An alley in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood that has its walls decorated by murals painted by military veterans has a new name — Veterans Alley.

The city’s Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday for the renaming of Shannon Street, an alley near Geary and Taylor streets a few blocks west from Union Square. The street became known for the mural project co-founded in 2011 by Amos Gregory, a U.S. Navy veteran from the Gulf War era.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.