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Winners and losers in Mid-Market Dolby deal
From the San Francisco Business Times: Sweet music to real estate investors TMG Partners and DivcoWest. Finance officials at the State Compensation Insurance Fund, however, must be feeling pretty...
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Is the preferred alternative for Folsom Street revamp ready for prime time?
If anything good can be said about the Central Corridor Plan, it might be that it gives us an opportunity to attach the final draft of the Folsom Street realignment into an environmental review study....
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How much tech can one city take?
By David Talbot San Francisco Magazine “… ever since his Twitter awakening, [Mayor Ed] Lee has been moving quickly to align his administration with the booming technology industry, shrugging off...
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Tech industry posts “soft-sell” pitch for Gross Receipts Tax ballot measure
The San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (also known as “sf.citi”) has posted a video that shows proposed tech solutions to make San Francisco “smarter.” The video also...
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No on Proposition B – Reform is Needed at San Francisco’s Recreation and...
By JAMIE WHITAKER www.rinconhillsf.org “Recreation and Parks refuses to take the donation of a new park at 333 Harrison Street from Oz Erickson’s Emerald Fund because they refuse to maintain it at...
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Fair Play for SoMa – Why I Voted No on Prop B
Published on Nov. 1, 2012 by jamiewhitaker I want to share with SoMa neighbors why I believe Proposition B, the parks bond, is a bad deal for SoMa and perpetuates the exploitation and neglect of SoMa...
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Folsom Fair returns to normal (schedule) this year
The Folsom Street Fair was once timed to coincide with the Autumnal Equinox. However, since 1993 the fair’s date came to be associated with the last Sunday in September. In 2012, the fair was moved to...
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Proposal to raze I-280 linked to train and real estate deals
by STEVEN T. JONES San Francisco Bay Guardian It’s a bold idea, discussed for years behind closed doors and recently announced in a strangely understated and pro-growth way: Tear down the last mile of...
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Planning Commission votes down Orchard Supply Hardware
By a 5-2 vote, the Planning Commission voted against the formula retail application of Orchard Supply Hardware to put a 33,000 square foot store at 975 Bryant Street. National chain stores are...
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Central Market CBD coming to a neighborhood near you?
The Central Market Community Benefit District (CMCBD) is getting ready to renew and possibly expand its neighborhood services in the greater Central Market and SoMa area. The CBD promises to create a...
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Video for folks who don’t think PDR* fits into their San Francisco
from JAMIE WHITAKER There are manufacturers who actually “make stuff” other than software in San Francisco. Who would’ve thought?!? Click here to watch. * PDR = Production, distribution and repair,...
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Purple building looks like toast
by JIM MEKO An early morning fire this past Sunday did to the so-called purple building on 11th Street what years of controversy failed to do. Once the target of anti-residential zeal, the...
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Putting together the pieces to land Lucas Museum at Lot 330
from LAWRENCE STOKUS South Beach gadfly UPDATE: The Windy City beat out other cities, including a contentious battle against San Francisco, winning the bid to build an interactive museum for “Star...
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Is it open season on Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR)?
from BRIAN WALLACE Is it ‘Open Season’ on Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) in SoMa? Especially active, vibrant small businesses that help dented cars look good, replace broken car windows (no...
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Drone startup set to launch on Bryant Street
Founded in 2010 in Newport Beach, California, last month Airware picked up another $25 million to help ease them into their new corporate headquarters at 1045 Bryant Street, formerly the home of...
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Kim protects PDR (at least until the November election)
by JIM MEKO Supervisor Jane Kim followed through with her promise to the Flower Mart workers by introducing Interim Controls on Tuesday that would slow down the conversion of PDR (production,...
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Tax-break tech hiring a bust in Tenderloin
Positions to date: 1 full-time, 5 summer interns from the CENTRAL CITY EXTRA When the Twitter tax break was signed, the mayor’s office had high hopes that the expanding technology boom would explode...
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Developers Aren’t Going to Solve the Housing Crisis in San Francisco
by DYAN RUIZ and JOSEPH SMOOKE from [people. power. media] [people. power. media] is an independent media channel focused on the perspectives of grassroots organizations and marginalized communities...
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