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Post by nictoe on Apr 7, 2023 6:00:07 GMT -8
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MDDad
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Post by MDDad on Apr 7, 2023 6:19:40 GMT -8
I would ask the left to make a list of all the major American cities with Republican mayors and city councils that are as eff'd up as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and New York. Go ahead, I'll wait.
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Post by SK80 on Apr 7, 2023 6:34:01 GMT -8
I would ask the left to make a list of all the major American cities with Republican mayors and city councils that are as eff'd up as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and New York. Go ahead, I'll wait. that depends on one perspective, if you ask those within the listed cities they would not proclaim their city "eff'd up" as they obviously voted for what they have..... |
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Post by nictoe on Apr 7, 2023 7:38:12 GMT -8
Now if you want your peaceful town, city or community turned into a hellhole war-zone, cuz rocketing to a dead planet is far more important, then giddily invite Elon Musk.....and see WTF he'll do to it:
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Post by Bick on Apr 8, 2023 6:17:36 GMT -8
I would ask the left to make a list of all the major American cities with Republican mayors and city councils that are as eff'd up as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and New York. Go ahead, I'll wait. Maybe a shorter list would be the number of large American cities run by Republicans. San Antonio is the only city over 1 million run by anyone other than Democrats, and he's an independent. Makes you wonder why there aren't many large GOP run cities. In fairness, Fresno and Bakersfield aren't exactly shining lights, and they ARE run by GOP. ballotpedia.org/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_the_100_largest_cities |
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Post by nictoe on May 3, 2023 10:16:41 GMT -8
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Post by nictoe on May 9, 2023 7:32:30 GMT -8
Frisco is going to the dogs these days.
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Post by nictoe on May 24, 2023 12:24:48 GMT -8
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SK80
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Post by SK80 on May 24, 2023 16:33:13 GMT -8
Can we all agree now "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
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Post by nictoe on May 24, 2023 16:47:21 GMT -8
There's Poop Everywhere": San Francisco's Office District Not Only A Ghost Town, It's Also Covered In Sh*t
Tyler Durden
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 -
Urban Alchemy employees pick up trash while people gather belongings in the Tenderloin neighborhood. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Everyone knows that San Francisco is the nation's largest public toilet - requiring the city to employ six-figure 'poop patrol' cleanup team, however a new report from the city Controller's Office really puts things in poo-spective.
For starters, feces were found far more often in commercial sectors, covering "approximately 50% of street segments in Key Commercial Areas and 30% in the Citywide survey," second only to broken glass as can be seen in the 'illegal dumping' section.
If you're wondering about the city's fecal methodology, look no further than a footnote on page 43;
Feces also includes bags filled with feces that are not inside trash receptacles. Feces that are spread or smeared on the street, sidewalk, or other objects along the evaluation route are counted. Stains that appear to be related to feces but have been cleaned are not counted. Bird droppings are excluded.
As far as where most of the poo is found, Nob Hill takes the top spot, followed by the Tenderloin and The Mission districts.
Via the San Francisco Standard
"It’s terrible; this street is covered," Tenderloin resident Joe Souza told The San Francisco Standard earlier this month. "There’s poop everywhere. You always see it along the wall and in front of the garage there."
Meanwhile, nearly 2/3 of key commercial routes reported moderate to severe street litter, vs. 41% of the citywide streets struggling with the same problem.
Via the San Francisco Standard
As the San Francisco Standard reports;
San Francisco’s commercial and residential streets are also highly tagged up, with every neighborhood except one—Visitacion Valley—reporting high levels of graffiti last year. The issue is once again worse in commercial areas, of which 71% said they had severe or moderate graffiti.
A Clean City team in the Tenderloin power washes the sidewalk on Hyde Street in San Francisco. | Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
“In terms of actual counts of graffiti observed, there were about 10 times (160,000 vs. 16,000 respectively) as many instances of graffiti reported in the Key Commercial Areas survey in comparison to the Citywide sample,” the report said.
And San Francisco’s favorite cleanliness fixation, human or animal feces, continues to be a sore spot for the city: Almost half of the surveyed commercial areas observed feces. Citywide, that figure was just 30%.
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San Francisco's poopocalypse comes amid a staggering commercial office vacancy rate as a combination of pandemic-era work-from-home policies, and people fleeing the city's notorious violence and poo-covered streets have made the once-thriving city into a ghost town.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2023
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Post by billb on May 24, 2023 17:42:18 GMT -8
And the guy that helped run the city into the ground might be our next President.
