Bayview sits between a freeway and the bay as a sprawling commercial, residential, and light-industrial corridor on San Francisco’s southeastern edge. It is described as the least photographed neighborhood in a highly photogenic city, with tour buses largely bypassing it. The area includes a toxic cleanup site at Hunters Point Shipyard and is portrayed as the city’s “boiler room,” hosting industrial facilities and services tied to an on-demand urban lifestyle. Industrial zones are said to be marginalized through lack of public attention, investment, and acclaim, with repetitive, brandless buildings and streets that can feel unwelcome. The Bayview-Hunters Point and Bayshore industrial legacy is traced back about 150 years, beginning with the banishment of slaughterhouses from downtown to create “Butchertown.”
"San Francisco's historic Bayview district, tucked between a freeway and the bay, is a sprawling commercial, residential, and light-industrial corridor on the city's southeastern edge. It is the least photographed neighborhood in one of the world's most photogenic cities. It contains a toxic cleanup site at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Tour buses don't stop here except to refuel overnight."
"For these reasons and many more, the Bayview continues to bear the consequences of its thankless role as the city's boiler room. The area, once considered on the outskirts of town, is home to many of the industrial facilities and services integral to our on-demand urban lifestyle. Nobody set this as a public policy, but cities often marginalize their industrial areas, and, by extension, the businesses operating anonymously perpetuate this, too."
"Aging industrial areas resist the spotlight - and, in turn, receive little public attention, investment, or acclaim. In the Bayview and other industrial areas, there are blocks and blocks of brandless, nondescript buildings that may not make much of an impression on passersby. Industrial structures and streets are often mind-numbingly repetitive and, unlike typical commercial areas, visitors may feel unwelcome."
"The legacy of the Bayview-Hunters Point and the Bayshore industrial corridor dates back about 150 years. There was no master plan, but foul odors played a pivotal role in this story. Less than two decades after the "forty-niners" turned San Francisco into a Gold Rush boomtown, city leaders banished slaughterhouses from downtown to the sparse Bayview district, creating "Butchertown.""
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