Westborough Way, South San Francisco

Nestled between Westborough Boulevard and Highway 280, Westborough Way is a quaint, middle-class community within the dense city of South San Francisco. It is firmly gripped in middle-class suburbia and is almost exclusively residential. The district is also a recent incorporated subdivision of the city with modern residential architecture and charming residential landscaping. All in all, its a step above the typical South San Francisco neighborhood.

As a whole, Westborough Way sits on a bit of an incline, but offers views of the distant San Francisco Bay. The district is made up of nice, two-story townhouses tightly clumped along orderly streets. Homes are mostly refurbished to look nicer than most homes within South San Francisco. They fit on nice, manicured front lawns and lay ground to wide streets curving around the hilly landscape. Larger homes are concentrated towards the western side of the neighborhood, while a new community is built at the end of Shannon Drive (with tall attractive homes scaling the hillside).

The district’s commercial quarters are a bit few and far between. It’s only close neighborhood shopping area lies at its northernmost tip and next to the Interstate 280 on-ramp. The area provides your basic household essential shopping, including a small market, a Walgreens, an electronics store and a couple ethnic cuisines. For outdoor recreation, the California Golf Club sits across Highway 280. The 18-hole golf course is only in use for members, but is one of the best around. As for young families, Westborough Middle School is within the neighborhood’s vicinity, while Monte Verde Elementary straddles the southern edge of the neighborhood.