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About the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association
Association Benefits
How To Join
Board of Directors and Committee Chairs
Association Meeting Minutes
Neighborhood News
– TheBarbaryCoastNews.com
Business Members – “Preferred Merchants” List
Quarterly BCNA Newsletters
Association Bylaws
Development Review Policies - PDF
555 Washington Development Information
Exploratorium Draft EIR (18 mb)
Dates to Remember
Next Board Meeting
Thursday, July 15, 2010/ 6-8 pm.
Location:
TBA
Annual Meeting
Thursday, June 3, 2010 / 6
pm.
Location:
The Pub / Hornblower Santa Rosa Ferryboat / Pier 3
Proposed Amended Bylaws
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From upscale restaurants and
lush parks, to historic buildings and high-rise apartments, the new Barbary Coast has come a long way from its blue-collar, raucous
beginnings. Walton Square, once the City's colorful produce market, is now an art-filled park offering a serene, grassy getaway.
Our North Waterfront district was born out of the dilapidated warehouse area that in the mid-1800s fed, clothed and watered the people of San Francisco. Now
the North Waterfront is home to hundreds of diverse businesses, including some of our nation's media and advertising
giants from national networks to multinational ad agencies.
Much has changed here over the past 150 years. The land we now call Barbary Coast was then a San Francisco Bay coastline. In 1849 when word spread of finding gold, sailing ships by the hundreds came here, dropped anchors, and sank their vessels in the muck. That muck, combined with
those wooden ships, became part of the
fill soil which would turn into the foundation for The Embarcadero, the Ferry Building, the Piers, retail businesses, offices, condominiums, restaurants, coffee shops and three picturesque parks--all part of our modern-day Barbary Coast. Our blue-collar roots go deep.
And we're proud of our roots and our future!
All photos courtesy
of Morton Beebe Photography ©
2006
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