Groundbreaking for Market Street’s Signature Project

Posted October 23, 2018 by Randy Shaw

A Triumph Over Challenges at 950-974 Market On October 25, groundbreaking will begin on San Francisco’s most impactful development outside of the new Warriors arena. It takes place at 950-974 Market, a new hotel and condominium in two striking new
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Sports Gambling in the Tenderloin?

Posted May 15, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Gambling Long Boosted the Tenderloin and Mid-Market: Could It Return? Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s May 14 ruling legalizing sports gambling in the United States came 63 years late for San Francisco’s Tenderloin.As I detail in my book, The Tenderloin: Sex,
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Amidst Problems, Cafes, Apartments are Rising in SF’s Mid-Market/Civic Center

Posted April 26, 2018 by Randy Shaw

New Playgrounds Highlight Transformation of Civic Center Park Having written a book refuting claims that Twitter’s arrival at 9th and Market Street “gentrified” Mid-Market and the Tenderloin, I’ve followed the recent stories about needles, feces and crime in the Mid-Market/Civic
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To Boost Retail, Build Housing

Posted February 20, 2018 by Randy Shaw

New Housing, Not Vacancy Tax, Will Fill Vacant Storefronts Last week’s announcement of Whole Foods opening in San Francisco’s Mid-Market shows again how new housing  boosts ground floor retail. It also highlights new housing’s vital role in providing the foot
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Why Mid-Market and Tenderloin Progress Stalled

Posted December 19, 2017 by Randy Shaw

I predicted in a January 5, 2017 article that San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood would take “major steps toward revitalization” in 2017. I was wrong. I was also wrong about anticipated progress for portions of Mid-Market bordering the Tenderloin. It’s no
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5 Years After Twitter, Mid-Market Begins to Blossom

Posted October 6, 2016 by Randy Shaw

October 6 launches the three day Market Street Prototyping Festival featuring 40 art installations to “spur curiosity and connection on Market Street.” The Festival attracts thousands to Mid-Market to get a first-hand look at the area’s progress five years after
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Uncovering the Real Grit of San Francisco

Posted December 22, 2015 by Randy Shaw

On the 100th anniversary of the city’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, four new books uncover the real grit of San Francisco and its neighborhoods. My new book, The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco, begins
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San Francisco 2015: The Year in Review

Posted December 17, 2015 by Randy Shaw

In the past two decades, San Francisco politics has seen five very politically significant years: In 1995, Willie Brown’s rescued the city from the far too conservative accidental mayor Frank Jordan; In 2000, district elections brought grassroots progressives like Chris
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