San Francisco's neighborhoods have always been diverse, and the emerging Van Ness Corridor is a spectacular example. A recently completed renovation of City Hall, along with the magnificently renovated theatres and movie theatres of Van Ness, exist with some of the city's newest restaurants and oldest resident hotels. Van Ness houses the Louis M. Davies Symphony Hall, the Herbst Theater and the San Francisco Opera House.

The neighborhood also has The Great American Music Hall, site of legendary Grateful Dead concerts in the 70s, and a variety of businesses started by recent refugees from Southeast Asia.

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