Potrero Hill
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The homes on Potrero Hill enjoy sunshine while many other areas become elements of the foggy soup that regularly rolls across San Francisco. Potrero Hill homes are somewhat isolated by freeways and big sections of industrial properties giving this neighborhood a quiet since of serene seclusion. This growing community sits on a big undulating hill overlooking her eastern shore of San Francisco |
Bay and its burgeoning waterfront. With additional vistas of the main business district of San Francisco this neighborhood lies sheltered by the hills to the west protecting this sunny neighborhood and bringing warmer than other areas of San Francisco. The residential streets are unusually clean for San Francisco, and every house seems to have a small garden, flower box or tree planted out front.
The types of homes here include single-family houses many older homes constructed in the Grand Victorian style and restored to their former elegance. You will also find Edwardian flats, townhouses, condos, adobe style houses, warehouses, work-live loft spaces multi-unit buildings and apartment buildings. Unique constructions are the mark of this neighborhood and you will find no cookie cutter home design here. In some places here homes are squeezed into their lots along twisting streets. As the process of gentrification snakes its way into the Potrero Hill neighborhood the character of residence has changed to a large number of two income families and will these new people will help accelerate the gentrification process.
Eighteenth Street is the principle commercial area of Potrero Hill. Here you will find fabulous bistros and java joints clubs, bookstores and flower shops. The construction of business facilities is increasing in the northern section of this community with dramatic changes taking place on Sixteenth Street bounded by Bryant Street and Potrero Street.
This expanding zone of commerce now has java joints, a bakery, a new age health store, a library and excellent restaurants. On the southern boarder of this growing community close to Pier 80 you will find a light industrial and research and development business park.
Potrero Hill is bounded by 16th Street to the north, San Francisco Bay to the east, Cesar Chavez Street to the south and Highway 101 to the west.
The price range for homes in the Potrero Hills neighborhood run from $500,000 to $1,800,000.
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Pier 70
The Pier 70 business area is home to the biggest ship renovation yards on the west coast. Pier 70 is the base for a number of other businesses in San Francisco including the Auto Return Towing Service, which is the central location of all towed and recovered stolen vehicles in San Francisco. Other businesses located here include an AM broadcast station, scrap metal collection site, storage facilities as well as a number of artists who have studio and store space here.
Dogpatch
The neighborhood of Dogpatch has a significant assortment of Victorian styled laborer’s bungalows constructed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This neighborhood sits on flat lands on the eastern edge of the Potrero Hill community originally the housing center for those who worked on the near by waterfront. The Dogpatch neighborhood is similar to the mixed industrial residential neighborhoods common to San Francisco before the big earthquake. The change you will see now it that lighter industry is locating here and a more upscale and professional resident. The beginning of the renaissance of this neighborhood began in the early seventies with an influx of artists and executive minded professional who purchased the existing Victorian styled bungalows and Edwardian styled flats and painstakingly restored them to their former cared for state. Many of the old industrial buildings, storehouses and other public structures here have deep historical connections. New businesses are seeing the value of this history and taking over some of these structures. A fashion and lifestyle company known around the world has converted and old vino storehouse as its center in San Francisco. A number of live and work loft spaces have been created here helping merge the residential and commercial nature of this growing old but new community.
Third Street
Condominiums are being constructed on the southern end of the Third Street corridor in anticipation of the extension of public transit lines and just ahead of the wave of young professionals moving into this neighborhood.
Central Waterfront
This is still a some what dilapidated area of San Francisco and this 130 acres section of this neighborhood is prime for expanding into more of a gentrified and melded residential, industrial and recreational facilities.
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