By Dan Hirsch
In the March issue of San Francisco Magazine, Lauren Smiley writes the following:
For decades, Mission Street has resisted gentrification. Even as parallel Valencia Street has become permanently yuppified and high-end shops have crept onto staunchly Latino 24th Street, Mission Street has remained the city’s largest and densest proletarian boulevard, a multicultural equivalent of Chinatown’s Stockton Street. But now, the vital low-rent artery that pulses between 16th Street and Cesar Chavez has become the hottest—and most controversial—frontier of speculation in San Francisco.
For what will be the first of many new editions of Listen Local, Mission Local’s podcast, I decided to spend a Sunday morning with Lauren walking down one of the neighborhood’s most historic corridors. It’s a block-long walk in this episode. LISTEN HERE and stay tuned for more.