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She added that her reporting shows that companies aren’t finding enough qualified individuals to fill middle-tier jobs, while there is a large talent pool for both high-paying jobs and low-end positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”OWwUfEaQMa35C5bP89Pv8CzXJpYPvlzd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not do such a good job in this country of connecting the dots between job creators and educators,” Foroohar said to a roomful of public officials and industry leaders. “The educational system, except at a very high level, is churning out skills that aren’t necessarily required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said that 60 percent of new jobs that will be created over the next three years will require a two- or four-year degree, making education vital to the success of companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said she believes the private sector can help improve education and the bottom line. 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Indeed, there was a time when more companies were doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in complete agreement with the public and private sector sharing of the public load,” Bolden said. “The government can’t, nor should it, do everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borth Trudi Ryan, planning officer for Sunnyvale, and Aarti Shrivastava, assistant city manager of Cupertino, said they were primarily concerned with how public and private sector collaboration could address infrastructural issues. These include high housing costs and congested transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they hoped the private sector could engage with the public sector to help solve their communities’ problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boy, would I love to work with businesses,” Shrivastava said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private sector conference attendees also expressed similar desires to work with the public sector to find common ground, but said they were concerned about having the time to commit to civic causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Belgum, chief financial officer of cloud infrastructure company LeoNovus Inc., said he was worried about how a company focused on running a day-to-day business could fully participate in collaboration with local governments on community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Beauchman, a consultant for AT&T and a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, said there was an imbalance between the lack of resources in the public sector and the lack of time companies have to invest in civic solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public [sector] feels more of a sense of urgency and this is because of the resources they don’t have,” Beauchman said. “We need to have more people at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Bowes, a managing director at Accenture, said his company is always urging its clients to follow more sustainable models of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there’s a high correlation in serving the people in the world and growing the business,” he said. “It’s the special sauce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peninsula Press’ Ileana Najarro and Katie Kramon contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And it’s true that some cab drivers would still rather pick up a drunken, carsick barbershop quartet than try to stake a claim in the “sharing economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426093\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10426093\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Looking back through one of the sideview mirrors on John Han's taxicab. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rock legend Neil Young has been popping up everywhere these days. Earlier this week, he joined “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon on stage for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6otmy3DAK8&feature=youtu.be\">duo performance of “Old Man.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed identically, down to matching cowboy hats, it was still easy to tell the “Two Neils” apart. But how easy is it to tell the difference between MP3s and high-resolution music files? That’s what Neil Young’s been talking about lately. Last month, his company, Pono, unveiled a $399 high-fidelity music player and downloading service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190320953\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism from some in the tech community has been harsh. Yahoo Tech's David Pogue declared “\u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/tech/it-was-one-of-kickstarters-most-successful-109496883039.html\">the emperor has no clothes\u003c/a>,” and advised people not to buy the player. He pointed to some scientific research suggesting that the human ear can’t even discern a difference beyond CD-quality sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many musicians and avid music lovers who have long been dissatisfied with the sound quality of MP3s have been extremely receptive to Pono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426189\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Pono-player.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10426189 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Pono-player.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Easa checks out a PonoPlayer at a listening party at the AudioVision SF store in San Francisco.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Easa checks out a PonoPlayer at a listening party at the AudioVision SF store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Audiovision SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Shockman and Jeff Howe were among several self-described audiophiles at a listening party at AudioVision SF's store in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to hearing a Daft Punk recording of “Get Lucky” on the PonoPlayer, Shockman, an engineer for Google, noted, “There was a chuckle in there I had never heard before. I mean, you hear subtlety in the making of the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe, a building designer by day and a musician and DJ by night, gushed after hearing Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” “Actually being able to get source material -- and being able to carry around a player that can deliver that source in that quality -- was mind-blowing to me,\" Howe said. \"I'm kind of looking forward to getting one and going to parties where people are listening to iPods and other MP3 players. Unplug that and plug in a Pono, and show them what real digital audio can sound like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-fidelity music has long been the domain of audiophiles willing to shell out big bucks for expensive niche equipment, but the Pono system is one of the first serious attempts to push high-resolution audio into the mainstream, says Pedram Abrari, Pono’s senior vice president of technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pono is an end-to-end high-res music ecosystem,\" Abrari says, \"kind of similar to the original iTunes iPod, if you will, but it's all for