Mid-Market PAC Set to Suspend Activities

The process of transforming Mid-Market into a Redevelopment Area began in 1995. Judging by the many projects in the pipeline that will soon improve Mid-Market, the neighborhood has moved forward without Agency assistance. But a key remaining question for Mid-Market remains: how to get legitimate nighttime activities back in the area? Fortunately, despite all of the abuse the street has taken, the infrastructure still exists for returning Mid-Market to something close to its pre-1970’s glory.

In the next five years, San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood will undergo a physical transformation that will dramatically transform the area. The area bounded between 5th and 8th Streets will be bracketed by hundreds of new condos to the east and over 1000 new apartments at Trinity Plaza to the west, with the latter project featuring an outdoor plaza, café and restaurants that will make 8th and Market a happening nighttime locale.

In 1995, some believed that the Redevelopment Agency was needed to stimulate such activity. But market factors said otherwise, and it appears quite likely that Redevelopment’s forces in the area will vote to fold up their tents this week.

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