Central Business District
Named in the records1939–1997
148 records of San Francisco tie this place, 1939–1997: 2 decisions of the Board of Supervisors and 146 facts read from city reports. Open the full list, with filters for years, kind and outcome.
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- 148: 2 Board decisions, 146 facts from city reports
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- 1939–1997
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The 60 most telling of its 148 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Transbay Transit Terminal · built: constructed as part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge railway | building | City report: Transbay Transit Terminal current and future needs study : staff working paper : final scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | Rapid transit local subway · proposes: local subway collecting automobile passengers from peripheral parking garages and distributing them through the central business district | project | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | Central business district of San Francisco · finding: could not absorb the ultimate volume of traffic introduced by a second crossing | finding | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | Central business district of San Francisco · recommendation: parking facilities adequate to absorb a large portion of cross-bay traffic should be provided before it enters the district | recommendation | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | Local subway loop serving central business district · proposes: A local subway loop or loops to collect and distribute passengers from the terminal to the central business district | alternative | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | Central business district peripheral parking · recommendation: central business district cannot handle the ultimate volume of traffic from a second vehicular crossing and should be supplemented by peripheral parking facilities | finding | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | crossing dispersion pattern · finding: would distribute traffic entering the central business district over a broader front than a north crossing | finding | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | central business district streets · finding: streets can absorb only a small amount of additional traffic; street parking increasingly unavailable | finding | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | central business district · recommendation: discourage private automobiles in the central business district and substitute rapid mass transportation | recommendation | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1947 | south crossing · alternative: Permits use of cheaper property if peripheral parking is provided remote from the central business district | finding | City report: Report of Joint Army-Navy Board on an additional crossing of San Francisco Bay scanned page ↗ |
| 1950 | District W · other: Working area district encompassing central business district on both sides of Market Street, extending north | site | City report: Transportation planning for San Francisco : a report on the planning procedure and planning and engineering techniques utilized in preparation of the San Francisco long-range circulation plan, 1946-1948 scanned page ↗ |
| 1959-12-28 | The Board passed on second reading $10,000 (≈ $115,787 in 2026 dollars) for a Water Department leakage survey in the Central Business District. | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1959 | Central Business District evening peak vehicle trips · other: 2.4% decrease in vehicles leaving CBD during evening peak hour | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1959 | Central Business District evening peak vehicle trips · other: 12.4% increase in those leaving the CBD by mass transit | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1960-01-04 | Payment of $10,000 (≈ $113,831 in 2026 dollars) to hunt for water leaks downtown approved. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1960 | CBD employment · jobs: Total CBD employment grew by over 40,000 persons | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1960 | CBD net new floor space · floor area sqft: Eight million sq. ft. of net new floor space should have been added at 200 sq. ft. per employee | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1960 | CBD office buildings · floor area sqft: Nine million sq. ft. completed in major office buildings in the CBD as defined by the Census | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1960 | San Francisco Central Business District office workers · jobs: increased by 71,000 workers | finding | City report: Indirect environmental impacts : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1962 | Downtown Plan · approved: special supplementary appropriation of $25,000 to the Department of City Planning | action | City report: A community renewal program for the city and county of San Francisco : application to the Housing and Home Finance Agency for a federal grant to assist in the preparation of a community renewal program scanned page ↗ |
| 1962 | Downtown Plan · cost usd: $12,500 local non-cash contribution credited to Community Renewal Program | project | City report: A community renewal program for the city and county of San Francisco : application to the Housing and Home Finance Agency for a federal grant to assist in the preparation of a community renewal program scanned page ↗ |
| 1963 | Typical rentals by unit type, residential buildings 10 stories and over (Keyser/Marston & Associates) · rent usd: Monthly contract rent ranges by unit type (studio to bedroom) for sample buildings in San Francisco neighborhoods, with rental data years 1963-1972 | property_record | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Central Business District employment · jobs: 160,000 total CBD employment (1965 BATSC tabulation) | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | San Francisco Central Business District employment by industry · jobs: TOTAL 79,240 | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Hong Kong Bank · floor area sqft: 90,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Standard Oil of California · floor area sqft: 275,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Port of Oakland ACV demonstration route Oakland to downtown San Francisco · finding: fewer passengers than anticipated; a terminal closer to the central business district would have increased patronage | finding | City report: High speed water transit study for the San Francisco Bay Area scanned page ↗ |
| 1966 | Fox Plaza · floor area sqft: 215,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1967 | Central business district · other: CBD had one-third higher employment relative to sales than the rest of the city | finding | City report: Commercial and industrial activity in San Francisco : present characteristics and future trends : report to San Francisco Department of City Planning scanned page ↗ |
