Meanwhile, in June of 2023:
Posted on 08/16/2023 10:29:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The owner of a luxury San Francisco department store took out a full-page ad to bash the city’s leadership — warning that rampant homelessness and drug abuse could force it to shut up shop after 166 years.
“Gump’s has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years,” John Chachas wrote in his open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
“Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of the profound erosion of this city’s conditions.”
The letter in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday suggested that some of the Golden City’s woes come from “advising people to abandon their offices” during the pandemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They can move ?
> rampant homelessness and drug abuse could force it to shut up shop after 166 years <
I think they should hang in there. Once California’s high speed rail reaches San Francisco, all will be well.
weird
and they just keep voting for it
Momma always said "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
The city will have a tax base of federal and state government workers, all working remotely from home, (wink, wink) for their own safety. The rest will have to count on Snake Pliskin.
The injustice against small business and the middle class CAUSED By Our Government is stunning.
Very useful if Governor Hair Gel is the nominee.
Gumps is a wonderful store. So sad what is happening in SF. IMO, it’s all planned so that regular people leave abd World elites can buy it up cheap and live there without us riff raff.
You get what you voted for
Said what needed to be said. Take the loss, close the storefront and move. No one is forcing you to stay in nan land
I’m not so sure about that. After bouncing around as did the Legislature and Governor, the Supreme Court settled in San Francisco instead of the capital of Sacramento just over 150 years ago, and SF is still the seat of the judicial branch. Beyond that, SF has your usual number of state and federal workers you’d expect in a large city, but by no means is it a government town. The pillars of the economy are tourism, tech and retail, all of which are being hit very hard. The city lost $484 million dollars in tax revenue. Remote workers, most of whom can’t even afford to live in the city, aren’t going to rescue them
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/remote-work-reduced-s-f-s-taxes-484-million-18193946.php
Libtard policies
One party rule
Just say it
Gumps is a wonderful store. So sad what is happening in SF.
IMO, it’s all planned so that regular people leave and World elites can buy it up cheap and live there without us riff raff.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4175553/posts?page=11#11
#11 posted on 8/16/2023, 10:43:49 AM by vivenne
Those in charge are only amused by such protestations from an antiquated component of a society long, long since gone.
I didn’t know Gump’s was still open in the Bay Area at all.
I used to see one in Berkeley on Shattuck. Ave.
The name sounds a little dowdy, but the stores were very nice. Expensive home goods.
Question. How did he vote in the last election? I’ll await the answer before I get all misty.
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