In January 2010, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) launched the Central Market Partnership, a public/private initiative to renew and coordinate efforts to revitalize the Market Street neighborhood between 5th Street and Van Ness Avenue. The City’s goal is to restore Central Market as San Francisco’s downtown arts district while inviting in new retail, restaurants, and businesses to take advantage of the transit rich corridor that serve the adjacent Tenderloin and SOMA neighborhoods. OEWD is leading this multi-agency effort to reinvest in this neighborhood Multiple City Agencies. nonprofit organizations, and private sector partners are coordinating efforts to implement the Central Market Economic Strategy (CMES) developed in November 2011.
The City will be piloting several strategies to test ways to improve public transit reliability, to provide safe and improved experiences for pedestrians, and to create better connections between north and south districts and neighborhoods.This traffic diversion pilot project requires eastbound traffic on Market Street to turn right at Tenth and Sixth streets in order to discourage the use of Market Street by through traffic. Transit vehicles, taxis, delivery trucks and bicycles are not required to turn right. The project does not close any portions of Market Street to general traffic, as traffic may still turn onto eastbound Market Street from all cross streets.The Required Right Turn Pilot project began as an experiment in September 2009 to improve conditions on Market Street for Muni customers, pedestrians, bicyclists and taxis. The purpose of the pilot was to determine if the improvements could be made while avoiding the creation of new traffic problems.Click here for more information
The Better Market Street Project is an initiative between city agencies and community partners to improve and enhance one of the oldest streets in San Francisco. Market Street cuts across the City for three miles from the waterfront at the Ferry Building to hills of Twin Peaks at the base of Castro. This project aims to improve the overall experience for residents, merchants, shoppers, and people visiting Market Street. The Better Market Street Project is an opportunity for the City to collect and analyze comments on how to improve and reinvigorate this public realm. This project is in the visioning process and the goal is to reshape and redesign Market Street to coincide with the planned resurfacing of this corridor in 2014. Click here for more information,