Visitacion Valley
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Homes in the Visitacion Valley are located in a varied ethnic neighborhood. Most of the houses here are single-family, single-story homes and townhouses. This is a bedroom community of San Francisco sitting southeast of McLaren Park. This neighborhood of younger working class citizens live in older remodeled homes. Many lines of stucco houses stuffed onto lots with no side yards with a garage downstairs |
and living quarters upstairs. The townhouses and apartments become visible near the San Francisco county line to the south. There were two major public housing developments here, Geneva Towers and Sunnydale. Geneva Towers was a compound of twenty story towers that were infamous for crime. These towers have been torn down and replaced with apartments. There are many small stores through out the community where people shop.
Visitacion Valley is in San Francisco county but it seems more geographically connected to the communities across the county border to the south with its grid style street layout. Recreation and entertainment are readily available to the residents here with the hills of McLaren Park to the
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north and the Cow Palace to the south. The San Francisco airport, Candlestick Park, McLaren Park and golf course are also with in easy reach of this community. The main commercial drag in this community is Leland Avenue.
Visitacion Valley sits in a bowl of land south of San Francisco bounded by Dwight Street to the north, Bayshore Boulevard to the east, the San Francisco county line to the south and La Grande Avenue to the west.
Little Hollywood.
Little Hollywood is a small neighborhood with Southern California-style bungalows painted in muted tones. This secluded little San Francisco residential neighborhood sits sandwiched between the community’s industrial section and Highway 101. The industrial center of Visitacion Valley is located just west of Little Hollywood.
Sunnydale
Sunnydale is a well planned public housing project constructed in 1941 primarily to house low-income families, including shipyard personnel from the Hunters Point naval station.
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