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There kind of was a brief period, maybe 4 years? 2014 - 2018 or so when mid-market was looking up. Twitter was there. Square, and Uber. Businesses were moving

• asveikau 3y ago
  It's complicated. In some ways, the new occupants seemed like they propped things up artificially. I remember going for one of my regular walks around there one afternoon a few years ago and noticing that either block of Market surrounding Twitter had a lot of people sitting on the sidewalk. The block with Twitter was devoid of this. Then I saw a nonviolent-looking homeless guy looking tired, attempting to sit on the "wrong" block. Without a beat, private security comes in to protect the techie outpost, maybe he tells them to move one block over. I was kind of disgusted. Like human misery is ok so long as no techies need to see it. But I also think it was good they they were revitalizing those old buildings. It is unfortunate that the decline of office work has been pretty hard on SF's downtown. I hope it'll be back some day.