Our History

In the 1970’s Esposto’s Market served the Bayview Hunters Point community at 5030 Third Street with fresh meat, groceries, and Italian staples. The market extended credit to its low-income patrons and it was a place to meet your neighbors and create new friendships. When the Market closed in the 1980’s, the space was then occupied by a former SF Sheriff Richard Hongisto who ran a security business downstairs. Then Boudreaux Café was next business to occupy the space. The Café dubbed as a curios provider and a thrift shop. When this business closed, the space inactive for nearly a decade and it was illegally occupied by squatters.

Earl Shaddix, Manager of the Third Street corridor, saw the space and had a vision to revitalize the space for community use, so he worked with the landlord to get the space ready.  In 2022, a group of community food activists, led by Cathy Davis, Executive Director of Bayview Senior Services and Geoffrea Morris, fierce community leader and Bayview Hunters Point Advocates were looking for a location for its new “Food Empowerment Market’ and thought 5030 would be ideal space for a market. Cathy with historical knowledge of the space, informed everyone that space was originally intent for a market and that the Food Empowerment Market would be restoring it to its original intent. In September of 2022, Bayview Senior Services signed the lease for the space and shortly after MWH Webcor became the general contractor for the project.

The market name was change to the “District 10 Community Market” and it opened its doors to the public on June 4, 2024.