San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records

This collection contains paper and photographic records of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Records document the project areas of Diamond Heights, Embarcadero-Lower Market (Golden Gateway), Western Addition A-1 and A-2, Yerba Buena Center, Hunters Point, and other project and survey areas.

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Diamond Heights Project Area B-1

The survey area was designated by the Board of Supervisors on July 24, 1950, and a plan was approved by the board on Oct. 24, 1955. As late as the 1950s, three-fourths of Diamond Heights lay...
Show moreThe survey area was designated by the Board of Supervisors on July 24, 1950, and a plan was approved by the board on Oct. 24, 1955. As late as the 1950s, three-fourths of Diamond Heights lay undeveloped and uninhabited. In 1954, a California Appeals Court decision (San Francisco Redevelopment Agency v. Hayes) affirmed the validity of defining vacant land as blighted under the California Community Redevelopment Law, clearing the way for the redevelopment of Diamond Heights. The project was closed out on Sept. 27, 1978. Construction was substantially completed in 1979.
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San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records

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