Democrat and leftist policies are failing everywhere. No one is following American democrat lead. Notice Europe is following Texas and Florida when it comes to kids and sex changes
This is nonsense. First workers don't owe eateries their patronage. Your profit or the lack thereof is you6isn problem. Forcing workers to return to offices so eateries can stay in business sounds like communist central economic planning. We don't want that here. Forcing workers to return to office fulltime is bad management and bad for the planet. When management policies drives global warming and extinctions that is mismanagement. Success businesses create an environment where workers WANT to be there. You can't even force them to take a day. When people resist coming in you know you have a management problem, failure to inspire. One huge reason workers like working from home is they aren't paid enough for paid child care. Forcing workers to pay for something their salary doesn't cover that is the best reason for people to leave and that is if they don't choose quiet quitting. Some workers just hate wasting 3 hours commuting everyday. Again if you don't pay enough to motivate someone to spend 3 hrs to commute the families yours. For star performers mandatory return to office may be just what they need to push them into starting their own company. Interest rate is coming down. Timing can't be better. This is how once successful companies force their employees to start companies that end up eating their lunches. So be careful what you ask for
We caught Elon's act early here in the Bay Area. He hasn't paid rent since he walked in with that sink. Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations. It’s no secret that Twitter isn’t paying many of its bills, including the rent for its headquarters. That was rumored last fall, but became much more clear when the landlords sued the company in January.
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
London Breed should be voted out of office. SF business should never depend on office workers to revitalize downtown. We need tourists to come visit our city. With poor public safety reputation plowing SF and lack of action from city leaders, SF will not rebound until we have a new mayor who is competent and willing to clean house of city hall. Otherwise, we will suffer another 4 years of economic downturn with London Breed and some of these BOS still in office
I hope SF recovers. I would love to visit but won't when there's nothing to little to visit. Vacant buildings, rampant crime and dirty streets are not appealing.
Yea this doesn't make sense. The government here SPENDS money on vagrants and drug addicts that makes city less attractive but they would NOT SPEND money on money bringing people (i.e. business owners and tourists) . .........it's a simple math that just wont add up. The small tax breaks won't to jack crap. I will open restaurants in South Bay and some southern East Bay but why would I want to go to SF where the cost of running business is so high (permits, forced health insurance program). My restaurant servers that doesn't even need a high school education is making $90,000 with tips!!!! I couldn't even afford health insurance for the first 5 years of opening my business and I'm lucky my business is thriving now but SO MANY of my restaurant peers have lost everything and gone broke!!!! Why is the government trying to bring in more people who makes the city less attractive!!!!! Use our tax money on people who will make the city more attractive please!!!!
Wrong. Gavin Newsom was a businessman when he became mayor and he was as bad as all the rest. It was actually Ed Lee who courted Twitter by giving them tax breaks and other incentives. It only got worse after that. San Francisco was never meant to be corporate headquarters for billion dollar corporations. It's the corporations and corporate landlords that have ruined San Francisco. Politicians say whatever they have to to get elected but always end up doing what's in their own personal interests.
The Leftist activists are so smug with their ideals. Then reality slaps them in the face that you still need $$$ for a city to function. Well, people and companies are voting with their $$$ and their feet. YOUR IDEALS WERE WRONG (and not based in reality).
@@joesmith3590 Car manufacturing dropped in the US in general. I see tech being here for a while. Depending on if companies bring their employees back to work.
They eliminated all the parking spots... instead, miles and miles of a green lane that nobody uses...next to "NO PARKING ANYTIME" signs all over the place. And still they wonder why...
Yeah, parking is a pain, I moved to the peninsula and avoided the city. Keep your anti car policy and crime 😂. The crime group rarely go down this far.
@@bearmerica6668The cash app ceo wasn't even safe in SF and they expect regular people to just walk through the city like we're in Japan, it looks like a third world city.
remember when she kept saying that San Francisco has an "image problem" and it was all created by social media? I noticed that smirk on her face as well
Understandably so. Countless small and large businesses count on the foot traffic from employees getting a hair cut in their lunch break, dropping off their dry cleaning, or grabbing a quick bite or drink after work.
@@vitaAutLetum Yeah, but the only people who are able to do this are making six figures....THEY are out of touch with reality. Too many people don't have that luxury.
I was a Local 6 electrician in San Francsco for 36 years from 1982 to 2018 when i retired.. I'm not going to beat around the bush.. Gavin Newsome as Governor ruined California and London Breed as Mayor ruined San Francisco. When I retired in 2018, San Francisco was a beautiful city i was very proud of. After all, I was an electrician who helped build it...6 years later, SF is a disgusting crime ridden drug infested toilet bowl...
I think the best years of San Francisco were between 1998 and 2008 before I left the states. And yeah when Xi visited the city, Gavin didn't actually clean the streets. He just moved the drug addicts and low lifes to the Polk street and Tenderloin area. I miss the old days of San Francisco.