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Post by nictoe on Jun 12, 2023 4:23:33 GMT -8
Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business Nosedives
Kate King
June 12, 2023
San Francisco’s once thriving hotel market is suffering its worst stretch in at least 15 years, pummeled by the same forces that have emptied out the city’s office towers and closed many retail stores.
Hotel owners in New York and Los Angeles are filling nearly as many rooms this year as they did in 2019, according to hotel-data firm STR. Their revenue per available room exceeds what it was before the pandemic.
But in San Francisco, hotels are still struggling badly in both occupancy and room rates compared with before the pandemic. Revenue per available room was nearly 23% lower in April compared with the same month in 2019.
The city’s lodging business has been squeezed by crime and other quality-of-life issues that have kept many convention bookers away. Tech companies’ embrace of remote work also undercuts business travel to the city and hotel activity.
Now, a growing number of San Francisco hoteliers are signaling they may be ready to give up. In recent months, the owner of the city’s Huntington Hotel sold the property after facing foreclosure and the Yotel San Francisco hotel sold in a foreclosure auction. Club Quarters San Francisco, which has been in default on its loan since 2020, may also be headed to foreclosure, according to data company Trepp.
Other lodging properties in the city are also vulnerable. More than 20 additional San Francisco hotels are facing loans due in the next two years, according to data company CoStar.
In San Francisco’s biggest potential hotel default yet, Park Hotels & Resorts last week said it has stopped making loan payments on debt secured by the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 San Francisco. The two hotels, with nearly 3,000 rooms between them, are in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping and cultural district.
Tom Baltimore, chairman and chief executive of the real-estate investment trust, said that “San Francisco’s path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges—both old and new,” including empty offices, “concerns over street conditions” and lackluster convention bookings.
National retailers such as Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel and H&M have closed San Francisco stores. Tech companies are putting their offices up for sublease; and the city’s commercial real estate, previously among the most valuable in the world, has started selling at huge discounts.
“The recovery will be slow,” said Jan Freitag, national director for hospitality analytics at CoStar. “I think if you are a CEO or the meeting planner who recommends to the CEO, it’s very easy to say, ‘Let’s just wait on San Francisco for another year.’”
Overnight visits to the city were down 31% last year compared with 2019, according to the San Francisco Travel Association. Travel from China and other parts of Asia, previously a big part of the tourist equation, are still lagging though domestic tourism is improving.
San Francisco’s hotel market is also heavily dependent on convention travel, and concerns over public safety are prompting groups and associations to shift their business to markets like Las Vegas, said Michelle Russo, chief executive of hotelAVE, a consulting firm. That means slower business for San Francisco hotels today and in coming years, since many groups book convention space years in advance.
In part, “because of that, hotels are not worth as much today as they were pre-Covid in San Francisco,” Russo said.
Park Hotels’ properties could provide a test case for how much value the city’s hotels have lost. Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 San Francisco together were appraised at more than $1.5 billion in 2016 and generated more than $100 million in net operating income in 2019, according to Trepp.
The hotels lost more than $90 million between 2020 and 2022, Park said, and the properties were closed for much of that time. They had been recovering over the past year as group and leisure travel increased, but their owner faced an estimated $200 million in needed improvements to the properties.
Park Hotels also needed to refinance its interest-only $725 million loan scheduled to mature in November in order to maintain ownership of the hotels, said Truist Securities analyst C. Patrick Scholes. Rising interest rates are putting pressure on commercial landlords with interest-only loans, as higher borrowing costs make refinancing less attractive. Park Hotels had a 4.1% interest rate on its loan backed by the San Francisco hotels, and refinancing would come with a much higher rate, Scholes said.
The two hotels, which employ a combined 1,000 members of the Unite Here Local 2 union, are expected to remain open throughout any coming ownership change, said union President Anand Singh. He said the union has seen recent improvements in San Francisco’s hotel industry, with 75% of membership back to work.
“We don’t share the same gloomy assessment of San Francisco that’s bandied about these days,” Singh said. “If these hotels are ultimately sold for a song, then another company is going to come in and reap the benefits of that.”
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Post by nictoe on Jun 12, 2023 10:09:40 GMT -8
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Post by nictoe on Jul 18, 2023 7:36:39 GMT -8
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