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In the Castro. Not downtown

• gedy 3y ago
  A whole 1.5 miles away
  • beej71 3y ago
    A block is all you need.
  • pb7 3y ago
    I can tell you live in a land of sprawling strip malls if you think that's even remotely close in a city.
• xcrunner529 3y ago
  Interesting. So is there any reason tourists would check out downtown or is it a little like south Chicago?
  • felixfbecker 3y ago
    What the media calls "Downtown" is really mostly offices. There also isn't really any district called "Downtown". There is FiDi (financial district), which is definitely all offices (dead on weekends), and SoMa (south of market), which is also mostly offices in the north-east part and ex-industrial/residential in the south-west part. Then there is the mid-Market area which has some newish residential development. Any remaining bars, restaurants etc are basically all just serving either the office crowd or the residents of SoMa (the former is getting smaller, so those businesses are unsurprisingly not doing so well). There is some stuff like a Target with an AMC and a convention center in SoMa too but that's basically it. All the tourist attractions are in different, older parts of the city (Powell St, Embarcadero, etc). I don't see a reason a tourist would want to go to downtown (aka SoMa or FiDi).