https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-breed-drug-crackdown-sheriff-18140952.php
Went to a comedy show at Great American Music Hall.
What a disaster of an area.
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Welcome to the Tenderloin!!!
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T&T Supermarket is good. I visited the one in Toronto. But do people know who was the founder? The same family that founded 99 Ranch. And the Bay Area is overrun with 99 Ranches.
Just because one Chinese supermarket chain expanded in Seattle means Seattle has better Chinese grocery than the Bay? C’mon now. Get real.
Get out of downtown and most important of all, Tenderloin, and experience SF the way locals do. I just had dinner on Chestnut Street up in Marina. Tons of people milling around at 8pm. Never seen so many white people in SF to be honest, and they all made a point of dressing up.
Out of DT, is there any difference from any other suburb?
Oh we usually hangout Marina / Sunset areas when we go into SF, totally different experience.
Problem is some “things to do” are really close / adjacent to these shit areas.
Vs other cities where they hide the homeless in some undesirable area that no one ever would think or have reason to go to. SF is different in this regard.
Look, the simple fact that all of the Stupidvisors and past/present Mayor don’t seem to get is that first and foremost, the Fab 7x7 is a tourist town. Always has been, always will be. If you accept that, you do not kill the golden goose. At all costs!!! Therefore, you DO NOT ALLOW the homeless to pitch their tents in for example in the Embarcadero or Fishermen’s Wharf areas. Various tourist spots should be teeming with armed cops. When I was in NY recently, cops everywhere!!! Bad publicity and word of mouth from tourists spread and you are essentially F’d. You move the homeless to some deserted spot in the Bay View or Hunters Point and take care of them there. They don’t like, tough sh*t…
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All will be true. AI will kill all humans living in SF.
Uh, if it got to that point it aint stopping with the Fab 7x7…
Again, this is not the first time that SF has been down for some reason. Be it huge earthquake or a crippling pandemic. Too much money and/or interests here for SF to fail. Last week, we apparently had 12K architects here for their annual convention. That is a start. We need to drum up convention business like we used to. Everything is on the table!!! We had the Escape From Alcatraz event this past weekend. We need to sell, sell, sell the Fab 7x7!!!
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I can sense the political wind shifting. We threw out Chesa and the bums at the school board last year. Support for the new DA has been consistently high. The reaction of her decision not to file charges against the Walgreens guard is very telling. There were some small protests here and there but nothing consequential happened. People in SF realized enough is enough. We need to be tough on crimes.
Next year’s election is very crucial. We need to elect some sensible people to replace Chan, Preston and Peskin, and keep Breed as mayor. I am fairly optimistic this can be done. The wind has shifted. The Asian American voters have awakened.
All the latest news seem to be “San Francisco Is The Place NOT To Be”. Chickens have come home to roost. I guess lots of homeless can be housed in SF now.
- “We have seen a significant decrease in total sales at San Francisco Centre from $455 million in 2019 to $298 million in Dec 2022 YTD, a period where Westfield Valley Fair in neighboring San Jose experienced a +66% increase in sales, URW’s California Flagships center’s sales increased by +26% and our overall US Flagship sales have increased by +23%.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/westfield-giving-san-francisco-mall-18148102.php
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Well, others say otherwise…
Downtown SF is not doing well. Everyone knows that. Now what.
The root cause of downtown trouble actually has a lot to do with the widespread WFH here. No need to go to office in downtown. Downtown also doesn’t have any housing. So if people don’t need to go to office there is no reason why anyone would go there. Yeah the crimes don’t help for sure.
But I think, if AI fulfills its promise, then every downtown in this country will sooner or later face similar problems. If a lot fewer people need to go to downtown for work, what are all these downtowns good for?
SF just reaches that point faster than all others because tech is savvy with remote work arrangements. Hopefully it will reach at the solutions faster too.
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IMHO, single large urban city DT will become smaller i.e. become a satellite DT. Satellite DTs and malls will become more popular.
Satellite DT = Mall + more high end restaurants + more high end hotels/motels + pubs + convention centers + town square
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SF downtown is hit particularly hard but other downtowns are not doing too well either. Seattle is only at 44% of previous traffic. Chicago 50%.
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Above list are all urban city DTs.
Yeah, a few weeks ago, I finally went to our Sales office on Montgomery/Pine for a team meeting and it was a ghost town. R&G Lounge was semi busy for a late lunch but foot traffic in the FD is just not there.
I keep bugging my boss about when are we going back to HQs, but he said we are exempt even though other departments like IT have gone back.
With or without AI, I am glad I am not a young punk whose career is just starting. You just may not have a job soon. If that happens to my nephews and nieces, Uncle Dragonboy will help them out.
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article #1 posting facts
article #2 posting Opportunity, i.e. possibility, i.e. IF.
Turning around politics and hence policies is like turning around a huge Oceanliner, it can’t happen fast EVEN IF WE ASSUME there is a genuine urge for change.
There’s another article in WSJ today, but I guess for everybody else SF is doing great.