Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The boundaries are not very well defined, but it is generally considered to be the area around Hayes Street west from Fillmore Street (near Alamo Square) and to Gough, Franklin or Van Ness to the east. Northward and southward, it extends a few blocks away from Hayes Street in either direction. At one time the Central Freeway ran though the neighborhood, but it was closed and later demolished after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. As of 2005, a section of the freeway is being rebuilt to exit at Market Street, with a boulevard running north from the exit at Market Street, through the Hayes Valley along Octavia Street to Hayes Street.