That is terribly political and ignorant. San Francisco has a great deal of commercial space that has been converted to either pure residential or live/work. O

That is terribly political and ignorant. San Francisco has a great deal of commercial space that has been converted to either pure residential or live/work. One potentially interesting recent example is the tower on Van Ness which was empty and abandoned for many years. That enabled it to be sold at an extremely low price which still did not make the renovations pencil out for anything except high end luxury apartments. Commercial to residential conversions tend to be expensive and complex and political convenience is not much help for that.