Tracking poop into the foyer?
Alarmed? In San Francisco? Morons.
The Pittsburgh Business Times just published an article about how tech companies are now shying away from Downtown.
One of the reasons given (and I am NOT making this up) is that young Millenial techies apparently don’t like having to share a building with guys who wear suits.
Wow. Here’s a company that puts safety concerns over being politically correct. San Francisco will have to figure out some way to fine them for this outrageous behavior.
I hate to be in the position of stereotyping groups - but wouldn’t it stand to reason that a lot of tech company employees (like Spotify’s) are millennials?
Isn’t this age group supposed to be tolerant of diversity of free expression? if so, they should feel right at home in downtown SF and embrace that diversity?
They strike me as typical liberal inner city NIMBY’s.
I saw Motorhead at the Warfield in 1983 - mid-Market was a lousy area even back then. Very close to downtown - it ought to be a multi-billion dollar office/entertainment zone. But when the Board of Supervisors is determined to single-handedly overthrow capitalism by turning your city into Calcutta, there is no way to gentrify it without spilling blood.
—times have changed—I lived at 1169 Market forty years ago and walked to work at Beale and Market—
—there was a panhandler or two about every block but they were of the meek type who would retreat quickly if you told them you knew where they could get job—
Not only a sh!th*le, but a dangerous sh!th*le.
What can a Swedish company in an internet based business achieve by being in San Francisco that they could not in some Swedish city or even some other US city? Is it proximity to VC money? Talent? Something else?
“The Swedish tech company leased three floors of office space in a 1922 building at 988 Market St. that includes the Warfield theater concert venue. “
Having made dozens of excursions to San Francisco in my youth and before its’ demise, I can tell you THAT neighborhood has always been full of junkies and whores of every stripe.
Even reaching back to to the beat era of the late 50s.
Whomever sold that property made a killing compared to its real worth.
Even though The Warfield was always a great music venue.
Now I venture no further in than the War Memorial Opera House, use valet parking then get out as quickly as possible. Maybe take a cab to Aliotos for dinner to watch the sunset over the Golden Gate before the show.
But I do not walk the streets. And I will not abandon this great city until I see her burned to the ground.
There’s a LOT of cops in San Francisco, but nobody knows what they do.
and there’s the smell from the piles of Obama/Nancy
Decades ago I worked in San Francisco for about a year. The city itself was beautiful, but quite a few of the inhabitants were already bizarre and twisted. I didn’t venture into Oakland due to crime. The situation there seems to have deteriorated. I am concerned that a former mayor of Bizarro World is now our state’s governor.
Guess Spotify got tired of spots on the sidewalk. They’re now looking for a better spot.
Guess Spotify got tired of spots on the sidewalk. They’re now looking for a better spot.