Downtown San Francisco might not be “back,” but it’s slowly getting there. At least, that’s the assessment of Mayor London Breed’s office, which unveiled a six-month update to its downtown recovery plan on Tuesday. The mayor highlighted a 38% increase in office attendance since 2022, the growth of artificial intelligence… Continue reading
The future of downtown is mixed-use. City leaders are addressing downtown’s high office-vacancy rate and a slew of retail closures with legislation that will eliminate the red tape of zoning and make it easier to convert vacant spaces into housing and event venues. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the… Continue reading
John King May 5, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Comments Turn back the clock to early 2021, when vaccines to contain COVID were reducing the palpable danger of being among other people, and it was reasonable to expect that the “new normal” would look pretty much like what came before. San Francisco’s Union Square shows how naive such… Continue reading
