San Fran media overplay Sixth Street real estate revival
September 12, 2006
Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Business Times have recently written stories about the Sixth Street area of the city, and both stories are much more positive than the actual situation, claims the BeyondChron web site.
Randy Shaw wrote, “The San Francisco Business Times did a story a few months ago touting 6th Street’s improvement, and an even more optimistic story appeared in the September 10 Chronicle. Urban Solutions, which is funded by the Redevelopment Agency to attract business and promote 6th Street, prompted both stories.
“Unfortunately, just as the Agency’s promises in the early 1990’s to revive businesses and create a mixed-income community along 6th Street went unfulfilled, their current version of life on 6th does not reflect reality.
“When the Redevelopment Agency first took control of 6th Street in 1990 as part of an ‘Earthquake Recovery Area,’ there were fewer vacant storefronts than there are today. It’s great that Urban Solutions is attracting new business to the area, but there were businesses all along the first block of 6th before the Agency got involved.”
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San Fran media overplay Sixth Street real estate revival
September 12, 2006
Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Business Times have recently written stories about the Sixth Street area of the city, and both stories are much more positive than the actual situation, claims the BeyondChron web site.
Randy Shaw wrote, “The San Francisco Business Times did a story a few months ago touting 6th Street’s improvement, and an even more optimistic story appeared in the September 10 Chronicle. Urban Solutions, which is funded by the Redevelopment Agency to attract business and promote 6th Street, prompted both stories.
“Unfortunately, just as the Agency’s promises in the early 1990’s to revive businesses and create a mixed-income community along 6th Street went unfulfilled, their current version of life on 6th does not reflect reality.
“When the Redevelopment Agency first took control of 6th Street in 1990 as part of an ‘Earthquake Recovery Area,’ there were fewer vacant storefronts than there are today. It’s great that Urban Solutions is attracting new business to the area, but there were businesses all along the first block of 6th before the Agency got involved.”
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