The downtown stores and businesses play a critical role in driving San Francisco economy, but they have been slow in rebounding from the pandemic blues.
Dr. Karen Chapple is a professor emerita at UC Berkeley and Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. She and a team of researchers are conducting the"Urban Displacement Project," which tracks how much activity is happening in downtown areas. They analyze cell phone data, not just office vacancy rates, to compare recent population patterns to pre-pandemic numbers.
"San Francisco, March 16, 2020, was at 30% of its pre-pandemic activity. March 2022, November 2022, still at 30% of its pre-pandemic activity," she said. He took over the breakfast and lunch spot a few months before the pandemic with a plan of catering to the office crowd in the FiDiWoo gets some in-person business, but says he's pivoted to a lot of online and delivery app orders.According to a CBS News analysis of San Francisco job trend data from the U.S.
"Part of what I am pushing for in some of my tax initiatives is for some of the existing businesses to delay the change in the gross receipts tax so that people's taxes aren't doubling by June of this year," Breed said."We're pushing that off for another two years to try and get businesses to be motivated about sticking with us, working with us, and continuing in San Francisco.
"So, we've re-zoned the entire downtown area so that now the opportunity to convert without going through a lengthy one to even two-year process to change the use of a space," Breed said."You can automatically do it through an easier process that'll take less time. That's not to say it'll happen automatically, but it's just an easier adjustment that's less time consuming.
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