Bay Area's Booming Mission Bay Life Sciences Community

Longtime San Franciscans may remember the Mission Bay neighborhood, located on the southern end of the city, as the home to one of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company’s railyards. Trains ran in and out of the railyard for nearly 100 years until the 1990s.

That part of the area’s history might seem strange, though, to the influx of scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs who have migrated to the Golden Gate City in recent decades.

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