https://foundsf.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Golden_Gateway_Redevelopment_Area 2026-05-04T06:04:54Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.3 https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Golden_Gateway_Redevelopment_Area&diff=31135&oldid=prev 2020-06-17T06:32:04Z

<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;font face = arial light&gt; &lt;font color = maroon&gt; &lt;font size = 3&gt;Unfinished History&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; The Golden Gateway redevelopment zone was placed over the old ...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;font face = arial light&gt; &lt;font color = maroon&gt; &lt;font size = 3&gt;Unfinished History&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> The Golden Gateway redevelopment zone was placed over the old [[Produce Market|Produce Market]] north of Market and east of Sansome Street. This San Francisco Redevelopment Agency map shows the area marked as &quot;GG.&quot; It was the first area targeted for &quot;slum clearance&quot; and rehabilitation into what it became, highrise, the Embarcadero Center and Hyatt Regency Hotel, and the Golden Gateway Apartments (high income apartments and townhouses on a 2nd floor promenade and parkway, carefully removed from street-level in order to secure its fortress architecture protections).<br /> <br /> [[Image:SFRDA-projects-all qap97r86wzrd0194.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Image:Southerly-on-Drumm-from-Washington 20180601 174526.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Southerly on Drumm Street from Washington over the parklands that were once the on- and off-ramps of the [[Freeways Never Built, or Unbuilt after 1989 quake|Embarcadero Freeway]] on to and off Clay and Washington Streets, Embarcadero Center looming along Clay.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Embarcadero-Maritime-Plaza-and-Golden-Gateway 20180601 180217.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Embarcadero Center and the Maritime Plaza building, with the Golden Gateway apartments peaking out in the distance.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Commercial-overpass-view-of-Pyramid-and-ICE 20180601 180029.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Commercial Street was converted for the four blocks of the Embarcadero Center through which it runs into a mezzanine- and 2nd-floor promenade in a mall.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Embacadero-from-JHP 20180601 173930.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Easternmost front of the Embarcadero Center, facing the [[Vaillancourt Fountain|Vaillancourt Fountain]] across the Embarcadero Plaza.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Commercial-pedestrian-overpass-over-Front 20180601 180334.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Commercial Street pedestrian overpass over Front Street.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Battery-and-Commercial-easterly 20180601 180619.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Battery and Commercial Streets, easterly view.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:One-Maritime-Plaza 20180601 175152.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;One Maritime Plaza, an architectural award-winner in its time.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Image:East-view-down-Commercial-Street-from-Grant 20180601 182055.jpg]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Easterly view down Commercial Street from its starting point at Grant Street in Chinatown.&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2018&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Redevelopment]] [[category:Buildings]] [[category:2010s]]</div>

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