“Well you busted me. I haven’t been to Bayview in almost 20 years.I guess I shouldn’t be surprised it has gentrified with all the .com money.”
That’s what did it. All that dreary City-owned housing on the southeast side of Potrero HIll is gone. Replaced wtih up-scale places with teriffic views of the Bay. I used to go down to a little hole-in-the-wall waterside burger joint on Third St. that overlooked the drydocks in the now defunct shipyard. We had a birthday party there last February, only the building has been replaced by an up-scale restaurant with seriously up-scale prices. The old American Can Plant is now offices and all the packing houses are long gone. Everything from Army St (pardon me Ceasar Chavez) to the Giants ballpark is all new or rebuilt. People here badmouth San Francisco, and it’s government today deserves all the ridicule and trash talk you can muster up. But when it comes to a vibrant place, SF really has no equal.
Army St.? Ha ha. Good one. I use to slum down there at the flea market.
Those old projects on Potrero are where OJ grew up if I recall correctly.
I did some business in China basin right before they built Pac Bell Park. It was easy to see the potential then.
I was also down in the peninsula in the ‘90s when a lot of the old time defense tech companies were shutting up shop.
I read recently that SF is more expensive than Manhattan now. Hard to believe.