San Francisco was better in 2018, but let’s not over-romanticize it. I worked on Brannan. Plenty of glass from broken-in cars, homeless tents, and shady people on market street back then too.
@kennymichaelalanya7134 I think any time before the 2000s was great in S.F. It wasn't overcrowded yet and the Cow Palace was actually a cow palace. I was born in 64 I'm old enough to remember Playland, San Francisco Was a beautiful place to grow up it was in 2006, I finally had enough and moved away aswell. Unfortunately, I had to come back in 2023 Very sad what the so-called leadership has done to the city over the last couple of decades.
Remember when people used to play chess and sell goods there? Remember when there was a popular farmers market? And then they moved everything because of some hair brained scheme involving a shopping mall that never manifested?
There are still Farmers market on Thursdays between Mission and Valencia 22-23rd st. Bayshore has a farmers market as well which is open on the weekends . Just off 280 South Interstate.
@Truelib99Hobbes if a person can't afford the bus, I don't think that person is part of the working poor Truelib. The working poor makes between $50K to $75K.
@@kennymichaelalanya7134Most people who are minimum wage are making on average 19k-35k, well off from living comfortably in California which is 75k and rising while wages stagnate. Only someone who isn't in reality knows this.
Why would any company move to SF? Expensive, dirty, dangerous, unpopular. Its potential is great, but that doesn't matter with this mayor and local government.
San Francisco midtown, plagued with extreme high costs of housing which contributed to the homelessness and theft, Business owners can't afford to hire workers because of the high rents and high minimum wage that was implemented by the current legislature
One of the dumbest thing San Francisco did was shutting down Market Street to private vehicles. And now they want to shut down the Great Highway too! Insanity
Don't forget you are dealing with a city that did absolutely nothing to save the historic Fox theatre on Market street or Playland at the beach. This has been going on for many decades!!!!!!!
It wasn’t dumb Allowing drug use in the open was dumb. Bail law reform was dumb. Cars get in the way. The reason why those businesses are failing is due to all the other crap they did. Who is going to bike down market street just to get robbed?
If you don’t make things convenient for affluent people, it means you are doubling down on poverty. Why would anyone do that?! There would also be no money to run the government. Poor people depend on the affluent.
Look there are two ways to deal with this either you can dump tax incentives on companies and some will come back for the money OR you can enforce the law and make the city safe and companies / people will come back without bribery.
The city is not car friendly, i used to go downtown few times a month. After they close market street and removed lots of street parking. I just don't go downtown anymore.
Wait…so you lost $70M in taxes from X and now you wanna offer tax incentives to housing developers? I’m no politician or financier, but isn’t running a city at a deficit a bad thing?
more cars in a dense area is not a solution, make the streets safe, make public transportation safe. Muni is a joke because funding goes into pockets of unnecessary employees.
Wait a minute, I just saw a turkey on your network talking about this great come back with market halls, etc. Just more Bullshxt. The downtown area of SF is DEAD. It ain't coming back. Oh yeah, those high end watch stores that opened on post, I'm betting on the first break in.
I still remember the Fox theatre that use to sit right across the street. When San Francisco was a completely different city and had charm. The city was safe back then and people from all over the world came to visit. Sad what San Francisco has become. San Francisco needs a better mayor and local leaders who actually care about the city!!! 👍
@@ryanbarnes840 Stop blaming the tech companies and put the blame where it belongs, a city held hostage by far left activists and destroyed by their failed social and economic policies.
5th Ave and Michigan Ave are primarily known as shopping corridors. It’s comparing apples to oranges and saying the thing in common is “cars” is lazy journalism. Where is the relationship between mid market and these other examples? I don’t necessarily believe market being car free is the right answer but I haven’t heard any coherent argument about how bringing cars back will have any positive impact, because that is not what will save mid market
Not like there would be parking on market anyways. Nobody not going to mid market now is not going b/c they can't drive there lol they're not going b/c of all the homelessness, drugs, and crime.
lol market street used to be the shopping hub of SF till stupid politicians took away parking from market st in the early 2000’s. Nobody could rent a storefront there if they wanted until these politicians decided to ban cars. Who asked for this?
The city removed lots of street parking at that area. I used to go that area few times a month. Not after they close market street and removed parking. Car people will buy more than bicycle people.
@@timtam9673 based on what? You don't need cars on market lol when that still doesn't work and now you just have another loud, dangerous, car infested street people are gonna say that people aren't driving down there to shop b/c people are scared of their car getting broken into. Bikes and public transport have this one street. One damn street. There are soooo many streets people with cars can take to get somewhere downtown. Use one of those many many streets. It was never and has never been an issue for me if I wanted to drive downtown even if I would usually just use Bart and ride my scooter around down there.
