Park Merced, San Francisco, California
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Park Merced is a neighborhood and large apartment complex in San Francisco, California. It is located south of San Francisco State University, west of 19th Avenue, and east of Lake Merced and the Harding Park Golf Club. The far western boundary of the complex is used as official housing for San Francisco State professors and students as the complex is popular with them as a whole. Construction on it started in the 1940s, but was halted because of World War II. It was completed in the 1950s and was a first home to many military families returning from the Korean War. Recently, it was owned by Leona Helmsley until it was sold in 2000. A sister complex was built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance group as postwar housing. The sister complex, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, California, features the same street layout as Park Merced in San Francisco.
[edit] Transportation
Bus service through Park Merced is primarily provided by Muni's 17 Parkmerced line, and peak hour service to and from Balboa Park Station is provided by the 88 line. Additionally, bus lines 28, 28L and 29 and the Muni Metro M Oceanview line all run on 19th Avenue and bus line 18 runs on Lake Merced Boulevard.