| 1967 | Matson Building · floor area sqft: 105,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1967 | Bank of California · floor area sqft: 265,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1968 | Bechtel · floor area sqft: 745,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1968 | First Savings & Loan · floor area sqft: 180,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1969 | Marin County commuters to San Francisco Central Business District · other: 30,030 commuters to San Francisco in 1969 (Marin County total) | finding | City report: Golden Gate commuter ferryboat system : San Francisco-Marin crossing scanned page ↗ |
| 1969 | Average contract rent per room, Central Business District · rent usd: $60 (10 stories and over), $63 (non high-rise) | finding | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1969 | Bank of America · floor area sqft: 1,495,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1969 | Crocker Plaza · floor area sqft: 390,000 sq ft gross leasable area | building | City report: Impact of intensive, high-rise development in San Francisco. Volume III, Urban economics : an evaluation of alternate development growth strategies, Step 1 - part B, a final feasibility report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Board of Supervisors plan for downtown employment · other: doubling CBD employment over the next twenty years | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | San Francisco Muni · other: 409,000 adult passengers daily; more than half board or alight in the CBD | agency | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Tram routing in the Central Business District · other: Routing of the tram in the Central Business District, shown on Figure III-15 | measure | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | [name withheld] network · proposes: [name withheld] service from BART and MUNI-RAPID stops to CBD, shopping areas, Civic Center, proposed Embarcadero Center and proposed Yerba Buena Center | project | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | BARTD (Bay Area Rapid Transit District) · other: Average speed of roughly 50 mph from East Bay terminal stations to the San Francisco Central Business District | project | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Central Business District · other: roughly 70% of people entering the area during the day by private automobile | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | CBD vehicular trips for workers · other: workers took mass transit into the CBD (62%) | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | CBD vehicular trips for shopping and personal business · other: shopping and personal business trips preferred the automobile (75%) | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | CBD vehicular trips wholly within study area · other: 25% of vehicular trips wholly within the study area | finding | City report: Housing and urban resource development for the city of San Francisco : an interdisciplinary study in systems design at Stanford University, winter and spring quarters 1970 : final report scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Central Business District · other: bounded roughly by Howard Avenue on the south, Powell on the west, Pacific on the north, and the Embarcadero on the east | site | City report: Golden Gate commuter ferryboat system : San Francisco-Marin crossing scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Central Business District · other: approximately 80 per cent of the 60 per cent destined to the area are destined for the Central Business District | site | City report: Golden Gate commuter ferryboat system : San Francisco-Marin crossing scanned page ↗ |
| 1970 | Outer Central Business District · other: the larger area is referred to as the Outer Central Business District | site | City report: Golden Gate commuter ferryboat system : San Francisco-Marin crossing scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART shopping trips · finding: small increase in shopping trips to the central business district of San Francisco | finding | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART recreational trips to San Francisco Central Business District · finding: BART influences occasional non-specific recreational trips to the Central Business Districts of Oakland and San Francisco | finding | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART ridership destinations, Central Business District of San Francisco · other: Central Business Districts of Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley | site | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART stations in the San Francisco central business district · other: stations have no parking lots | finding | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART impacts on visiting with friends · other: Visits with friends combined with trips to cultural or entertainment locations in the Central Business District | finding | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | BART regular commuters to San Francisco Central Business District · finding: BART perceived as more economical than auto for commuting, due to parking and toll out-of-pocket costs | finding | City report: Social impacts of BART on Bay Area families and life styles : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
| 1985 | Central Business District · units: 510 potential housing units on 5.1 acres | site | City report: Local development policy survey update for San Francisco scanned page ↗ |
| 1950 | Central Business District Cordon count · other: 58 stations at 34 locations counted, Jan. and Feb. 1948 | action | City report: Transportation planning for San Francisco : a report on the planning procedure and planning and engineering techniques utilized in preparation of the San Francisco long-range circulation plan, 1946-1948 scanned page ↗ |
| 1961 | Public Off Street Parking Facilities, Central Business District Parking Area · other: Map of public off street parking lots including service stations, compiled by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, March 1961 | property_record | City report: Public off street parking facilities in San Francisco : central business district parking area scanned page ↗ |
| 1977 | Daly City line · built: opened (7 1/2 miles and 8 stations) to San Francisco's central business district | event | City report: A description of BART : its facilities, service and surroundings scanned page ↗ |
| 1978 | BART fare structure (Table 7-1) · other: CBD fare (under 2 miles) for Central Business District trips, as printed in fare table | measure | City report: Implications of BART's economic, employment and financial impacts for the transportation disadvantaged : technical memorandum scanned page ↗ |
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