Posted on 02/10/2023 8:35:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
During her annual state of the city address Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed proclaimed that the city's downtown, “as we know it,” is “not coming back.”
Still, Breed said the shift would not impede a broader economic recovery.
“You know what? That's OK,” Breed said. “Empty office buildings have fueled dire predictions about economic doom and screaming headlines about the death of downtown.”
Breed recounted how even though the city has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic state, downtown San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake.
“In 1907, downtown was mostly rubble and ash. That’s considerably worse than today’s shift in how people are working,” she said.
Breed’s remarks come after a recent study revealed that downtown San Francisco has sustained the weakest recovery from the coronavirus pandemic among major United States cities, reaching only 31% of its fall 2019 activity.
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It won’t be coming back with that attitude by its fearful leader.
“Office space is going to get really cheap”
It will largely be converted to residential, with say 30% of units having to be housing voucher priced.
The feckless will be asked to pay about $200/month for their units.
“ Breed recounted how even though the city has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic state, downtown San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake.”
In truth, it is far easier for a physically ruined city to be rebuilt by an industrious populace than it is to repair complete cultural and moral rot.
as we knew it
It was once a beautiful place, back in the 70s, but I wouldn’t go there, at gunpoint, now.
Used to enjoy that city but that was an age ago. The problem here isn’t, as the Dems continue to rationalize, the pandemic. And the difference between now and 1906 is that now the steps necessary to recover are blocked at every step by ideology and bureaucracy. This wasn’t a natural disaster, it was strictly manufactured by people who never learn and are more than willing to drag everyone around them down with them.
“In 1907, downtown was mostly rubble and ash. That’s considerably worse than today’s shift in how people are working,”
Insurance companies made a point of settling claims in gold—real money back in the day. And the idea of the city proposing to compensate victims of slavery (and there well could have been some in S.F. in 1906) would not have been entertained.
So yes, politically things are different now, but not in a good way.
Well, if that's your comparison....
I’m from Detroit. I was in downtown SF a few years back. It was zombie town. It was shocking. Within being there 1hr I’d witnessed people shooting up and was propositioned by a hooker in the pub.
So to say downtown Detroit is 1000% better is a real testament to how bad SF is....given, Detroit has come a long way but I was shocked.
An earthquake is an Act of God.
The current downtown disaster, we did to ourselves (collectively).
What’s happened to San Francisco is an Act of Satan.
Re #9, just wait for millennial towers to start falling apart before collapsing.
And it was all intentionally done. It’s a feature, not a bug to them. The US must fall.
Neither is Austin, the San Francisco of Texas ….the woke’s cancer is too far gone to cauterize the poison.
What an idiot
Not as dumb as her voters.
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It is not how many votes are cast but who counts the votes.
California is a one party state and the Democrat party counts the votes - they can not lose.
God still has people here though.
Office space is going to get really cheap, or they’re going to have to offer some ridiculous sweetheart incentives to fill them.
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Maybe Karen Bass can give London Breed some tips on turning that office space into housing for the homeless.
“In 1907, downtown was mostly rubble and ash.”
What a non sequitur. In 1907, urban civic life was quite civilized and families could live there. Beat cops kept the bums out. Taxes were low. Great civic works were being built all over the place: roads, bridges, railroads, communication lines, water and sewer systems. There was optimism everywhere that things were good and getting lots better. There was a can-do spirit from having conquered and settled the West in the previous 40 years (the frontier had “closed” just 17 years before). Law and order prevailed and justice was swift and sure. There was limitless opportunity.
Contrast that to today where urban civic life IS “rubble and ash.”
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