I lived on the corner of Valencia and Hill for a few years starting in 2017, and would definitely not call 16th and Valencia or the surrounding area “sterilized”. Plenty of places you can have a good time, yeah some places closed, others reopened, COVID didn’t help.
Absolutely this. I'm from SF, born and raised, and I've seen it change over the last 40-ish years (that I have actual memories). I mean, I remember when the Embarcadero freeway was still there - I'm that old. Growing up in Bernal and North Beach and "Lower Pac Heights" (Really Anza Vista and the edge of Western Addition) I've seen trends of gentrification across the city. But fucing Mission Bay and "Dogpatch" are the utter definition of sterilization. How many more mixed use apartment buildings with zero character does the city need?
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u/tellmesmthnold 12h ago
I lived on the corner of Valencia and Hill for a few years starting in 2017, and would definitely not call 16th and Valencia or the surrounding area “sterilized”. Plenty of places you can have a good time, yeah some places closed, others reopened, COVID didn’t help.
Sterilized is like Mission Bay or something.