2.3 Miles in Mission Bay

 

The last time I was in the Mission Bay area, it was a construction site.  It's exciting to see the medical campus completed now.  The sleek professional buildings line wide streets with safe sidewalks.  And the entire neighborhood is perfectly flat because the land was artificially filled in what long ago was a marshy bay (hence the name).  You can see a collection of historical images of this neighborhood HERE.  

 

I started this walk at the roundabout of Channel and Sixth Street along Huffaker Park.  It's a really lovely green space that looks across Mission Creek Channel for about four blocks.  

 

While Mission Bay has been developed as a medical and biotech research community, there are families with kids who live in this neighborhood.  I see online that there is a K-5 school being constructed.  In the meantime, the local children have a cool playground to enjoy.

If you look at the map of this neighborhood, you'll notice a strip of grass between the north and south lanes of Mission Bay Boulevard.  This strip of land did not go to waste.  One block of it has been turned into a food truck garden with a variety of trucks parked around an open space of picnic tables.

  Another block of it is a community garden.

Like my earlier walks around the City this visit, I walked large sections of it as the only pedestrian in sight.  Admittedly, I was wandering around in the mid-afternoon so I assume most of the residents were inside the buildings working but it was still spooky quiet at times.

Overall, I enjoyed this walk.  The sidewalks are wide, the roads are flat, the buildings are new and stylish.  The bonus is if you hurt yourself on this route, pretty much EVERYONE in the area is qualified to assist.  Which is good because as you'll see in my next walk, I actually did hurt myself in this neighborhood and I did need assistance. Ha!