SF Is Still Fighting Over a Neighborhood That Hasn’t Existed in 50 Years

That’s because, once upon a time, the area where the downtown convention center now sprawls was a dense neighborhood of poor and working people, and its metamorphosis into today’s business and tourist-friendly district was the result of the mass demolition of thousands of homes in the 1970s. The long and bitter showdown over SF’s so-called Skid Row shaped not only downtown and the city’s financial ambitions. Along with the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Abhj17kYU" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Negro removal</a>” of the Fillmore and the freeway frenzy that led to a <a href="https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Freeway_Revolt" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">citizen revolt</a>, it also fed a culture of suspicion and anger at large-scale projects and development that linger to this day. <a href="https://thefrisc.com/sf-is-still-fighting-over-a-neighborhood-that-hasnt-existed-in-50-years-5a5fad4b33cb">Learn More</a>