| Glen Park | |
| Style: | BART |
| Address: | 2901 Diamond Street |
| Borough: | San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates: | 37.7331°N -122.4338°W |
| Line: | BART M-Line |
| Structure: | Underground |
| Platform: | 1 island platform |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Parking: | 53 spaces |
| Bicycle: | 12 lockers |
| Accessible: | Yes |
| Architect: | Ernest Born Corlett & Spackman |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
Glen Park station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station is adjacent to San Jose Avenue and Interstate 280. The station is served by the Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines.
San Jose/Glen Park station on the Muni Metro J Church line is located nearby in the median of San Jose Avenue.
The station was designed by the firm of Corlett & Spackman and architect Ernest Born in the brutalist style.[1] Born also designed the graphics for the entire BART system. The BART Board approved the name "Glen Park" in December 1965.[2] Service began on November 5, 1973. The November 1974 Architectural Record wrote of the station:
Born designed a marble mural at the west end of the mezzanine. "100 pieces, few of which are cut at right angles, in warm brown and red-brown tones, make it up". The mural is prominently featured in a scene of the 2006 Will Smith film The Pursuit of Happyness.[3]
The station was nominated in 2019 to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4] [5] The Glen Park Association submitted the application, funded by a grant from San Francisco Heritage, whose president called the station "the best example of Brutalism in San Francisco, if not the entire Bay Area."[6]
, BART indicates "significant market, local support, and/or implementation barriers" that must be overcome to allow transit-oriented development on the surface parking lot at the station. Such development would not begin until at least the mid-2030s.[7]