Why the H*LL is it the job of office workers to support businesses in mid-market? Remote workers are supporting businesses WHERE THEY LIVE. Apparently SF thinks workers who don't live there should be forced to spend in the city...just because? During COVID lots of NEW businesses sprouted up in places where people suddenly were...their HOME communities. If its $15 for a freaking coffee and muffin and $40 for dinner...who can afford to spend that every day they commute on top of greed-flation driving costs up for gas, electricity, rent, food, etc???? Resentment, and lotsa brown bags and workers getting jumped by people outside is what they will get with forced RTO.
They voted for this, yes they did. I moved back to Texas during Covid and my business got the busiest ever in my career. Now they’ll try to reverse some policies when it shouldn’t haven’t gotten this bad. It is fun to watch the downfall.😂
I believe the Twitter Building is owned by the British Royal Family. It was far too over-built for the use it was used for recently. It was designed to be a huge furniture store that was opened right before World War II which closed it. If you need a beautiful building made to have heavy furnishings constantly moving around it, this could be the place for you.
That building had so many different Tennant's through the years. DN&E Walter company had one of the largest carpet stores there, and TWA airlines had a travel agency on the ground floor there on Market street. The old historic Fox theatre use to be right across the street!!!!!
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
I can see pros/cons for reopening all of Market St. to cars. But I feel strongly there needs to be safer, cheaper, and more parking options all over the city. Downtown isn't the only dying area. One really wonderful positive is that 4 hour zones have popped up where RVs used to park for weeks at a time. Those streets aren't loaded up with as much broken (stolen) bikes and garbage anymore.
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
@@starventuresounds like the issue is obvious then. Get rid of the drugs and bums and the area will magically become somewhere people want to go. Doesn't matter if it's on a train or a car that could easily just go up Mission.
@@timtam9673 cars were allowed for decades and the area was still a shithole. Allowing cars on market ain't gonna do a damn thing except make the area even worse. You wouldn't be allowed to park on market regardless. You would still have to take mission to go to a garage somewhere. The issue is the drugs, and bums, and crime, and dirtyness of the area. Not cars v bikes.
@@KuroshiKun yes, but I used to go there. There was a Virgin record , Blondie pizza at Power and Ellis. Now the close that area from car. I m not against bicycle. I Ride bike too. But let's share the street road
My gym is on the first floor and I go every week day. I haven't noticed any difference except maybe a bit fewer people having lunch outside in the alley common space. You never saw the X workers and I don't even notice fewer people at the gym. I never saw them not even on the train so how much did they contribute to the life of the area or the neighborhood.
It was a pit hole back when cars were allowed, so lack of cars is obviously not the problem. Even when Twitter was there, the street level was still very sketchy. Twitter had a phenomenally good cafe with a wide variety of cuisines, and employees didn't leave their building except to go home. (My old apartment is actually visible in the video.)
Glad ABC7 realizes that work from home is the new norm. Tech changed work. Salesforce & the mayor think doing "office theater" will bring back a vibrant downtown. This is not the case. The city needs to look at other real world examples.
It's not the new normal. What is going to happen is that companies will lay off many of their unproductive work from home employees. They will then hire new people with the intention to have them work in the office. And those companies that don't will generally become less competitive.
Half of the people that post comments here don't even live in the Bay Area and have nothing better to do than sit around and make comments on videos like this. Also, it's London Breed's fault this area has been a dump since the 1980s? People need to get a fucking grip.
I understand that managers can monitor their employees through their computer but it’s still not the same as working in the office. I loved working into the office and loved to interact with people face to face. Hire me! I enjoy living and working in SF.
I’ve stated that if government aren’t getting money in from taxes from rent they will figure a way to tax some other way. They’ll soon tax you from working in your own home. Oh you use your home 40% of the time for work, pay up😂
That area struggled just as much before, twitter has nothing to do with that. And the reason is fairly simple - it's one of the worst parts of the city. It's unpleasant to be there during the day, and it's outright terrifying in the evening. Also, bringing cars back to Market is a dumb idea. First - it'll be barely usable due to high volume of pedestrians and let's just say less than ideal intersections. Second - no one who understands anything about business can actually believe that you can get a meaningful boost in downtown customers from 1.5 parking spots that each store will get. And who'd want to park there anyway? You'd leave you car and it'd be bipped in 5 minutes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes - lazy reporting on Lyanne's part. Pedestrians make an area vibrant and business thriving. Not cars passing through or jockeying for what little street parking are available.
London Breed just doesn’t get it. We don’t want to go back to work 5 days a week. It’s her job to come up with fresh new ideas on how to revitalize downtown. Hint: Affordable Housing. Where are her ideas? Maybe she shouldn’t be so quick to condescend “this new generation” and instead listen to the ideas coming from us. No way she has my vote.
You charged me double for the price of the tires for my car I'm charged double for the price of gas that goes in my car I'm charged more than double for the food that goes in my body these are the things that people have to deal with when they drive back and forth to work and you wonder why remote work is so popular
Most of the scooters and bikes ride on the sidewalk, and, accordingly, are not registered. Bringing back cars will do nothing. There is no reason that anything will change if cars are allowed.
