Why The Mid Market Community
The Mid-Market community has struggled for over thirty years to find its way and represents one of the most interesting opportunities in the City of San Francisco to experiment with the system approach to reinvention. For more information on the background of this historic area please click on the Resources page link and read the grat overview from SPUR.
The City of San Francisco's Efforts
The City of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Work Development worked with community key stakeholders to develop the Central Market Partnership a public private initiative to reinvent the Mid-Market community.
Per the City of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Work Development's policy "In January 2010, OEWD launched the Central Market Partnership, a public/private initiative to renew and coordinate efforts to revitalize the Central Market neighborhood, the stretch of Market Street 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, services and employers to take advantage of the transit and downtown location and serve the adjacent Tenderloin and SOMA neighborhoods. OEWD is leading this multi-agency effort reinvest in this neighborhood that has long suffered from blight and disinvestment. City partners include SF Planning, SF Redevelopment Agency, Department of Public Works, MTA, Arts Commission, Police Department, and others."
The City of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Work Development is developing an economic strategy for the Mid-Market community with AECOM and Deborah Frieden. For more information on the strategy and great background research on the community as well as case studies on the development of Art Districts, please click on the Resource page.
Enabling the Un-Enabled
One of the key elements to the successful revitalization of the Mid-Market,Tenderloin and SoMa community is to financially empower (Financial Empowerment looks at the "other side of the ledger" - increasing income by decreasing expenses and encouraging savings) the community members. The City of San Francvisco is working to address the key issue of the un-banked consumers in the Mid-Market, through the launch of the Bank on San Francisco. Please click on the Resources link to find out more information about the Bank on San Francisco program.
Investing In Your Own Community:
Mid-Market Project Ideas with links and pages to each project - please download the Presidio School Project pdf.
Mid-Market Community Economic Development Key Stakeholders
- City of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Workforce Development http://www.oewd.org/Central_Market.aspx
(For more information please see the Resources page for program documents) - City and County of San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector- Bank On San Francisco Program www.bankonsf.org
- Board of Supervisor District 6 Jane Kim's Office http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=11324
- Urban Solutions - www.urbansolutionssf.org/
- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center - www.rencenter.org
- Northeast Community Federal Credit Union – www.necfcu.org
- The North of Market –Tenderloin community benefit district www.nom-tlcbd.org
- The Central Market Community Benefit District www.central-market.org
- Tenderloin Neighborhood Development - http://www.tndc.org/index.html
- Tenderloin Economic Development Project- www.tedpsf.com
- Black Rock Arts Foundation - blackrockarts.org/
- The Northern California Community Loan Fund - www.ncclf.org/
- Glide Memorial Church - www.glide.org/