Does San Francisco Have Room For Industry?

With skyrocketing residential prices and continuing gentrification, are San Francisco's industrial areas (and their jobs) fated to disappear?

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April 19, 2005, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

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?

Monday, April 18, 2005 in The Next American City

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