Yall start claiming our memes are political propaganda....while yall can't even handle kill tony in los Angeles without trying to harm people that just wanna watch comedy.... that's when we leave.
the real problem is the housing costs are too high. of rent was cheaper to a a people would move back to sf and fill the bars and restaurants and make it fun again but also, todays young people are not very much fun . they are dull. they do t really party or interact in person socially. this used to be a fun young party city. there new people are boring. you gotta make it cheap so the fun people can come back
Market Street is a mess. So many one ways, not car zones, etc. Nobody wants to go there unless they have to and it they park their cars there it'll get broken into!
you need to get rid of gavin newsom, you know this. he just keeps killing this state.
Activists have been allowed to push the agenda in the city for far too long.
Happy you have all the answers
They asked for an opportunity and were handed the keys to the bus. Turns out they have no idea how to drive in a straight line.
@@jerryaustin9115 What has he said that is factually incorrect?
Democrat and leftist policies are failing everywhere. No one is following American democrat lead.
Notice Europe is following Texas and Florida when it comes to kids and sex changes
No developer in their right mind is going to do business in San Francisco.
Why would companies be leaving? With rampant crime, drug use, homelessness, high costs, an inept government, what's not to like?
we don't need trans-haters. new companies are setting up here all the time
Don’t forget the 💩 all over the sidewalks
Crapifornia 😆🫵💙🐓💩
@@pondeifywhat, street fentanyl sales? 😂
@@jaycho6747 SF is more beautiful than your trailer park.....
@@pondeify Who said anything about trans-haters (other than you)?
Keep voting for same kind of politicians and expect different result. 🤷🏻♀️
The whole area is so ghetto. SF is completly changed and done due to incredibly weak leadership. So sick.
This is nonsense. First workers don't owe eateries their patronage. Your profit or the lack thereof is you6isn problem. Forcing workers to return to offices so eateries can stay in business sounds like communist central economic planning. We don't want that here. Forcing workers to return to office fulltime is bad management and bad for the planet. When management policies drives global warming and extinctions that is mismanagement. Success businesses create an environment where workers WANT to be there. You can't even force them to take a day. When people resist coming in you know you have a management problem, failure to inspire. One huge reason workers like working from home is they aren't paid enough for paid child care. Forcing workers to pay for something their salary doesn't cover that is the best reason for people to leave and that is if they don't choose quiet quitting. Some workers just hate wasting 3 hours commuting everyday. Again if you don't pay enough to motivate someone to spend 3 hrs to commute the families yours. For star performers mandatory return to office may be just what they need to push them into starting their own company. Interest rate is coming down. Timing can't be better. This is how once successful companies force their employees to start companies that end up eating their lunches. So be careful what you ask for
When your X leaves you and you miss her so bad 😢
I see what you did there ;-)
"All my Xs live in Texas."
No we don't........most SF is GLAD, e-lawn left.
We caught Elon's act early here in the Bay Area. He hasn't paid rent since he walked in with that sink. Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations. It’s no secret that Twitter isn’t paying many of its bills, including the rent for its headquarters. That was rumored last fall, but became much more clear when the landlords sued the company in January.
@@amirthephotographer: Not true.
Get ride of the crime 1st
Yes who wants to work downtown where they see poops, needles, homeless and worst get robbed or get car broken into.
Really ?
IKEA will leave too within a few years.
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
How can people shop there without their cars to haul their purchases?
San Francisco is like ABC. Both in the toilet.
Gavin Gruesome did this
London Breed should be voted out of office. SF business should never depend on office workers to revitalize downtown. We need tourists to come visit our city. With poor public safety reputation plowing SF and lack of action from city leaders, SF will not rebound until we have a new mayor who is competent and willing to clean house of city hall. Otherwise, we will suffer another 4 years of economic downturn with London Breed and some of these BOS still in office
But she is making the history, what’s not to love?!🤣
I hope SF recovers. I would love to visit but won't when there's nothing to little to visit. Vacant buildings, rampant crime and dirty streets are not appealing.
She makes me sick. Absolutely the worst mayor in SF history.
You know if rents were more affordable I think more people would come. It’s too expensive for all the literal crap and crime we put up with.
Yea this doesn't make sense. The government here SPENDS money on vagrants and drug addicts that makes city less attractive but they would NOT SPEND money on money bringing people (i.e. business owners and tourists) . .........it's a simple math that just wont add up. The small tax breaks won't to jack crap. I will open restaurants in South Bay and some southern East Bay but why would I want to go to SF where the cost of running business is so high (permits, forced health insurance program). My restaurant servers that doesn't even need a high school education is making $90,000 with tips!!!! I couldn't even afford health insurance for the first 5 years of opening my business and I'm lucky my business is thriving now but SO MANY of my restaurant peers have lost everything and gone broke!!!!
Why is the government trying to bring in more people who makes the city less attractive!!!!!
