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Area Surrounding Levi's Stadium to be Renamed San Francisco (xpost from CA group)
http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/7372-area-surrounding-levis-stadium-to-be-renamed-san-franciscoSuper Bowl 50—or Super Bowl L, for more orthodox fans—is less than two weeks away. The gridiron finale takes place in our beloved Bay Area this year at Levi’s Stadium, and everyone is getting pretty excited around these parts. The switch to Arabic numerals, despite security concerns, is jarring. But there is something even more disturbing about this year’s promotional materials.
Everything about the information above suggests that the event is taking place in San Francisco. Similar issues have come up with fans of the 49ers, some of whom only recently discovered where Levi’s Stadium actually is—in Santa Clara. Perhaps it’s cute that the 49ers play 49 miles away from downtown San Francisco, but visiting football fans may not have been thrilled to find out that the Super Bowl, for which they paid over $4,000 to attend, is closer to the Cisco campus than the Golden Gate Bridge.
In light of complaints, a local organization, the Santa Clara Association of Merchants, has drawn up plans to reincorporate the area within a half-mile radius of Levi’s Stadium as a new city called San Francisco. It wouldn’t be the first time a state has more than one city by the same name. As committee chair Brian Johnson explains, “We’ve always dreamed of having the Super Bowl in San Francisco, and soon that dream will be a reality.”...
Local opponents of the plan say that having a second San Francisco will be confusing and deceptive. “Uh, yeah, that’s kind of the point,” says Johnson. But the reincorporation, which is expected to be approved by the County of Santa Clara, has been mostly met with support from local homeowners, who expect property values to skyrocket once their properties are located within San Francisco city limits.
Everything about the information above suggests that the event is taking place in San Francisco. Similar issues have come up with fans of the 49ers, some of whom only recently discovered where Levi’s Stadium actually is—in Santa Clara. Perhaps it’s cute that the 49ers play 49 miles away from downtown San Francisco, but visiting football fans may not have been thrilled to find out that the Super Bowl, for which they paid over $4,000 to attend, is closer to the Cisco campus than the Golden Gate Bridge.
In light of complaints, a local organization, the Santa Clara Association of Merchants, has drawn up plans to reincorporate the area within a half-mile radius of Levi’s Stadium as a new city called San Francisco. It wouldn’t be the first time a state has more than one city by the same name. As committee chair Brian Johnson explains, “We’ve always dreamed of having the Super Bowl in San Francisco, and soon that dream will be a reality.”...
Local opponents of the plan say that having a second San Francisco will be confusing and deceptive. “Uh, yeah, that’s kind of the point,” says Johnson. But the reincorporation, which is expected to be approved by the County of Santa Clara, has been mostly met with support from local homeowners, who expect property values to skyrocket once their properties are located within San Francisco city limits.
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Its main drag, El Camino Real, is lined with no-tell motels and similar downmarket establishments, although I did enjoy an excellent Bosnian lunch there once. 
You notice the difference immediately when you cross into Sunnyvale: all of a sudden there's landscaping, stores with signs from this century, and so on.
