"How condo developments helped spur a renaissance in SoMa"

San Francisco Chronicle, Real Estate | January 24, 2010

Since its first condominium projects emerged in the late 1980s, perhaps no neighborhood in San Francisco has seen such a dramatic tranSFormation as the South of Market (SoMa) district. In a span of roughly two decades, it went from being the part of town where you’d fear being alone after dark to being one of the most in-demand locales in the Bay Area.

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"Fun fact: The average cost of a studio apartment in San Francisco in the mid 1920’s was the equivalent of $1,620 a month in 2010 dollars."

Living Downtown, The History of Residential Hotels in the United States, Paul Groth, University of California Press | January 1, 2010

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