The $44 million Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens opened in 1993 in the burgeoning South of Market District on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets. Part of the 22-acre Yerba Buena Gardens development, the complex overlooks the Esplanade, a five-acre downtown park which includes terrace cafes, an outdoor performance area with lawn seating for 5,000, and a walk-through waterfall memorial dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King. It is devoted to showcasing art and artists from the multi-cultural community and features diverse programming in dance, theater, music, visual arts, films, installations, and festivals.
Scarcely 10 years ago, the area around San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center was little more than a patchwork of parking lots.
By January, 1995 upon the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Newsweek was calling it "the most concentrated arts district west of the Hudson River." After all, the new arts institution was joining the decades-in-the-making, multi-ethnic visual and performing arts complex, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which had opened atop the underground Moscone Convention Center North two years prior. The Cartoon Art Museum and California Historical Society soon followed.
Today, Yerba Buena Gardens is the lush, landscaped centerpiece of this culture hub. And the excitement continues to build. Surrounding this block-long greenbelt, construction continues at a breakneck pace in the 22-acre Yerba Buena Gardens mixed-use development.
Some of the other highlights include the Children's Center - an entire city block--dedicated to children and youth; Sony's Metreon Entertainment Complex; the Jewish Museum and its next door neighbor Mexican Museum across Mission Street from the Esplanade. There are also several major hotels.
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