Our Mission
• To support the economic development of the recently rezoned, former industrial areas of the Northeast Mission, the Central Waterfront, and Showplace Square.
• To improve the livability of our neighborhoods.
• To collect and organize accurate, up-to-date information on all property, land uses, businesses and employment within the CBD boundaries.
• To create a strategic, place-based economic development plan and marketing effort focused on branding our neighborhoods and actively recruiting new businesses to them.
• To provide a single point of contact for neighborhood stakeholders and a unified voice at City Hall and with state and federal agencies to advance our shared needs.
• To present a coherent external identity to the rest of the City, region and world.
Who Are We?
We are a group of small business owners and employees, residents, and property owners who live and/or work in the three neighborhoods described above. As part of the recently adopted Eastern Neighborhoods (EN) Plan, the majority of our three neighborhoods were rezoned to Production Distribution & Repair (PDR-1) and Urban Mixed Use (UMU).
In addition to the newly adopted PDR-1 and UMU zoning, each of our three neighborhoods share a unifying set of physical qualities that differentiates us from our more residential counterparts elsewhere in the EN. All three areas are graced by legacy manufacturing and industrial buildings that once housed traditional industrial concerns but now contain an eclectic mix of "hybrid" light industrial uses, small offices and entrepreneurial businesses, including product design, distribution, furniture showrooms, fine arts and theater, digital arts, green construction and artisanal manufacturing. This diverse, commercial mix is enhanced by pockets of historic and new residential and live-work buildings, in addition to locally-owned neighborhood-serving retail establishments.
We are working to create a the PACE-SF Community Benefits District (CBD) that will work on behalf of all the stakeholders in our neighborhood to brand our neighborhoods, promote economic development, create and retain jobs, and proactively bring new businesses into the area.
And we are asking you to join us.
