Sixty years ago this week, officials opened the Embarcadero Freeway. While never beloved — The Chronicle’s editorial board called for the “foolish freeway” to be demolished only six months in — it ...

Mayor London Breed wants to turn a concrete Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco into a 5-acre park in front of the Ferry Building, with the help of BXP and local businesses. The mayor will introduce ...

Vaillancourt Fountain came back to life this week, and it was not a pretty sight. But the watery show on the Embarcadero was a treat nonetheless — one that demonstrates why this long-scorned public ...

The Embarcadero Freeway once cut San Francisco off from its own waterfront. This video explains why the city chose to demolish it instead of rebuild. The decision reshaped urban planning nationwide.

The Port of San Francisco has revived a 5-year-old proposal to build a three-level underground parking garage on the central waterfront along the Embarcadero. Citing the loss of about 1,200 parking ...

The Loma Prieta earthquake left the Embarcadero Freeway and Central Freeway standing, but helped make the case for tearing them down. "I think since the Loma Prieta earthquake, we have learned that we ...

Seven years ago, many a San Franciscan watched with mounting wrath as a new, three-lane elevated highway bulldozed across Market Street, visually cutting in half the cherished, campanile-like Ferry ...