The San Francisco Examiner regularly publishes my Letters to the Editor and most often it is the first one displayed. You already know I like the Examiner and hold it up as a model for future newspapers.
This letter concerns an early article in which the business-ignorant politicians of San Francisco were talking about creating more business in the poor and dangerous neighborhoods.
This
City makes it very difficult to create businesses in residential
neighborhoods, or anywhere else for that matter (“Neighborhoods losing
denizens’ cash,” The Examiner, April 4).
Rarely can a single neighborhood store survive alone; it needs nearby dry cleaners, laundries, small groceries, UPS, Kinko’s, a phone store, a bank branch, a Realtor, several coffee shops (Peet’s, Starbucks) and two or three boutiques. Since most of the successful neighborhood stores that can survive within a small physical space are Bay Area chains or national chains, the idea of attracting neighborhood stores is doomed from the outset.
Hostility to chain stores means neighborhood stores have no chance to start and survive. Leon Trotsky might be happy in San Francisco, but local neighborhood stores know that the anti-chain store mentality means they are punished here."
Hello, My family and I own reporpty in Armory Park and recently began encountering many complaints from our residents regarding changes to our parking arrangements with the city.For some reason Parkwise made some changes at our reporpty that I truly hope is an oversight and can be taken care of . There are a total of 8 apartments and have really enjoyed the Armory Park neighborhood. I have been meening to join APNA, as well as get more involved as time allows. Before I address the issue with Parkwise, I wanted to see if there was someone at APNA who wouldn't mind enlightening me as to whom I should contact at Parkwise. Thank you in advance and I look forward to your respons and meeting you soon. Thanks again. Sincerely, Dave Glick Agave Ventures, LLC 346 S. 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701 cell: 480 540 1105 email:
Posted by: Nsamba | April 20, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Ok, So I went to the meeting. There were lots of poelpe.. It was organized well... We were in groups that were given large wedgwood maps to add our "vision" to with markers. The most agreed upon topics were sidewalks, a farmers market at Hunter Tree farm, the post office needs a better locale or drive thru, a new park (i guess the parks dept already is looking for a good spot in the wedge for a new park believe it or not it could be on west side of 35th around 89th or something ). more crosswalks across 35th, finding a town center or plaza and enhancing it.. growing veggies in our front yards!! for sale at the marker(love this), Public art, humanscale business fronts only...There were also some crazy ideas like adding a movie theatre and a burger joint, having a shuttle bus for just our hood ? All in all it seems the average attendee put forth a vision for our little wedge that seemed very reasonable.. I think the Urban Planners (Makers Architecture) got the picture about us. It was great, Thanks for telling me about it!
Posted by: Brisa | May 31, 2012 at 10:45 AM