The Bayview Merchants Association (BMA) was founded in 1925, when the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco 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 businesspeople came together in an effort to promote the merchants to the rest of San Francisco and to advocate for Bayview businesses to local government.
100 years later, the Bayview Merchants Association continues to be a driving force behind economic development in Bayview. Our Mission is to create a vibrant, safe and economically sustainable community by helping ALL Bayview businesses succeed.
Regular BMA membership is open to retail and wholesale merchants, commercial organizations, non-profit corporations, professional persons and business owners located in the area bounded by Cesar Chavez Street, US 101 and San Francisco Bay. Associate BMA membership is open to entities that have interests in the BMA area but are not located in its boundaries.