Posted on 12/20/2022 3:44:16 PM PST by Rummyfan
The coffee rush. The lunch rush. The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations. The lanyard-wearing visitors who crowded the sidewalks when a big conference was in town.
There was a time three years ago when a walk through downtown San Francisco was a picture of what it meant for a city to be economically successful. Take the five-minute jaunt from the office building at 140 New Montgomery Street to a line-out-the-door salad shop nearby.
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Yelp and Mixt had little more than proximity in common, which at that time was enough. Yelp was an idea that became billions of dollars in value on the internet. Mixt was a booming business serving lunchtime salads to the workers who traveled on electrified trains and skateboards to their jobs in downtown cubicles.
Their virtuous cycle of nearness, of new ideas becoming new companies, feeding other ideas that become other companies, was the template for urban growth. Businesses like Yelp took root in the high-energy, high-density city; chains like Mixt flourished alongside them as their workers ventured out for lunch. As downtowns have emptied out, their once-symbiotic relationship is coming undone.
“This area was always packed with people,” recalled Maria Cerros-Mercado, a Mixt manager who built her career in food service downtown. “People would get off the BART, buy coffee, buy this, buy that. There was always just so much walking.”
Today San Francisco has what is perhaps the most deserted major downtown in America. On any given week, office buildings are at about 40 percent of their prepandemic occupancy, while the vacancy rate has jumped to 24 percent from 5 percent since 2019. Occupancy of the city’s offices is roughly 7 percentage points below that of those in the average major American city...
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The crumbling infrastructure of liberal America
Gee, I wonder how this could have come to be?
Cause and effect.....alien ideas to the left
Working downtown was great in the 1990s. Montgomery and Market. Friday Happy hour at The Palace Hotel, Pied Piper bar $5 martinis with free buffet and then jazz at 7. A lifetime ago.
What’s going to happen to all the homeless without other people to mooch and steal from?
Stay tuned.
Lots of lipstick on a pig in this supposed “story.”
Deal with crime, keep taxes low and a city will grow. Something a child could understand.
Went through it in the seventies and eighties. It’ll change again
Mixt was a booming business serving lunchtime salads to the workers
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Just get a grouch to yell “No salad for you!” They will bounce right back.
But, but, but... drug addicts, homeless and sexual weirdos can still 'service' whatever 'elites' are left in that hellhole... and isn't that the point? Maybe Paul Pelosi can explain it ...
Many of those who have vacated SF have moved to Austin, Denver, OK City, Dallas/FtWorth, Little Rock, Nashville, etc...
Their voting patterns emptied SF. Their voting patterns will eventually bring the came emptiness to Austin, Denver, OK City, Dallas/FtWorth, Little Rock, Nashville, etc...
They do not change. They bring their leftist insanity with them. They try to make those new locations into the same kind of sh*tholes they vacated.
When have leftists ever ‘improved’ a city?
3S comes to the suburbs...
We lived there for a short time in 1979. Can’t even imagine what it’s like there now.
Good! Hey, San Fransickans, vote in communists like Pee-lousy and see what it gets you! San Fransicko and Lost Angeles need a 9.9 instead of a 6.1!
Sorry conservatives, flee to the interior, where it is more safe, sane and conservative! Leave the ‘woke’ socialists to their ‘Lot’. (Or is it ‘Lot’s wife’?)
“Working downtown was great in the 1990s.” True. I worked at Embarcadero 2 in downtown San Francisco in the 1990s. Very cool. Skateboaders, bike messengers, BMW’s, and suits everywhere. Sad how dumb, anti-Catholic leaders promoted themselves and wrecked the economy for patriots. My friend’s family owned a 100 year old elevator company in San Francisco and moved out in 2000 because of regulations. Last week there was a news story about hotels in San Francisco having problems with their elevators and guests grumbling about walking stairs for seven floors.
“What’s going to happen to all the homeless without other people to mooch and steal from?”
Just watch the first few episodes of “The Walking Dead” it will sort of give you an idea.
Pelosi and the liberals work is done!
Detroit comes to mind as to what is next.
That’s a dirty shame.😎
At the tail end of when America was still America.
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