Use our tax money on people who will make the city more attractive please!!!!
They need a businessman in City Hall. London Breed needs to be voted out.
businessman.... ( like Trump ?) he went bankrupt #6 Times ....after inheriting $418 Million Freakin Dollars ...Ya that type of man...
Wrong. Gavin Newsom was a businessman when he became mayor and he was as bad as all the rest. It was actually Ed Lee who courted Twitter by giving them tax breaks and other incentives. It only got worse after that. San Francisco was never meant to be corporate headquarters for billion dollar corporations. It's the corporations and corporate landlords that have ruined San Francisco. Politicians say whatever they have to to get elected but always end up doing what's in their own personal interests.
She never had a job . Her first job was being political appointee by Willie brown. Same person who boosted Harris’s career for sleeping with him
Remember when everyone said it was fine if Elon left. Ha.
The Leftist activists are so smug with their ideals. Then reality slaps them in the face that you still need $$$ for a city to function. Well, people and companies are voting with their $$$ and their feet. YOUR IDEALS WERE WRONG (and not based in reality).
They'll be fine and eventually recover. Elon is not the end all be all.
@@WELVAS. that is what Detroit thought.
@@joesmith3590 Car manufacturing dropped in the US in general. I see tech being here for a while. Depending on if companies bring their employees back to work.
@@WELVAS. Elon makes 0 cars here this is twitter. lol. Leftist always got no idea.
If remote work has anything to do with this it’s small compared to the real issues
They eliminated all the parking spots... instead, miles and miles of a green lane that nobody uses...next to "NO PARKING ANYTIME" signs all over the place. And still they wonder why...
🎯
It's the Green Lane New Deal ;-)
Yeah, parking is a pain, I moved to the peninsula and avoided the city. Keep your anti car policy and crime 😂. The crime group rarely go down this far.
@@bearmerica6668The cash app ceo wasn't even safe in SF and they expect regular people to just walk through the city like we're in Japan, it looks like a third world city.
They thought shoppers would rather bike to downtown instead of driving.
They created a pedestrian only zone. Now all they need is pedestrians. Seems like the planners forgot about the law of unintended consequences.
2:14 She is a little condescending. This "new generation" loves the "work life balance." Obviously the mayor is unhappy and frustrated by this
She's out of touch with reality. People don't merely live to work. Plenty outside the "new generation" value work-life balance more than ever.
remember when she kept saying that San Francisco has an "image problem" and it was all created by social media? I noticed that smirk on her face as well
To be fair she has no idea what working is about and she's confused
Understandably so. Countless small and large businesses count on the foot traffic from employees getting a hair cut in their lunch break, dropping off their dry cleaning, or grabbing a quick bite or drink after work.
@@vitaAutLetum Yeah, but the only people who are able to do this are making six figures....THEY are out of touch with reality. Too many people don't have that luxury.
I was a Local 6 electrician in San Francsco for 36 years from 1982 to 2018 when i retired.. I'm not going to beat around the bush.. Gavin Newsome as Governor ruined California and London Breed as Mayor ruined San Francisco. When I retired in 2018, San Francisco was a beautiful city i was very proud of. After all, I was an electrician who helped build it...6 years later, SF is a disgusting crime ridden drug infested toilet bowl...
I think the best years of San Francisco were between 1998 and 2008 before I left the states. And yeah when Xi visited the city, Gavin didn't actually clean the streets. He just moved the drug addicts and low lifes to the Polk street and Tenderloin area. I miss the old days of San Francisco.
Actually started going to shit around 2015…
I left in 2018. There were so many signs way before then. But they voted the wrong party all the time so they have no clue so let’s watch with glee 😂
San Francisco was better in 2018, but let’s not over-romanticize it. I worked on Brannan. Plenty of glass from broken-in cars, homeless tents, and shady people on market street back then too.
@kennymichaelalanya7134
I think any time before the 2000s was great in S.F. It wasn't overcrowded yet and the Cow Palace was actually a cow palace. I was born in 64 I'm old enough to remember Playland, San Francisco Was a beautiful place to grow up it was in 2006, I finally had enough and moved away aswell. Unfortunately, I had to come back in 2023 Very sad what the so-called leadership has done to the city over the last couple of decades.
And maybe ....Fire Newsom ..no???
I worked in downtown San Francisco until 2012. It used to be thriving and now I hardly recognize it.
I remember the early years of 2000s and late 1990s. S.F. had a night life. Ashame what it' has become.
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 I know, I used to stay out to 2 AM and felt very safe.
@@timtebowfan628I used to stay out till 5am and felt safe 😂
Yeah I used to club and pee on the streets of San Francisco. Those were the days 😂.
Remember when people used to play chess and sell goods there? Remember when there was a popular farmers market? And then they moved everything because of some hair brained scheme involving a shopping mall that never manifested?
There are still Farmers market on Thursdays between Mission and Valencia 22-23rd st.
