"San Franciscans seems to have just collectively abandoned downtown. Empty offices, empty retail, empty streets, seemingly no attempt to do anything new down there."
I live in the SFBA - quite close to downtown - and I am both optimistic and excited about the tumult, reorganization and rebirth that I predict.
Unlike Cleveland or Detroit or Baltimore, there is an unlimited supply of people who want to live and work in San Francisco and the entire residential and office market will "clear" - given the right price.
I predict an interesting and exciting (and gritty and scrappy) period in SF where artists and projects and spaces re-fill the city.
Remember: New Hack City[1] was not in Oakland or Fremont - it was in the center of downtown financial district - and it was only 20 years ago.
[1] Hacker space belonging to the l0pht / cdc family tree.
I live in the SFBA - quite close to downtown - and I am both optimistic and excited about the tumult, reorganization and rebirth that I predict.
Unlike Cleveland or Detroit or Baltimore, there is an unlimited supply of people who want to live and work in San Francisco and the entire residential and office market will "clear" - given the right price.
I predict an interesting and exciting (and gritty and scrappy) period in SF where artists and projects and spaces re-fill the city.
Remember: New Hack City[1] was not in Oakland or Fremont - it was in the center of downtown financial district - and it was only 20 years ago.
[1] Hacker space belonging to the l0pht / cdc family tree.