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Delve into Potrero District
The district Potrero District of San Francisco in San Francisco County (California) is a subburb in United States about 2,434 mi west of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Oakland, San Rafael, Redwood City, Martinez and Napa. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 54 °F
Morning Temperature | 10°C / 51 °F |
Evening Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
Night Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 50% |
Air Pressure | 1022 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (9 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 6% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
11°C (52 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
14°C (57 °F)
14°C (57 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Thursday, 21st of November 2024
14°C (56 °F)
14°C (57 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
InterContinental Hotels SAN FRANCISCO
Holiday Inn SAN FRANCISCO-CIVIC CENTER
CITY CENTER INN AND SUITES
BEST WESTERN PLUS AMERICANIA
CARRIAGE INN
OAKWOOD AT EDGEWATER
Sumner House SF
ABODA at 923 Folsom
SAN FRANCISCO
The Utah Inn
Videos from this area
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Saiga Conservation Alliance · Elena Bykova and Olga Espiova · Expo 2014
Mother-daughter conservation team Elena Bykova and Olga Espiova talk about their work saving the endangered saiga antelope. Recorded at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo at Mission Bay...
Ewaso Lions · Shivani Bhalla · Expo 2014
Shivani Bhalla started Ewaso Lions seven years ago to save lion in Kenya's northern lands. She works closely with Samburu Warriors—young men from the area—to create a culture of conservation...
Nancy & Stephen Grand Family House Slab Concrete Pour March 12, 2015
Nibbi Brothers Construction poured the ground floor concrete of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House at Mission Bay on March 12, 2015. The new Family House will open in Spring, 2016. Learn.
Cheetah Conservation Botswana · Rebecca Klein · Expo 2014
Speaker Rebecca Klein gives an overview of Cheetah Conservation Botswana, the non-governmental organization (NGO) she started to help protect the threatened cheetahs in one of their last ...
Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House Time Lapse - 11/14-2/15
Time Lapse video of the construction of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House at Mission Bay from November 2014 through February 2015. Learn more about the future of Family House at ...
Nancy & Stephen Grand Family House First Concrete Pour January 22, 2015
Nibbi Brothers Construction poured the first concrete for the foundation of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House at Mission Bay on January, 22, 2015. The new Family House will open in Spring,...
ProDelphinus (sea turtles) · Dr. Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto · Expo 2014
Dr. Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto shares her love of sea turtles and her determination to save them. She works with fishing communities in her native Peru to develop sustainable fisheries and protect...
Nancy & Stephen Grand Family House Shotcrete Concrete Day - March 26, 2015
Nibbi Brothers Construction poured the ground floor concrete of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House at Mission Bay on March 12, 2015. The new Family House will open in Spring, 2016. Learn.
Proyecto Tití · Rosamira Guillen · Expo 2014
Rosamira shares stories of her work saving Colombia's cutest little monkey in the forests of South America. Recorded at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo at Mission Bay Conference Center...
Charles Knowles · Wildlife Conservation Network · Expo 2014
Recorded at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on October 11, 2014.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Seals Stadium
Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 through 1959. Built during the depression, Seals Stadium opened on April 7, 1931, It cost $600,000 to construct, and Seals President "Doc" Strub described how laborers would leap onto the running boards of his automobile and beg for the opportunity to work on the project for $3 a day.
Union Iron Works
Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, on the southeast waterfront, was a central business within the large industrial zone of Potrero Point, for four decades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Anchor Brewing Company
Anchor Brewing Company is an American alcoholic beverage producer, operating a brewery and distillery on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California. The brewery was founded in 1896 and was purchased by Frederick Louis Maytag III, in 1965, saving it from closure. It moved to its current location in 1979. It is one of the last remaining breweries to produce California common beer, also known as Steam Beer, a trademark owned by the company.
M5 Industries
M5 Industries (M5i) is a special effects company located in San Francisco, California that once produced special effects props for commercials and film, stop motion animation, and animatronic puppets, such as those seen in James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas. They also extend into prototype development and various display projects.
The Farm (San Francisco)
The Farm, located at the corner of Army Street (later renamed Cesar Chavez) and Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, California, was a community center from 1974-1987. Adults and children would gather at The Farm across a park from Buena Vista Elementary School. Children from Buena Vista would visit The Farm for field trips or go to The Farm after school. The Farm had a two-story building; the lower story contained an actual farm, with vegetable gardens, chickens, geese, rabbits, and goats.
Mission Bay, San Francisco
Mission Bay is a 303-acre neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
Potrero Point
Potrero Point San Francisco is the location of the earliest and most important industrial facilities in the Western United States on the eastern extension of San Francisco's Potrero Hill, a natural land mass extending into San Francisco Bay south of Mission Bay. Potrero Point, the point of Potrero Hill, was systematically blasted and cut, its serpentine cliffs removed.
Potrero Hill, San Francisco
Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is known for its views of the San Francisco Bay and city skyline, its close proximity to many destination spots, its sunny weather, and for having two freeways and a Caltrain station. Initially a working-class neighborhood until gentrification in the 1990s, it is now an upper-middle-class family-oriented neighborhood.