Bayshore has a farmers market as well which is open on the weekends . Just off 280 South Interstate.
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 Yeah I'm sure working poor in the TL have time to take a bus for two hours to buy carrots. Rich much?
@Truelib99Hobbes if a person can't afford the bus, I don't think that person is part of the working poor Truelib. The working poor makes between $50K to $75K.
@@kennymichaelalanya7134Most people who are minimum wage are making on average 19k-35k, well off from living comfortably in California which is 75k and rising while wages stagnate. Only someone who isn't in reality knows this.
Yeah London, work-life balance is the reason there are drug addicts all over the area 🙄
Why would any company move to SF? Expensive, dirty, dangerous, unpopular. Its potential is great, but that doesn't matter with this mayor and local government.
Continue voting for Democrats!
The tech HQ is in Palo Alto and San Jose. SF has been fooling itself for the past 10 years.
San Francisco midtown, plagued with extreme high costs of housing which contributed to the homelessness and theft,
Business owners can't afford to hire workers because of the high rents and high minimum wage that was implemented by the current legislature
One of the dumbest thing San Francisco did was shutting down Market Street to private vehicles. And now they want to shut down the Great Highway too! Insanity
Don't forget you are dealing with a city that did absolutely nothing to save the historic Fox theatre on Market street or Playland at the beach. This has been going on for many decades!!!!!!!
It wasn’t dumb
Allowing drug use in the open was dumb. Bail law reform was dumb.
Cars get in the way. The reason why those businesses are failing is due to all the other crap they did. Who is going to bike down market street just to get robbed?
I still drive my car on Market Street all the time.
Going car free is a better option
In America people prioritize their cars over their healthcare.
@@e.tezani3877 My car GETS ME TO MY HEALTHCARE you commie troll.
There's "life" in that area, it's just goes very slow because it's on Fentanyl.
So, the problem is the rampant drug dealing/using issue on Market... not the fact that you can't drive your Volvo straight into the new IKEA
If you don’t make things convenient for affluent people, it means you are doubling down on poverty. Why would anyone do that?! There would also be no money to run the government. Poor people depend on the affluent.
How the hell people going haul their IKEA purchases home? On a bike?😂😂😂
@@pytube777 This IKEA doesn't have a Warehouse - So, all your large purchases must be delivered - Keep on being ignorant
@@acideauxrivarda3352 ignorant is shopping there and taking the bus home.
Look there are two ways to deal with this either you can dump tax incentives on companies and some will come back for the money OR you can enforce the law and make the city safe and companies / people will come back without bribery.
I don't see how either of these are enough at this point. Too little too late. Many better and cheaper alternatives to SF now exist.
Vote out Breed. She's the problem.
You’ll just vote in another democrat and do another recall😂
Mayor London Broil. 😃👍
You keep voting for this. Live with it.
The city is not car friendly, i used to go downtown few times a month. After they close market street and removed lots of street parking. I just don't go downtown anymore.
The whole city is hostile to human existence.
It's still way TOO car friendly. Closing off commercial areas to car traffic has been a win for cities all over the world.
Wait…so you lost $70M in taxes from X and now you wanna offer tax incentives to housing developers? I’m no politician or financier, but isn’t running a city at a deficit a bad thing?
Allowing cars will only decrease the number of people even further.
Breed and those Woke incompetent supervisors need to be kicked out
more cars in a dense area is not a solution, make the streets safe, make public transportation safe. Muni is a joke because funding goes into pockets of unnecessary employees.
Gee, I wonder what could have happened. It's a mystery.
Wait a minute, I just saw a turkey on your network talking about this great come back with market halls, etc. Just more Bullshxt. The downtown area of SF is DEAD. It ain't coming back. Oh yeah, those high end watch stores that opened on post, I'm betting on the first break in.
I still remember the Fox theatre that use to sit right across the street. When San Francisco was a completely different city and had charm. The city was safe back then and people from all over the world came to visit. Sad what San Francisco has become. San Francisco needs a better mayor and local leaders who actually care about the city!!! 👍
You mean BEFORE the tech companies swooped in and gentrified and changed everything.
@@ryanbarnes840 Yes, way before that. When San Francisco was the envy of the world, and tourist loved coming there to visit!!!!! 👍🌉
@@ryanbarnes840 Stop blaming the tech companies and put the blame where it belongs, a city held hostage by far left activists and destroyed by their failed social and economic policies.
5th Ave and Michigan Ave are primarily known as shopping corridors. It’s comparing apples to oranges and saying the thing in common is “cars” is lazy journalism. Where is the relationship between mid market and these other examples? I don’t necessarily believe market being car free is the right answer but I haven’t heard any coherent argument about how bringing cars back will have any positive impact, because that is not what will save mid market
Not like there would be parking on market anyways. Nobody not going to mid market now is not going b/c they can't drive there lol they're not going b/c of all the homelessness, drugs, and crime.
lol market street used to be the shopping hub of SF till stupid politicians took away parking from market st in the early 2000’s. Nobody could rent a storefront there if they wanted until these politicians decided to ban cars. Who asked for this?
