{"id":31032,"date":"2024-01-10T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31032"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:48:22","slug":"sf-2024-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/sf-2024-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"SF 2024: OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by\u00a0Sebastian<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0January 8, 2024 (BeyondChron.org)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue. Dec.25, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Christmas Day, drug addicts shot up and passed out on the trash-littered sidewalk along Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue, just across the street from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, SHC rang in the New Year by installing garden planters in front of their soccer field on Eddy Street between Gough and Laguna Streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sacred Heart Soccer Field. Jan.2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That location was a hot spot for homeless encampments<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sacred Heart Soccer Field before the garden planters were installed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco Urban Garden District<\/a> keeps expanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A block away from SHC, the view of Burger King on Van Ness Avenue is devastating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burger King, 819 Van Ness Avenue. Jan.2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote about their smashed windows<\/a> in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They fixed their windows but got smashed again and even tagged with graffiti a few days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this time, their drive-thru order glass window was also smashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s lawless. I called the Police but they didn\u2019t come. It\u2019s tough to run a business without any support from the City,\u201d a frustrated Burger King employee said to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the Burger King on Van Ness Avenue shutter next after the KFC on Duboce Avenue and Guerrero Street<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the street from Burger King, another store\u2019s window was also smashed recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tents in front of 850 Van Ness Ave. Jan. 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco voters I talked to share the same frustrations over homelessness, crime, and open-air drug markets in the City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They want change and to see their 3 major concerns get solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several have expressed their frustrations with the Mayor through open letters and even music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Ascaso, the owner of Le Marais Bakery and La Grande Creperie posted a letter on his Sanchez Street cafe window<\/a> expressing his frustrations on the lack of the City\u2019s support after several burglaries at his Noe Valley bakery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Chacas, Gump\u2019s chairman took a full page in the San Francisco Chronicle to run an open letter to San Francisco leadership <\/a>slamming the City\u2019s streets condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David L. Faigman, the chancellor and dean of UC College of the Law San Francisco wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> about public safety and the worsening condition of the Tenderloin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chino Yang, the owner of Kung Food restaurant\/a rapper made a diss track about Mayor London Breed and S.F. crime called \u201cSan Francisco Our Home\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But things only get worse in the first week of the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a way to start the new year with the bad news about the Webster Street Safeway closing<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community knew it was just a matter of time before the store closed due to rampant shoplifting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, it\u2019s the community that gets hurt by the store closing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have to go further away to do their grocery shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Webster Street Safeway is not the only store closing this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adidas<\/a> in San Francisco Centre Mall on Market Street is set to close on January 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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50% off Store Closing Sale at Adidas, 865 Market Street. Jan.6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hollister Co. in the mall also quietly closed on December 13, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shuttered Hollister Co., 865 Market Street. Jan 6, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on the bright sight, William-Sonoma in Union Square is not having a store-closing sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are staying for another year,\u201d a store employee told me when I visited the store on January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William-Sonoma was going to leave Union Square<\/a> this year and the building would become a Channel store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco voters are at their wits\u2019 end with the state of their city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They ask \u201cWhat will be the breaking point?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They demand law and order and change in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They want SF\u2019s wannabe mayors to read their lips: \u201cBusiness As Usual Has Not Served This City Well!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Sebastian\u00a0on\u00a0January 8, 2024 (BeyondChron.org) Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue. Dec.25, 2023 On Christmas Day, drug addicts shot up and passed out on the trash-littered sidewalk along Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue, just across the street from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School. Then, SHC… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31033,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31032\/revisions\/31033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}