Mid-Market stores are worlds apart, a sign of rapid change.
Author Archives: Geoff Link
Geoff is the executive director of the San Francisco Study Center. He is also the editor and publisher of the Central City Extra, a monthly newspaper for the Tenderloin, Civic Center and Sixth Street corridor.
Posted inLand use, Neighborhoods
Mid-Market: The shape it’s in. Who owns it. What’s next.
We call it the plywood parade — the relentless march up Market Street from Fifth to Eighth of boarded-up or erratically open storefronts, emptying offices in the upper stories and crumbling facades. Some 31 percent of the storefronts on this stretch of Market Street are vacant. Both local government and businesses are trying to restore this faded area of Market Street into a vibrant commercial center. The three mid-Market blocks mostly look like hell.