The city removed lots of street parking at that area. I used to go that area few times a month. Not after they close market street and removed parking. Car people will buy more than bicycle people.
@@timtam9673 based on what? You don't need cars on market lol when that still doesn't work and now you just have another loud, dangerous, car infested street people are gonna say that people aren't driving down there to shop b/c people are scared of their car getting broken into.
Bikes and public transport have this one street. One damn street. There are soooo many streets people with cars can take to get somewhere downtown. Use one of those many many streets. It was never and has never been an issue for me if I wanted to drive downtown even if I would usually just use Bart and ride my scooter around down there.
Why the H*LL is it the job of office workers to support businesses in mid-market? Remote workers are supporting businesses WHERE THEY LIVE. Apparently SF thinks workers who don't live there should be forced to spend in the city...just because? During COVID lots of NEW businesses sprouted up in places where people suddenly were...their HOME communities. If its $15 for a freaking coffee and muffin and $40 for dinner...who can afford to spend that every day they commute on top of greed-flation driving costs up for gas, electricity, rent, food, etc???? Resentment, and lotsa brown bags and workers getting jumped by people outside is what they will get with forced RTO.
Yo keep voting for this California you live with it, the effects will be seen in over a year from now from tax revenue
They voted for this, yes they did. I moved back to Texas during Covid and my business got the busiest ever in my career. Now they’ll try to reverse some policies when it shouldn’t haven’t gotten this bad. It is fun to watch the downfall.😂
I believe the Twitter Building is owned by the British Royal Family. It was far too over-built for the use it was used for recently. It was designed to be a huge furniture store that was opened right before World War II which closed it. If you need a beautiful building made to have heavy furnishings constantly moving around it, this could be the place for you.
That building had so many different Tennant's through the years. DN&E Walter company had one of the largest carpet stores there, and TWA airlines had a travel agency on the ground floor there on Market street. The old historic Fox theatre use to be right across the street!!!!!
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
So literally nobody will have an appropriate use for it. Gotcha.
Sfmta making it hard for cars in the city doesn’t help either
I can see pros/cons for reopening all of Market St. to cars. But I feel strongly there needs to be safer, cheaper, and more parking options all over the city. Downtown isn't the only dying area. One really wonderful positive is that 4 hour zones have popped up where RVs used to park for weeks at a time. Those streets aren't loaded up with as much broken (stolen) bikes and garbage anymore.
I thought the left because they didn't renew they're lease because its expensive
Elon Musk is 13.9 million dollars behind in his rent in S.F. Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
Why do I need to report to a building when I can do the work at home ? 🙄 Pay me more and then I’ll come in the office !
More cars will not improve anything!
Neither will more poop smeared trains.
@@starventuresounds like the issue is obvious then. Get rid of the drugs and bums and the area will magically become somewhere people want to go. Doesn't matter if it's on a train or a car that could easily just go up Mission.
Car people will shop more than bicycle people.
@@timtam9673 cars were allowed for decades and the area was still a shithole.
Allowing cars on market ain't gonna do a damn thing except make the area even worse. You wouldn't be allowed to park on market regardless. You would still have to take mission to go to a garage somewhere. The issue is the drugs, and bums, and crime, and dirtyness of the area. Not cars v bikes.
@@KuroshiKun yes, but I used to go there. There was a Virgin record , Blondie pizza at Power and Ellis. Now the close that area from car. I m not against bicycle. I Ride bike too. But let's share the street road
My gym is on the first floor and I go every week day. I haven't noticed any difference except maybe a bit fewer people having lunch outside in the alley common space. You never saw the X workers and I don't even notice fewer people at the gym. I never saw them not even on the train so how much did they contribute to the life of the area or the neighborhood.
Raise corporate taxes. That should help.
It was a pit hole back when cars were allowed, so lack of cars is obviously not the problem. Even when Twitter was there, the street level was still very sketchy. Twitter had a phenomenally good cafe with a wide variety of cuisines, and employees didn't leave their building except to go home. (My old apartment is actually visible in the video.)
Glad ABC7 realizes that work from home is the new norm. Tech changed work. Salesforce & the mayor think doing "office theater" will bring back a vibrant downtown. This is not the case. The city needs to look at other real world examples.
It's not the new normal. What is going to happen is that companies will lay off many of their unproductive work from home employees. They will then hire new people with the intention to have them work in the office. And those companies that don't will generally become less competitive.
Half of the people that post comments here don't even live in the Bay Area and have nothing better to do than sit around and make comments on videos like this. Also, it's London Breed's fault this area has been a dump since the 1980s? People need to get a fucking grip.
San Francisco will never return until employees feel safe.
those companies were paid to be there in hope of gentrifying the neighborhood.. without the incentive of course they are all gone
The problem will only be solved after the root cause is correctly identified. (Not) allowing cars on Market St. has little/nothing to do w/ it.
