The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency was an urban renewal agency active from 1948 until 2012, with purpose to improve the urban landscape through "redesign, redevelopment, and rehabilitation" of spe
Geary Street underpass in Western Addition
Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge in Chinatown
The Embarcadero Plaza (formerly Justin Herman Plaza) in 1988
Japantown, San Francisco
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Japantown, also known historically as Japanese Town, is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. Japantown comprises about six city blocks and is considered one of
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
…Tiffany Bohee, Interim Executive Director, 2012 During the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the city had a surplus of buildings in Japantown. The SFRA took this as an opportunity for urban renewal to create the new Western Addition neighborhood — particularly the formation of the Fillmore…
View from Kabuki Hotel facing west. Below is the Japan Center and Peace Pagoda
Looking north on Buchanan Street, across Post Street in Japantown.
Japantown residents being relocated to Japanese American internment camps in 1942, during World War II.
Dancer at the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival (1990s).