Uptown Tenderloin Historic District AdvancesRandy Shawbyline‚ Nov. 20‚ 2007By the summer of 2008, going “uptown” in San Francisco will mean heading to the Tenderloin. The “Uptown Tenderloin” is the authentic historic name for the over 16-block area north of Market Street, and nomination papers were filed last week with the state Office of Historic Preservation to create the “Uptown Tenderloin Historic District.” Noted architectural historian Michael Corbett prepared the papers on behalf of the applicant Tenderloin Housing Clinic (publisher of Beyond Chron). Corbett’s research uncovered a wealth of information about the neighborhood, none more important than its historically authentic name. And for a community long beset with a negative image, the “Uptown” label provides the positive identity consistent with both its jazzy past and its increasingly hopeful future. |