Built by the community.
To serve the community.
Park in the heart of Chinatown.
A community-owned garage at 733 Kearny Street, steps from Portsmouth Square, the living room of Chinatown.
Plan your visit
Everything you need before you arrive.
Straightforward rates, no surprises, and validation at participating Chinatown merchants.
Rates
- Hourly$4 / hr
- Evening flat (enter after 5pm, exit by close)$8
- Daily maximum$38
Shopping in Chinatown? Your parking can be discounted.
Chinatown businesses across the neighborhood take part in our validation program. So if you visit a participating spot, like R&G Lounge, you can take $5 off your parking. It works in three steps:
- Keep your paper ticketTake the ticket you pull at entry with you.
- Ask the business to validate itWhile you shop or dine at a participating merchant, hand them your ticket and they’ll validate it.
- Show it at the exitInsert the validated ticket when you leave to get $5 off.
One validation per entry. Bring the physical ticket, a receipt won’t work. See all participating merchants →
Your base in Chinatown
Park once, explore Chinatown on foot.
We sit at the center of Chinatown, one block from Grant Avenue, so the neighborhood’s shops and restaurants are a short walk from the elevator. Leave the car with us and see Chinatown the way it’s meant to be seen. Read the full walking guide.
The Dragon Gate
Chinatown’s iconic entrance at Grant Avenue and Bush Street, about a five-minute walk south.
Grant Avenue
The oldest street in Chinatown, one block west, lined with shops, tea, herbs, and red lanterns.
Dim sum & dining
Chinatown’s tables are minutes from the elevator. Sam Wo for congee and rice noodle rolls, R&G Lounge for salt and pepper crab, Lion’s Den for a drink after. All three validate your parking; at Sam Wo, with a $45 minimum.
Ross Alley
One of Chinatown’s historic lanes and home to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, a few blocks up.
Chinatown murals
Start with “A Chinatown Dream” inside the garage, then find more color throughout the neighborhood.
Portsmouth Square
The plaza where San Francisco began sits directly above us. It’s closed while the City rebuilds it, and the garage stays open throughout. What the renovation means for parking.
More than a garage
Built by the community. To serve the community.
We were founded in 1962 with seed money raised by the Chinatown business community. Sixty years on, we’re still a nonprofit, reinvesting in the neighborhood through community sponsorships, cultural projects, and the public square above us.
The “A Chinatown Dream” Mural
Artist Nancy Mora’s tribute to lion dancers and Lunar New Year, gifted for our 60th anniversary and unveiled in 2023 on the Kearny Street level.
Nancy Lim-Yee Community Fund
Our community engagement fund supports Chinatown organizations and cultural programming across the neighborhood.
Portsmouth Square, above us
The “living room” of Chinatown, tai chi, chess, and gathering, sits directly atop the garage, reachable by our elevator.
Est. 1962
Six decades under the heart of Chinatown.
In the 1950s, Portsmouth Square was a neglected corner of a struggling neighborhood. The garage was built to help revive it, funded not by a corporation, but by Chinatown’s own merchants.
Today the square above is one of the most beloved public spaces in San Francisco, and the garage remains a nonprofit governed under the City, still serving the community that dreamed it up.
Read our full history