Dogpatch, San Francisco
Dogpatch is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, roughly half industrial and half residential. It was initially a gritty working-class neighborhood, but has experienced rapid transformation since the 1990s. Now it boasts similar demographics to its neighboring Potrero Hill - an upper middle-class working professional neighborhood. Dogpatch was originally part of Potrero Nuevo and its history is closely tied to Potrero Hill.
Bottom of the Hill
Bottom of the Hill is a concert venue located in San Francisco, California, in the Potrero Hill district. As a venue, it is one of the most active in the city, usually holding shows seven nights a week. It has won the Readers' Poll Best Of The Bay award for Rock venue several times including the last 10 years in a row (as of 2012). It has been a live music venue since September 1991.
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center San Francisco Department of HealthGeographyLocation 1001 Potrero AveSan Francisco, California 94110, United StatesOrganizationCare system Medicaid, Medicare, PublicHospital type TeachingAffiliated university University of California, San FranciscoServicesEmergency department Level I trauma centerBeds 403 General Acute Care, 106 Acute Psychiatric, 59 Skilled Nursing Mental Health, 30 Skilled Nursing Med/SurgHistoryFounded 1850LinksWebsite http://www.
Million Fishes
is an incubation program in San Francisco, CA where emerging artist of visual art, filmmaking, choreography / dance, music, conceptual art, new media, interactive art, interarts, and writing can build the tools necessary to establish themselves as contributors of art. It is located at 2501 Bryant Street (at 23rd Street), San Francisco, CA.
Vermont Street (San Francisco)
Vermont Street is a north-south street located in the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is a part of a series of streets in the Potrero Hill district which are named after American states. It begins at Division Street near the South of Market area, and runs south, paralleling the U.S. Route 101 freeway. The street ends when it meets 22nd Street. A section of the street between 20th and 22nd Street, near McKinley Square, features a series of seven sharp turns.
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a contemporary art center in San Francisco, California, United States and part of the California College of the Arts. It was established in 1998 and serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary art and curatorial practise. It is regarded as one of the leading institutions for the presentation of contemporary art in the United States.
22nd Street (Caltrain station)
22nd. Street Station is a small commuter rail station on 22nd Street beneath the I-280 freeway in San Francisco, California. Like all other Caltrain stations except San Francisco 4th & King and San Jose Diridon, the station is unstaffed; tickets may be bought from ticket machines. In Southern Pacific days the station was called 23rd St, but its location hasn't changed.
Building 101 (San Francisco)
Building 101 is a building located at San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, designed by Frederick H. Meyer. The building was built after Bethlehem took control of the acreage once owned by Union Iron Works. This building is now abandoned and nearby BAE Systems run the docks that was once owned by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, which ran it as an administration building.
Pier 70, San Francisco
Pier 70 in San Francisco, California, is a historic pier in San Francisco's Potrero Point neighborhood. The pier still has its historic buildings, which housed Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's administrative offices and Union Iron Works, and is currently occupied by BAE Systems Ship Repair, which once housed the SS Oceanic (also known as the SS Independence) and Sims Group, a metal operator, and the Port of San Francisco currently has plans for redevelopment.
California Culinary Academy
The California Culinary Academy (CCA) is a private, for profit school, affiliate of Le Cordon Bleu, and is located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1977, the academy has trained more than 15,000 people for restaurant careers through its 30-week baking and pastry chef program and 16-month culinary arts degree program. It was purchased by Career Education Corporation in 1999.
UCSF Mission Bay Station
The UCSF Mission Bay Station also known as the Gene Friend Way station is a light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Third Street at South Street in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California. This station serves the hub of biotech in this district of the city.
Mariposa Station
The Mariposa Station is a light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Third Street at Mariposa Street in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California.
20th Street Station
The 20th Street Station is a light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Third Street at 20th Street in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California.
23rd Street (SF Muni station)
The 23rd Street Station is a light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Third Street at 23rd Street in Bayview, San Francisco, California.
Marin Street Station
The Marin Street Station is a light rail station of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro system located in the median of Third Street at Marin Street in Bayview, San Francisco, California.
GeoVector
GeoVector Corporation (originally named Criticom Corporation) began conducting research into augmented reality in early 1990s. The company, co-founded by John Ellenby who also founded laptop pioneer GRiD Systems Corporation, devised a method to use sensors in a device to associate relevant digital information with places on earth.
Irish Hill (San Francisco)
Irish Hill was a neighborhood in San Francisco near the intersection of 22nd Street and Illinois Avenue. It consisted of a population of about 800 people living in boarding houses, mostly working class Irish and their families, who worked in the nearby industrial area known as the Dogpatch. Irish Hill was the site of a major fire in 1887 and over the next few decades the area declined, and the hill itself was mostly excavated away, flattened and dumped into San Francisco Bay by the year 1918.