Bayview’s merchant voice

A century of advocating for local businesses in our neighborhood.

The Bayview Merchants Association was founded in 1925, when the neighborhood was known to locals as “Butchertown” because of the high density of slaughterhouses in the area. The population was small, but a group of committed business people came together in an effort to promote the merchants to the rest of San Francisco and to advocate for Bayview businesses to the local government.

Evans from Third, 1929

Bayview, 1944

Today, BMA continues its tradition as a powerful voice for local businesses in the Bayview. Bolstered by the 2005 opening of MUNI’s T line 3rd Street light rail, the development at the Hunters Point Shipyard and hundreds of other smaller-scale projects, Bayview is undergoing an economic renaissance – and BMA is working hard to ensure that its members benefit from the neighborhood’s rapid growth.