As most readers already know, the entire western US has been dealing with a growing homeless problem for years. That problem has been exacerbated by a couple of court decisions issued by the 9th Circuit (whose decisions only apply to western states). The two decisions, Boise and Grants Pass, both found that municipalities do not […]
Yesterday I wrote about the announcement that Macys was closing about a third of its stores including the flagship store in San Francisco. What I tried to point out is that even if the closure of this store had more to do with corporate problems at Macys and a general trend toward online shopping which […]
The bad news is that San Francisco is losing yet another flagship retailer downtown. The good news is that this time they aren’t the only ones. Macy’s announced today that it will close about 30% of its outlets nationwide which works out to about 150 stores. Macy’s will close its flagship Union Square store, according […]
One of the fundamental jobs of local government is public safety. Usually that means funding a police force that is capable of dealing with whatever crime a city is facing. But progressive city supervisors in San Francisco, many of whom were fans of defunding the police just a few years ago, are now putting forward […]
As if San Francisco didn’t have enough problems with petty crimes, now the city is having to dismiss hundreds of cases which have dragged on for years thanks to the massive backlog created by the pandemic. It’s great news for everyone who was charged with a misdemeanor in 2020 or 2021. In May 2023, Brenda […]
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has joined an effort to rollback parts of Prop. 47, the law that raised the amount of money shoplifters could steal before being charged with a felony. Breed was joined by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan who also supports changing the law. They’re among a wave of Democrats this year […]
I feel like the stories that come out of San Francisco are frequently an embarrassment to the city, to its leaders and oftentimes to its residents who, let’s face it, voted for a lot of what they are getting. But this particular story reaches to the level of international embarrassment. Back in early 2020, just […]
Way back in October of 2022 I was both amused and dismayed by a story about San Francisco’s efforts to add a single small public bathroom to a spot called Noe Valley Town Square. It was amusing because despite already having run plumbing for a toilet the state was told it would cost $1.7 million […]
It’s not just the state of California that is facing a big budget deficit. San Francisco’s own projected deficit keeps growing. Just last month, Mayor London Breen announced she was looking for a 10% budget cut to deal with a projected deficit of $800 million. City budget officials have projected a deficit of $800 million […]
San Francisco ended 2023 with the highest commercial real estate vacancy rate in the city’s history. San Francisco’s amount of vacant office space has reached the highest level ever recorded in the city’s history. According to preliminary fourth quarter data provided by real estate brokerage CBRE, the city’s vacancy rate ticked up nearly 2 percentage […]
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