The City and the Yerba Buena Community Benefits District have identified the Minna St and Natoma St corridors between the Transbay Transit Center and the Yerba Buena Gardens area as underutilized spaces and key pedestrian routes linking two civic nodes. The Minna Natoma Streetscape Project aims to activate and enliven these corridors by implementing streetscape improvements, pedestrian safety improvements, and public art.

The project will reconstruct portions of Minna St and Natoma St to create a vibrant and safe pedestrian connection between the Transbay Transit Center and the Yerba Beuna Gardens area. Infrastructure improvements include widened sidewalks, new pedestrian bulbouts and raised crosswalks, new mid-block traffic signals and crossings, and reconstructed roadways. In addition, through collaboration with local stakeholders, the project will include public art pieces, street furniture and lighting, new landscape, artistic pavement murals, and patterned concrete roadway to help create a vibrant and visually inviting pedestrian corridor, as well as a sense of neighborhood place.

The Minna Natoma Streetscape Project is part of the San Francisco Planning Department's South Downtown Design and Activation (Soda) Plan, which provides a framework for the design and implementation of public realm improvements in the neighborhood surrounding the new Transit Center and Rincon Hill. More information on the Soda Plan can be found on the Planning Department's website.

Project Outreach Events

• June 23, 2020 - Minna Natoma Streetscape Project Virtual Stakeholder Workshop #2. A video recording of the this workshop's presentation can be found here.
• July 31, 2019 - Minna Natoma Streetscape Project Stakeholder Workshop #1 - Presentation Slideshow
• Additional outreach event materials as well as information on previous Soda Plan outreach events can be found on the Planning Department's Soda Plan website.

Project Timeline

• Planning: Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
• Design: Fall 2020 - Fall 2023
• Bid/Award - Spring 2024 - Fall 2024
• Construction: Early 2025 - Late 2026