Mission Bay, San Francisco, California
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Mission Bay is a 303 acre neighborhood on the central bayshore of San Francisco, roughly bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate 280 on the west. It was created in 1998 by the Board of Supervisors as a redevelopment project. Much of the land was long a railyard of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and transferred to Catellus Development Corporation when it was spun off as part of the aborted merger of Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe Railway. Catellus subsequently sold or sub-contracted several parcels to other developers. It has rapidly evolved in to a wealthy neighborhood of luxury condominiums, high-end restaurants and retail, and biotechnology research and development.
Notable features include:
- The headquarters of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- The headquarters for mega retailer Old Navy[citation needed]
- A new research campus of the University of California, San Francisco, UCSF Mission Bay
- The northern terminus of the Third Street Light Rail Project of the San Francisco Municipal Railway
- The northern terminus of Caltrain
- An AT&T Fiber to the premises greenfield project
- The first new branch of the San Francisco Public Library in over 40 years, The Mission Bay Branch Library, opened on July 8, 2006. It is located on the ground floor of a new multi-use facility, which includes an adult day health center, affordable senior housing, retail space and a large community meeting room. The new library is approximately 7,500 square feet, and is the 27th branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
Mission Bay is served by the N Judah line of San Francisco's Muni Metro, which links the neighborhood to the downtown area and BART. Several Muni bus and trolley bus lines link the are to neighborhoods to the north, west and south. The Caltrain commuter rail system connects Mission Bay with San Jose and Gilroy. When full service begins in April 2007 (weekend service started in January), the T Third Street Metro line will run through the heart of Mission Bay, linking Downtown, the Bayview and Visitacion Valley. The proposed Central Subway project will make the link between Mission Bay, AT&T Park and Downtown even faster.
Although near to and often associated with AT&T Park, the ballpark is in the adjacent South Beach neighborhood. UCSF has announced plans to build a new Women and Children's Hospital and Cancer Center on a portion of their property in the neighborhood.
[edit] External links
- The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, Mission Bay
- The University of California, San Francisco's clinical and research planning for their property in Mission Bay
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