Newscopy: "BIG HOLE ON MARKET SOON--Market street is about to lose some of its prominent front teeth. Demolition contracts have been let by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency along the south side of Market between Third and Fourth streets for a number of buildings beginning with the Paris Theater and extending east along the block to a food store at 747-749 Market. Structures from 747 to 781 Market will be removed; all but one are now Redevelopment Agency properties."
Text continues: "Their removal is part of the $385 million Yerba Buena Center redevelopment project, a complex of convention and other commercial and recreational facilities. The land will be vacant for about two years. The redevelopment Agency was faced with the decision of leaving a hole or spending large amounts of money to shore up buildings destined to be razed. New underpinning would have been necessary because of below-surface work for an access pavilion connecting Yerba Buena Center with the Powell street subway station..."
