City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

City Insider City Insider / mayor says the middle-class area on the edge of "the resurgence of"

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Mayor Ed Lee On the streets by bicycle at least part of Thursday.

Wedding middle class is the mayor of San Francisco for decades, but the city is finally on the verge of turning into a long depression of the city’s main boulevard Mayor Ed Lee said on Thursday.

“I think you’ll see a resurgence of all,” Lee said when he visited the old Merchandise Mart is the renovation of the 10th and Market streets around the new headquarters of tech companies to twitter, and yammer CallSocket and home decor web site One Kings Lane.

tax credit was approved last year for companies to expand their middle-class area of ​​labor was the key to keep the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Ali Rowghani , Chief Financial Officer, said it would be “well north of 1000″ the world’s workforce, as it moves into its new home in San Francisco this summer.

Twitter has estimated that i t could grow to more than 2,600 jobs over the next five years, middle-class place, according to the mayor’s office. The company currently leases the upper three floors, which is now known as Market Square.

Overall, 1100000 square meters of buildings have been renovated a couple of Shorenstein Properties is expected to include offices, retail space and a much needed full-service grocery store.

“The demand and demographics is evident here,” said Doug Shorenstein , chairman and managing director of real estate investment and development company.

Twitter this summer and is expected to move to the anchor. The prospect of a kick-start housing projects, a field that had lain dormant, and brought new business and arts programs for small businesses.

“It’s all too real,” said Lee. “No more talking.”

– John Cote

pedal power: Being green is a political currency in this city, and Mayor Ed Lee was under pedal power Thursday – at least part time -. Bike to Work Day

So, we have a City Insider thought it a perfect opportunity to see his plan last summer to keep the bike and use the town hall official trips when she drives to your plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt.

Mayor has not made any public appearances on two wheels, except for Bike to work day. But it is actually two electric bikes stored in the mayor at City Hall garage.

“I’m secretly test them on the weekends,” said Lee, and I hope the warmer weather and a slower schedule will allow him to pedal its meetings in June.

But it seems like it could have used the bike from the garage on Thursday afternoon, Mayor.

After driving to City Hall from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco Bicycle Coalition of the morning with leaders and others, Lee was forced to an afternoon tour of the new Twitter offices undergoing refurbishment for about 2 1/2 blocks from City Hall.

He was then driven back to the town hall, and those who left the tour at the same time, he knocked on the back foot City Hall.

– John Cote

move. plan to place a Chinese hospital clinic in China Town blocks from home easily won Planning Commission approval Thursday

unanimous, however, is only the warm up next week to debate a draft environmental impact report on the $ 160 million plan to build a modern, seismically safe facility in Jackson Street instead of the original hospital built in the 1924th

Although the relocation of the hospital infusion clinic, a former furniture store at 827 Pacific Ave. It was originally part of a rehabilitation plan is going to the hospital officials decided to turn them into two different projects.

Hospital plans to move its outpatient radiology unit of Pacific Avenue site with offices, which added to the hospital. Infusion clinic with ambulatory patients receiving chemotherapy, intravenous antibiotics, blood transfusions and other similar services, whether on the second floor.

– John Wildermuth

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