SF Downtown
2024-03-08 18:45:03.64606+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Tired of the SF Downtown is dying stories when (1) downtown has always been dead (2) it was planned that way (3) most of the businesses complaining about crime and poor sales are simply not relevant (4) no SF resident goes downtown for fun or voluntarily (even me, and I'm only a mile away)
It's so easy to blame homeless people, when imho it's much clearer to blame poor planning and poor business people for most of it
RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Homeless people are not gathering in Union Square in great numbers. Have you seen the number of police cars there?
You can't build a downtown with little to no housing, fill it with bad restaurants, and then say no one's coming
No one was going to Macy's even pre-pandemic except tourists
I always had to explain to my European and Asian friends that American downtowns are not... downtowns you think of. SF downtown was already underwhelming before any of these breathless stories