Oh, give me a break. I live in the supposed "tax free hooker area", and there are probably more hookers in the lounge of the Ritz Carlton than there are near the SF Furniture Mart (where the city wants Twitter to move). It's not like they're proposing to move them into an abandoned Happy Donut at the corner of 6th and Market.
City hall and the Asian Art Museum are one block north. The opera, symphony and ballet are two blocks northwest. There are two high-rise, luxury condominium buildings directly across the street. Walk 10 minutes west, and you're smack in the middle of one of the city's up-and-coming neighborhoods (Hayes Valley), replete with boutique shopping, gourmet coffee stands and antique stores.
If offering Twitter a sweetheart lease on a gigantic building in a gentrifying urban neighborhood and giving them a tax break is enough to drive them away, then I sincerely wish Twitter luck in trying to retain their employees once they move to Brisbane. What've they got out there? A Taco Bell?
City hall and the Asian Art Museum are one block north. The opera, symphony and ballet are two blocks northwest. There are two high-rise, luxury condominium buildings directly across the street. Walk 10 minutes west, and you're smack in the middle of one of the city's up-and-coming neighborhoods (Hayes Valley), replete with boutique shopping, gourmet coffee stands and antique stores.
If offering Twitter a sweetheart lease on a gigantic building in a gentrifying urban neighborhood and giving them a tax break is enough to drive them away, then I sincerely wish Twitter luck in trying to retain their employees once they move to Brisbane. What've they got out there? A Taco Bell?