Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco 1952, 12ĭreams of urban renewal drove a great deal of postwar urban planning and politics. The present wasteful use of potentially valuable land must be stopped if the South of Market area is to become a well functioning part of the city's environment. he conditions of blight are such as to be highly conducive to social disintegration, juvenile delinquency, and crime.
The South of Market Area ranks among the most severely blighted sections of the city, along with Chinatown and the Western Addition. This study of 86 blocks is concerned with the problems of blight and with ways and means of improving the area through the use of the redevelopment process.
The South of Market area for many years has been recognized as an area of blight producing a depressing, unhealthful, and unsafe living environment, retarding industrial development, and acting as a drain on the city treasury. Justin Herman, Executive Director, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, 1970 (cited in Chester Hartman, The Transformation of San Francisco, 1974)įormer Redevelopment Agency official Carlo Middione describes getting hired at the Agency and what working for/with Justin Herman was like. "This land is too valuable to permit poor people to park on it." The Redevelopment juggernaut rolled over other neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970s in addition to SOMA, but by the 1990s SOMA redevelopment resulted in conflicting social uses in the western South of Market, where gay leather bars persisted next to straight night clubs and Costco. San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) redevelopment process was planned early and combined with hotelier Ben Swig's plans for the area, eventually led to today's Yerba Buena Gardens, itself a contested outcome. Redevelopment in San Francisco began in the early 1950s, targeting so-called "blighted" areas for "slum clearance" and new construction. SPUR Graphic: The South Of Market Land Rush.
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