Well, if they're going to move in a bigger way into SF, Mission Bay makes sense. It's basically a big ghost town. Lots of UCSF-owned medical facilities and lifeless condos. But plenty of space. And it's relatively close to the transit hubs in South Beach.
As a nearby resident and worker, though, I'm not looking forward to the traffic or the added residential real estate crunch. We've got the Giants, soon we'll have the Warriors, we'll have a few huge high rises going up, a huge Salesforce campus in the works, and maybe we'll have a Google office. Oy vey.
Meanwhile SF supervisors have proposed a moratorium on the Ellis act.
If rent was ugly before, I can't imagine what if will be like now.
I get the feeling that the mayor and supervisors only care about displacement, not placement.
Would that be a headquarters move, or just an SF office move? IIRC, they may have to move out of their present space above Palomino, which means they'd be looking for someplace to put their current SF employees.
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What does Google do at its Chicago office? I can never quite figure that city out.
Since when is SF called "The City"?
There is only one "The City", and it ain't in North America.
As an European, I've never understand how is that possible that South Bay is such a bad place to live. Everything interesting like night life, public transport even groceries and restaurants are all either non-existent or so far away that you always have to drive. No wonder everyone wants to live in SF because there's nothing to do in the South Bay. What is the problem really? There's a lot of money in there, lots of potential customers, good geographical conditions, creativity and yet it's so badly planned and organized. This year I moved to London and there are lots of things to do in virtually every district. Public transport is amazing compared to the Bay area and you don't even need to own a car. That's completely impossible in the Valley and I have no idea why isn't there someone who tries to change that.