Assessor block 0202 (Embarcadero Freeway, Justin Herman Plaza)
Assessor blockFinancial District/South Beach1878–2026
1,086 records of San Francisco tie this block, 1878–2026: 226 decisions of the Board of Supervisors and 860 facts read from city reports. Open the full list, with filters for years, kind and outcome.
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- 1,086: 226 Board decisions, 860 facts from city reports
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- 1878–2026
Named places on this block 2
Embarcadero Freeway · Justin Herman Plaza
What the records say
The 60 most telling of its 1,086 records, in date order: the ones an editor picked first, then the highest scored. The one-line summaries were written by a language model from the printed page; open the page to check the wording.
| When | What the record says | Outcome | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-05-09 | Moliterno's Clay Street building accepted for the Harbor Emergency Hospital | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1936-06-29 | An Embarcadero Widening Fund set up for the city's rent share | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1955-12-27 | The Board set a special public hearing for January 3, 1956 on proposals to build the Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1956-01-03 | Straight-line Embarcadero Freeway approved by resolution 16288, despite calls for a curved route instead. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1957 | Bayshore Freeway, Bay Bridge and Embarcadero Freeway blocks · finding: industrial buildings built and residential uses almost entirely displaced | finding | City report: A preliminary plan for a project in the South of Market Redevelopment Area "D" : report to the City Planning Commission and the Redevelopment Agency scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, responsible for implementing the redevelopment in the project area | agency | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Federal Grant $5,933,700 | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Alternative plans considered and reported on by the Agency and Planning Commission within 30 days | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: Nearly all of the non-produce area within the project area is blighted | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: Vacancy rate in the non-produce area is higher than in the produce area | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 residential development · units: approximately 2,178 apartments in nine buildings | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 apartment buildings · height ft: high-rise fire proof structures | building | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Property owners may combine properties in a block and develop it under the Final Redevelopment Plan | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · acreage: approximately 44.61 acres | site | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Wholesale buildings in the produce area, built mostly shortly after 1906 fire, have inadequate loading facilities and truck access | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Streets directly serving the produce market vary from 29'-2-1/4" to 46'-3/4" in pavement width | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Practically no parking available on streets in the market and peripheral area | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: obsolescence and growing lack of proper utilization | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1962-12-24 | Board approves a freeway agreement with the State to build part of the Southern Embarcadero Freeway between Sixteenth and Nineteenth Streets. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-05-13 | Billboard and sign rules along Embarcadero Freeway approved | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-10-28 | Board refused to adopt the resolution on the Embarcadero Freeway ramp designs, 4 to 7. | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-11-12 | Board adopted as amended a resolution urging the Governor to create a commission studying Lower Market-Embarcadero freeway development and land use. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Downtown San Francisco Civic Center-Powell-Montgomery-Embarcadero Station Areas · other: 1965 Pre-BART Land Use and Zoning map | site | City report: Land use and urban development project : program-wide case studies scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-04-26 | Supervisor Morrison asked the City Planning Department and Public Works to report on demolishing or rebuilding the Embarcadero Freeway; request granted. | motion | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-04-26 | Supervisor Moscone was granted permission to prepare questions with the City Attorney on using savings to demolish the Embarcadero Freeway. | motion | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-07-26 | Board adopted a policy for a subsurface Golden Gate Freeway, phasing out the elevated Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1966-07-25 | City sewers built with state for Embarcadero Freeway | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1968-08-26 | Supervisor Blake's proposal to demolish the elevated Embarcadero Freeway was referred to the Streets and Transportation Committee. | referred | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1969-03-17 | State deal approved to relocate city sewers for freeway work | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1970-12-14 | Board resolution requests construction of the Maritime Parkway with ramp links to the northern stubs of the Embarcadero Freeway; adopted. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1974-07-08 | City and Redevelopment Agency to build [name withheld] second phase | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1974-07-15 | City and Redevelopment Agency to build [name withheld] second phase | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1974-07-15 | Deal to build phase two of [name withheld] approved | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1978 | Embarcadero, Powell Street and Civic Center BART stations · other: major plazas built | site | City report: Land use and urban development project : program-wide case studies scanned page ↗ |
| 1979-10-29 | Embarcadero Freeway demolition backed; federal road money redirected | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1985-11-04 | Embarcadero freeway removal and I-280 transfer-fund projects adopted as amended, urging Mayor to seek state and federal study funds. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1990-06-25 | State urged to drop the Embarcadero Freeway from its highway system | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1990-09-24 | Board adopted, as amended, a resolution endorsing immediate demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway and surface traffic replacement, while seeking subsurface funding. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1991-06-17 | Department of Public Works may spend $481,000 (≈ $1.2 million in 2026 dollars) from the Mayor's Earthquake Relief Fund on Embarcadero Freeway replacement planning, to be reimbursed. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1991-06-17 | $58.5M (≈ $144.7 million in 2026 dollars) sought to put the Embarcadero Freeway underground | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1994-02-14 | Study of options other than full rebuild of Embarcadero freeway ordered. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1994-10-24 | Public Works may accept and spend $3,005,943 (≈ $6.8 million in 2026 dollars) in federal and state funds to study replacing the Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1997-03-24 | Proposed agreement to sell former Embarcadero Freeway land between Steuart and Spear Streets to the Redevelopment Agency. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2003-07-08 | Ban on building under the Drumm Street land passes first reading | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2010-09-21 | The Board accepted a $61,000 (≈ $94,257 in 2026 dollars) gift of labor and materials from [name withheld] 261 to build bocce courts in [name withheld]. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2010-09-21 | Two bocce courts to be built at [name withheld] with donated labour | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2012-12-11 | $870,355 (≈ $1.3 million in 2026 dollars) grant accepted to design and build Sue Bierman Park playground | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Preliminary Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · adopted: adopted by San Francisco City Planning Commission by Resolution Number 4864 | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Preliminary Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · adopted: adopted by the San Francisco City Planning Commission, Resolution Number 4864 | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Project area selected and preliminary plan formulated by City Planning Commission Resolution 4864 | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco | agency | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1956 | Redevelopment Area E · cost usd: Federal capital grant reservation of $5,000,000 | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 report · other: Report transmitted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to Redevelopment Agency chairman Joseph L. Alioto | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Wholesale Produce Market Area, South Basin Housing Project Area · finding: blighted conditions described in December 14, 1954 report to the San Francisco City Planning Commission; conditions still essentially the same | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Area E · approved: Found and determined blighted by the Board of Supervisors, Resolution Number 15288 | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Tentative Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency contracted Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architects, to prepare the Tentative Plan | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of The City and County of San Francisco in Cooperation with the Department of City Planning | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Agency application for Federal survey and planning funds · approved: Application for Federal survey and planning funds approved by Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 2003 | Former Embarcadero Freeway Parcel · sold: sold to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency | property_record | City report: Real property owned by the city and county of San Francisco / 2003 scanned page ↗ |
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