for underground raves, punk, and independent music worlds in the city. However, in the last few decades, and largely due to the gentrification and rising rental rates, these companies have begun to serve the upper and upper class customers who then push out their underground musicians and scenes. Beginning in the 1990s, older housing stocks have joined the loft-style condos. Many of them are built under the auspices of "direct work" development that seems to be meant to keep the art studio community in San Francisco. During the late 1990s, "live-work" attic residents were more likely to be "dot-committees", as the South of Market became the local center of the dot-com boom, because of its central location, space for infill housing development, and easy space converted into an office.

The enormous transformation of this environment was conceived during the 2000s with the Transbay Terminal Replacement Project, which broke out in August 2010, and is planned to open in 2017. In addition, new housing projects such as One Rincon Hill, 300 Spear Street, and Millennium Tower transforms the San Francisco skyline. In 2005, the Transbay Joint Resources Authority proposed to raise the altitude limit around the new Transbay Terminal. This led to proposals for more supertall buildings, such as Renzo Piano's proposal for a group of towers spanning two 1,200 feet. (366 m) tower, two 900-foot towers (274 m), and 600-foot tower (183 m). The 1,200-foot (366 m) tower will be the tallest building in the United States outside of New York City and Chicago. The Renzo Piano complex has been canceled, and was replaced by a new project called 50 First Street, designed by Skidmore, Owings & amp; Merrill (SOM). In addition, Cesar Pelli and Hines Group have also proposed another 61-floor office tower as high as 1,070 feet (366 m). The Salesforce Tower, formerly called the Transbay Tower, is intended to be under construction, and will be completed by 2017 soonest.

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Demographics

In the 2004 Census, The Race Population Change 1980 to 2000 graph illustrates that the largest percentage of the population in the SoMa is white, but the percentage remains the same. Latino and Asia/Pacific populations are at the same rate. The Latino and the Asia/Pacific Population Solver is a resident of Mexico (1,048 inhabitants), Chinese (1,798 inhabitants), Vietnam (106 inhabitants), Japan (120 inhabitants), Philippines (2,713 inhabitants), and India (276 inhabitants).

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Economy

This neighborhood consists of warehouses, auto repair shops, nightclubs, hotel residences, art space, loft apartments, furniture showrooms, condominiums and technology companies. The children's main park is also built for the area above Moscone South. The park has a large play area, ice skating rink, bowling alley, restaurant, Children's Creativity Museum, and a restored carousel from Playland-At-the-Beach. Children's Park and Children's Creativity Museum are joined to Yerba Buena Gardens by pedestrian bridge.

Business

Many major software and technology companies have their headquarters and offices here, including Ustream, Planet Labs, Foursquare, CloudFlare, Wikia, Thumbtack, Wired, GitHub, Pinterest, CBS Interactive, LinkedIn, Trulia, Cleanify, Dropbox, IGN, Salesforce. com, BitTorrent Inc., Yelp, Zynga, Airbnb, Uber, Advent Software, and Pac-12 Networks. This area is also home to several Big-Box stores in San Francisco such as Costco, REI, Nordstrom Rack, and Best Buy.

Public Health

The South of Market Health Center ensures health care access to comprehensive care by providing mental and physical health services to close the gap in health disparities. It provides institutions with programs including finance, health care, food aid or job training. In terms of sexual health, the San Francisco City Clinic in the district offers sexually transmitted infections and treatments (STDs), in addition to counseling and condoms.

211 United Way Bay Area is a service that connects callers with services and programs: including basic needs, physical and mental health, employment assistance, and senior support.

Other Attractions

The local University Art Academy has several buildings in the neighborhood, especially for academic and administrative purposes.

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Culture

Cultural center

SOMA is home to many San Francisco museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Yerba Buena Arts Center, and Museum of African Diaspora., Zeum and Contemporary Jewish Museum are also in the Buena Yerba Region. The Old Mint, which served as the San Francisco Mint from 1874 to 1937, was restored for an eight-year period and reopened to the public in 2012. The Art Center, along with Yerba Buena Gardens and Metreon, is built on top of the North Moscone.

Many small theater companies and places are located in SOMA, including Lamplighters, The Garage, Theater Rhinoceros, Boxcar Theater, Crowded Fire Theater, and FoolsFURY Theater.

Events

Due to the history of gay rights in the region, the Folsom Street Fair is held at Folsom St between 7th and 12th Streets (now between 8th and 13th Streets). Smaller and less-commercialized Subculture of Up-Up Alley Fair (commonly referred to as Dore Alley Fair) was held in late July in and around Folsom St. Also home to the annual How Street Weird Faire features dancing and costumes, held in early May along seven city blocks including Howard and the Second Road.

Several Philippine cultural events are held such as the Philippine Historical American Moon Celebration at the Asian Art Museum in October and the Parade Pistahan and Festival in August.

Undiscovered SF, held monthly, promotes economic activity and consciousness of SoMa Pilipinas. It supports retail, restaurant and business concepts by providing professional skill-setting workshops and professional services such as accounting and crowdfunding to prepare the business for growth and sustainability.

LGBTQ and Leather Cultural District

LGBTQ and Leather Cultural District was created in SoMa in 2018. This area is limited by Howard St. in the northwest, 7th St. in the northeast, I-80 in the east and US 101 in the south. There is also an exclave between 5 and 6 streets, Harrison and Bryant. This includes the San Francisco South Market Market History, which opened in 2017.

SoMa Philippines

In April 2016, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution establishing the SOMA Philippines Filipino Cultural Heritage District. The relationship between SOMA Pilipinas and the Philippines was established in the resolution: "Whereas, the pattern of Filipino immigration to San Francisco is rooted in the subsequent conquest and colonization of the Philippines by the United States in 1898, the American colonial regime in the Philippines from 1899 to 1946, and the US- often unequal and imperialist from 1946 to the present. "The city of San Francisco is certified Tagalog as the third official language by 2014, and the 2010 Census describes the Filipinos to reach 36,347 Filipinos in the 5,106 town residing in the Southern District Market. Inside the official border of SOMA Pilipinas - Markets to the north, Brannan to the south, 2 to the east, and 11 to the west - are some avenues named after the Philippine history figures, including Rizal, Lapu-Lapu and Mabini, and lie between Folsom and Harrison Streets.