Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley has gentrified past the point of irony and arrived at expensive sincerity — 80 restaurants, 29 coffee shops, a CorePower Yoga, and a community garden that used to be a freeway. The development wave tag is polite for 'the rents went where and now what?'
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About this Neighborhood
Hayes Valley's transformation from the shadow of the Central Freeway to San Francisco's most self-conscious neighborhood is one of the city's better urban planning stories: Loma Prieta damaged the elevated freeway in 1989, the city tore it down in 1996, and Patricia's Green crystallized around it. The result: 80 restaurants and 29 coffee shops. Pilates on Page and CorePower Yoga signal the current resident profile precisely. The social glue score of 75 — with 44 dwell venues — is the highest in the San Francisco neighborhoods of this batch. The SoMa West Skate Park provides some counter-programming. Fifteen grocery options is well above the cohort average of 7.5. The development wave tag is merited: Hayes Valley is still attracting investment while artists who arrived a decade earlier haven't been fully displaced yet. The Koshland Park Community Garden is evidence that not everyone has stopped trying.
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