San Francisco Theater District

There have been other posts discussing San Francisco theater. Usually, the sketchy neighborhood around the Golden Gate and Orpheum Theater is noted. I don't see a thread specifically about the issue, so wanted to start a new one, based on the article in today's Chronicle. Arts groups are amping up their voices about the city not doing more to clean up the area and make it safer for patrons -- and visitors and residents in general.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Arts-groups-decry-miserable-state-of-Mid-Market-12724787.php?t=65223a91e3

https://www.google.com/maps/place/SHN+Orpheum+Theatre/@37.7793674,-122.4168659,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085808e5211a1ef:0x2572614e49e2c2af!8m2!3d37.7793632!4d-122.4146772?hl=en

When I visited San Francisco for the first time in July 2001 (to see Patti LuPone in Sweeney Todd), I booked a hotel close to the Davies Symphony Hall on Market Street. I certainly noticed the riff raff, the homeless people who would ask for money. I never really felt unsafe, just annoyed. I may have been a first timer, but I knew better than to go to the streets west of Market, around the Orpheum. Since then, I have visited the city about seven times. I usually walked past that area and never encountered the problems as stated in the article.

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The Tenderloin is easily one of the worst places in the United States.

i wish i was more optimistic about some change occuring. our board of supervisors is completely spineless in addressing this issue and the leading candidate for mayor (pres of bd of sup) has paid little more than lip service.
if broadway of the 1980s can be cleaned up so can mid market area (one would assume) except sf is the city where political courage comes to die....

my strategy is take lyft or cab to and from theatre
i made the mistake of walking several blocks from golden gate theatre to my friends car in parking garage in tenderloin and it was truly frightening....

we still have great shows in town and there are ways to safely walk to act, curran and even the orpheum
you just need to plan your route and avoid the bad blocks