Skip to contentSan Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate…
Marin Mental Health Group Hosting Estate Planning MeetingPatch.comA Marin County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness will host a meeting next week on estate planning for family members suffering from mental illness. The meeting will feature a presentation by San Francisco attorney Baron L. Miller, who … and more »
This week’s People of Note includes the following markets: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco and South Bay. LOS ANGELES Griffin Capital Taps Sales Veteran as Pres. of Capital Markets By Laurie Forbes Griffin Capital Securities hired Jeffery Schwaber as president of capital markets … Read more
Salesforce.com took more office space in San Francisco. The CRM software and cloud computing giant signed for 401,786 square feet at 50 Fremont St., a 41-story, 817,412-square-foot office tower. The lease will be complementary to the new 14-acre campus it will occupy in Mission Bay. The company leased the Class A office view space that … Read more