Parkmerce, the largest neighborhood of apartment blocks west of the Mississippi River, is a planned neighborhood of high-rise apartment towers and low-rise garden apartments in southwestern San Francisco, California for middle income tenants. It contains 3,480 residences and over 8,000 residents, and is one of four remaining privately owned large scale garden apartment complexes in the United States.. The complex is located south of San Francisco State University (SFSU), west of 19th Avenue, and east of Lake Merced and the Harding Park Golf Club. The far western boundary of the neighborhood extends to the SFSU campus, and the neighborhood is popular with students and faculty there due to its close proximity.