With skyrocketing residential prices and continuing gentrification, are San Francisco's industrial areas (and their jobs) fated to disappear?
For decades, industrial businesses have struggled against housing advocates for turf in San Franciscos Eastern Neighborhoods, which include South of Market, Mission, Bayview, Portrero Hill, and Showplace Square. Though the pro-housing camp has been winning the overall warslowly creeping into, and displacing, industrial usesa recent turn of events in Showplace Square presents a powerful opportunity for industry advocates to make their case.
Thanks to Seth Brown
FULL STORY: Showdown at Showplace Square: Does San Francisco Have Room for Industry?
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