It begins with San Francisco Street…
The southern area of Las Vegas known as Meadows Village had streets named after other major United States cities: New York, Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland, Cincinatti, Baltimore, and San Francisco! State Route 589 (SR 589), which is now known as Sahara, was originally known as San Francisco Avenue. It established the southernmost boundary of Las Vegas city limits. Other streets in county lands were named after the property owners or destinations of the streets. However, it became a trend for major streets to be re-named after the major casinos on their corners:
- Desert Inn Road was the first to usurp its original street name, _____
- Twain Ave became Sands.
- Bond (going to the Bond property) became Tropicana.
- Race Track Road became Riviera Boulevard. (And now that the Riv is demolished, it will be renamed Elvis Presley Way!)
- Ely Street become Hacienda.
- Monson Road became Dunes-Flamingo Road and later, just Flamingo.
- San Francisco became Sahara in the early 1960s.
- Interesting article: https://lasvegassun.com/news/1962/nov/15/where-i-stand/
(San) Francisco Park
Francisco Park began in 1954 with the first duplex tract. It was developed over a period of years, in multiple phases with additional subdivisions between 1956 and 1972… This was long after the Francisco street name had changed to Sahara around 1962. But the development had such success and received good will and good publicity, so the next ten years, developers Pardee Phillips continued to use the Francisco Park name that the populace knew and loved.
Francisco Park 1954
THE ORIGINAL ~ THE DUPLEXES
~ affectionately known as the highly desirable “Francisco Park Square” or Francisco Square for short.
East of Eastern and North of Sahara in the City of Las Vegas
Francisco Park #02 1956
Single Family Homes – East of 15th Street and north of Sahara in the City of Las Vegas
The remaining tracts all reside in Clark County
Francisco Park #03 1960
Single Family Homes – West of La Canada and South of Sahara
Francisco Park #04 1960
Single Family Homes – East of La Canada South of Sahara
Francisco Park #05 1961
Single Family Homes – West of Meteor Street
Francisco Park #06 1961
Single Family Homes -North and South sides of Vegas Valley and continuing South to La Serenada
Francisco Park #07 1962
Single Family Homes – South of Valley View along La Canada and just east
Francisco Park #08 1962
Single Family Homes – Between the utility corridor and Burnham south of Sahara.
Francisco Park #09 1962
Single Family Homes – Between the utility corridor and Burnham north of Vegas Valley.
Francisco Park #10 1963
Single Family Homes – Between the utility corridor and Burnham south of Vegas Valley.
Francisco Park #11 1963
Single Family Homes – Between the utility corridor and Burnham north of Golden Arrow.
Francisco Park #12a and 12b 1964
Single Family Homes – Between Burnham and Eastern roughly between Vegas Valley and Capistrano
Francisco Park #13a and 13b 1965
Single Family Homes – Between Burnham and Eastern between Capistrano and Golden Arrow
Francisco Park #14 1965
Single Family Homes – East of Eastern and South of Vegas Valley
Francisco Park #15 1965
Single Family Homes – South of Vegas Valley 1/2way between Eastern and McCleod
Francisco Park #16 19
Single Family Homes – Location unclear
Francisco Park #17 1967
Single Family Homes – North and South of Capistrano and East of Eastern
Francisco Park #18 1970
Single Family Homes – Short pocket of homes just off Eastern on Palora
Francisco Park #19 1968
Single Family Homes – Around Topaz and Capistrano
Francisco Park #20 1968
Single Family Homes – Inside pocket off of Capistrano with 2 cul-de-sacs
Francisco Park #21 1968
Single Family Homes – West of McCleod around Palora
Francisco Park #22 1968
Single Family Homes – Southwest of Vegas Valley and McCleod
Francisco Park #23 1969
Single Family Homes – East of McCleod – Between Vegas Valley and Palora
Francisco Park #24 1970
Single Family Homes – West of Mojave and south of Vegas Valley
Francisco Park #25 1971
Single Family Homes – West of Mohave and North of Palora
Francisco Park #26 19
Single Family Homes – Location unclear
Francisco Park #27 1969
Single Family Homes – Caruth and Golden Arrow
Francisco Park #28 1969
Single Family Homes – Pocket by Siesta and Caruth
Francisco Park #29 1971
Single Family Homes – North of Vegas Valley 1/2 way between Eastern and McCleod
Francisco Park #30 1972
Single Family Homes – East of Easter and South of Karen
Francisco Villas 1972
by the PARDEE PHILLIPS DEVELOPMENT CO – MultiFamily Residential High Density housing.
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Just south of the 1960s Francisco Park developments are the later iterations of Paradise Palms which recently became a Clark County Historical District!
http://www.paradisepalmslasvegas.com/
City Data:
http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Francisco-Park-Las-Vegas-NV.html