The root cause is you voting blue and never have a clue 😂
That really tall guy who works at Market on Market is cool.
London Breed is a horrible mayor and I didn't like Gavin Newsome when he was the mayor SF either. They are bad politicians.
The miracle would be to have San Francisco vote red.
The city also promised to clean up the area around the Federal Building, 7th/Mission. I think they haven’t implemented their plans yet.
Did they use text-to-speech for the correspondence’s voice?
These "journalists" are skipping over the fact that Microsoft is still in that building.
I understand that managers can monitor their employees through their computer but it’s still not the same as working in the office. I loved working into the office and loved to interact with people face to face. Hire me! I enjoy living and working in SF.
I’ve stated that if government aren’t getting money in from taxes from rent they will figure a way to tax some other way. They’ll soon tax you from working in your own home. Oh you use your home 40% of the time for work, pay up😂
There needs to be seating.Walk market street if you are elderly handicap no seating no foot traffic
Good luck having people come in at work.
Dolby upnext
work form home is not the issue, Californian policies favoring criminals are the issue. X left because of this.
Nobody cares!! SF has earned EVERY BIT of their current situation!
I would move to the mid market if I could afford a condo there but if they reopened market to cars I would be less likely to buy there.
SF will have a new mayor this fall. Let's hope things get changed.
on brand.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, X. Thank you for getting out and making the city better.
Why anyone would move to an expensive ghetto like California is beyond me!
That area struggled just as much before, twitter has nothing to do with that. And the reason is fairly simple - it's one of the worst parts of the city. It's unpleasant to be there during the day, and it's outright terrifying in the evening.
Also, bringing cars back to Market is a dumb idea. First - it'll be barely usable due to high volume of pedestrians and let's just say less than ideal intersections. Second - no one who understands anything about business can actually believe that you can get a meaningful boost in downtown customers from 1.5 parking spots that each store will get. And who'd want to park there anyway? You'd leave you car and it'd be bipped in 5 minutes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s literally the butthole of the city
Yes - lazy reporting on Lyanne's part. Pedestrians make an area vibrant and business thriving. Not cars passing through or jockeying for what little street parking are available.
London Breed just doesn’t get it. We don’t want to go back to work 5 days a week. It’s her job to come up with fresh new ideas on how to revitalize downtown. Hint: Affordable Housing. Where are her ideas? Maybe she shouldn’t be so quick to condescend “this new generation” and instead listen to the ideas coming from us. No way she has my vote.
The truth is going to be in BARF ridership. They're all back in Santa Clara. It has nothing to do with remote work.
You charged me double for the price of the tires for my car I'm charged double for the price of gas that goes in my car I'm charged more than double for the food that goes in my body these are the things that people have to deal with when they drive back and forth to work and you wonder why remote work is so popular
Yeah, we need REAL businesses in the city again, not tech companies that do remote work.
EVERY layoff effects 5 businesses,,, coffeeshop, fastfood, entertainment etc, etc,,
"Pissoir" is actually a masculine word in French. One should, "Le grand pissoir"!
Cars won't fix your problem. Getting rid of Newsom will.
London Breed. Karen Bass.
If you live in these cities, you are not wise.
Thanks LONDON
this is Due to Trumps Era Policies
@@michaelWells-ef9bxWhich ones?
@@KK-pm7ud All of them
@@michaelWells-ef9bxoh you’re not using your noodles 😂. Keep voting blue and have no clue😂
London Breed, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom...snake oil sales are booming
They lose businesses that produce goods and replace it for business based on consumerism.
Let it all fail already. Let's go UA-cam
Most of the scooters and bikes ride on the sidewalk, and, accordingly, are not registered. Bringing back cars will do nothing. There is no reason that anything will change if cars are allowed.
Yall start claiming our memes are political propaganda....while yall can't even handle kill tony in los Angeles without trying to harm people that just wanna watch comedy.... that's when we leave.
San Francisco smells a lot better now that X has left the bay area.
Revitalize the area by converting to homeless shelters. That should increase foot traffic.
Lol you’re part of the problem 😂
Tesla will leave California too
They pushed for high tech and ignored the artist culture to the demise of the SF VIBE.
Just let people defend themselves.
who want to go there. my friend's tesls got a bullet in the morning commute. It is like a hell
the real problem is the housing costs are too high. of rent was cheaper to a a people would move back to sf and fill the bars and restaurants and make it fun again
but also, todays young people are not very much fun . they are dull. they do t really party or interact in person socially.
this used to be a fun young party city. there new people are boring.
you gotta make it cheap so the fun people
can come back
Market Street is a mess. So many one ways, not car zones, etc. Nobody wants to go there unless they have to and it they park their cars there it'll get broken into!
Disgusting that city and companies force people to come back
They aren't forcing anyone. People have a choice. They aren't slaves. Free county. Isn't it wonderful.