Posted on 03/24/2011 10:23:12 AM PDT by SmithL
The battle over gentrification in the Tenderloin was fought in the 1980s.
The Tenderloin lost.
Today, looking at the shuttered restaurants and store fronts, wondering why there is no supermarket in the neighborhood and watching stores struggle, you wonder why it was so important to keep the place from changing.
Now the area - particularly the blighted strip of graffiti and plywood in Mid-Market - is getting a second chance. A vote by the Board of Supervisors could approve a deal to give the microblogging company Twitter and other companies that move to the area a six-year suspension of the city's payroll tax on new jobs. The deal could be the beginning of a revival.
Most cities would hold a ticker-tape parade.
San Francisco holds a protest, calling the deal an attack on the poor, a "corporate land grab" and a plan that will turn the area into a yuppified boutique community for dot.com millionaires.
This is all familiar stuff. But this isn't the '80s any more.
The idea that there is virtue in keeping the Tenderloin poor, grubby and underserved has passed. In fact, the Tenderloin looks like a great spot for some development, commerce and small businesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
That has to be the Gayest name for a area
City “Planning” always makes me chuckle because there is no evidence that carefully “planned” cities are any more prosperous and easy to get around in that ones that aren’t so heavily “planned”. If the SF City council wasn’t so busy “planning” then SF would likely be a much better place to live.
Maybe they should consider renaming the district?
Reducing taxes to encourage capitalism. Have these fiends no shame.
San Francisco is a pain to move around in.
They should have gone through on a highway plan years ago.
http://www.cahighways.org/maps-sf-fwy.html
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/sanfran.html
Local business owners are not so sure how tweet of a deal this is.. they feeel like they’re just along for the ride.. like a herd of goats to be milked. or sumthin’. .
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