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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I am not going there.
SF is due for another “big one” in the next few decades.
While many modern buildings may survive most of the city is still a death-trap in a major quake.
It is hilarious when leftists in San Francisco talk about “sustainable development” while they live adjacent to a major earthquake fault line.
If you have to resort to “hey, we aint as bad as when we were a smoking ruin after the earthquake” you are probably a failure as a mayor.
Not OK if you own property or a business there....buy F' em, right London?
Yep, keep lowering that bar.
bttt
Damn she’s dumb. The population of everywhere in the US (especially in an important port city) was increasing over the next 100 years, so of course it recovered.
Office space is going to get really cheap, or they’re going to have to offer some ridiculous sweetheart incentives to fill them.
That should be her next campaign slogan. Hey it’s not as bad as after the earthquake.
[[San Francisco was in far worse shape after the 1906 earthquake]]
yeah but back then, insanity didn’t reign Supreme in liberals areas quite like it does today. Everyone was able to work together and rebuild. So,etching that seems impossible today
But the human feces will remain.
Not as dumb as her voters.
San Franshithole.
Yup, and the earthquake was a natural disaster. The one you have now is man/woman/it-made.
If you can’t see that difference you are dumber than Goober Pyle and both Bevis and Butthead.
Ha ha, it’s so bad she has to compare it to the 1907 earthquake to find a worse time. What a moron loser.
How do we know the voters actually voted for this?
Wow—declaring victory because SanFran isn’t the ash heap which followed the Great Earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906. The mayor sets a very low bar for success.
not while democrats are in charge!
The idiot mayor is conflating damage from an earthquake with the decay resulting from moral rot and economic decline caused by businesses fleeing a place that is no longer an attractive or safe place to operate a business.
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