hi-res music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The objective of Pono, he says, is to turn the tide on compressed music and restore the “feeling” back into the music. This is a word you hear often from Pono proponents, including Neil Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with John Horn for KPCC’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/01/14/41111/neil-young-is-on-a-mission-to-restore-the-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The Frame\u003c/a>,” Young said, “Do you want to hear all of the music that you can recognize on your iPod? You want to feel it? Do you want it to be a visceral experience? Do you want to get goose bumps? Do you want to cry? Do you want to laugh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says that we’ve lost a visceral, soulful connection to music, which most of us now listen to in a compressed form. “I think MP3s, basically, are too much of a compromise. As an artist, I look at it that way. I think it’s the low bar for music.” He says it’s time to shift the focus back to quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When audio engineers talk about digital sound quality, they usually focus on bit and sampling rates. The more bits of data per instant of sound, the better the quality. Think of it like pixels on a television screen; the more you have, the clearer the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrari says, “It’s very easy for people to look at hi-res video and standard-def video on two TVs and say, 'Oh, that's better.' \"When it comes to audio, he says it’s a little bit harder to detect. “It's almost like trying to detect a difference between fine wine and wine out of a box. Once you develop a palate for it, the feeling that fine wine gives you when you drink it is very different than a feeling that really cheap wine gives you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10426190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\" alt=\"Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac El Dorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer.\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer. \u003ccite>(PonoMusic Kickstarter Video)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, that’s what a lot of professional musicians have said about hi-res audio. Dozens of high-profile artists praised the Pono system in a highly successful\u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music\"> Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a>, which raked in $6.2 million. In the video, they’re shown riding with Neil Young in his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a Pono sound system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening, Norah Jones exclaims, “That music made me feel good; much better than I’ve felt in a long time listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Matthews adds, “It’s really a difference. I don’t know … curved and round and there’s a dynamic. It doesn’t seem like it just hits a wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he turned to crowdsourcing after most venture capitalists he approached in Silicon Valley declined to invest. Again speaking with KPCC, he said, “The reason we went to Kickstarter is because the venture capitalists didn’t have the vision to see what this was. 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Speaking in his “cave,” a personal workshop, Savage said, “I appreciate Neil being a studio musician, listening to his tracks the way he intended to record them and for all the decades he's been so great at what he does, having a goal for the listener to hear what he hears. But I also think that people can go a little overboard in terms of the compression ratios -- and from what I understand of the PonoPlayer, it's going into sound frequencies that dogs cannot even hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with that in mind, he conducted an informal test. “So, we got a hold of a PonoPlayer and I thought, 'I want to find out if there's anything to this.' So rather than test on my own ears -- I did have a listen -- I enlisted the help of my son. 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The more bits of data per instant of sound, the better the quality. Think of it like pixels on a television screen; the more you have, the clearer the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrari says, “It’s very easy for people to look at hi-res video and standard-def video on two TVs and say, 'Oh, that's better.' \"When it comes to audio, he says it’s a little bit harder to detect. “It's almost like trying to detect a difference between fine wine and wine out of a box. 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Dozens of high-profile artists praised the Pono system in a highly successful\u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music\"> Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a>, which raked in $6.2 million. In the video, they’re shown riding with Neil Young in his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a Pono sound system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening, Norah Jones exclaims, “That music made me feel good; much better than I’ve felt in a long time listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Matthews adds, “It’s really a difference. I don’t know … curved and round and there’s a dynamic. It doesn’t seem like it just hits a wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he turned to crowdsourcing after most venture capitalists he approached in Silicon Valley declined to invest. Again speaking with KPCC, he said, “The reason we went to Kickstarter is because the venture capitalists didn’t have the vision to see what this was. 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They sent shares \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR\" target=\"_blank\">up over 16 percent\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whatever you think of the company's financial prospects, none other than its own CEO thinks it can do much better on a topic that's garnered a lot of press lately: Twitter trolls chasing users away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days ago, The Verge \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-memo-taking-personal-responsibility-for-the\" target=\"_blank\">obtained an internal memo\u003c/a> from CEO Dick Costolo lamenting the company's inability to deal effectively with those Twitterers who harass other users on the site. In response to an employee's question on an online forum about cyberbullying, Costolo responded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years. It's no secret and the rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing.\u003cbr>\nWe're going to start kicking these people off right and left and making sure that when they issue their ridiculous attacks, nobody hears them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody on the leadership team knows this is vital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a followup message, Costolo wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We HAVE to be able to tell each other the truth, and the truth that everybody in the world knows is that we have not effectively dealt with this problem even remotely to the degree we should have by now, and that's on me and nobody else. So now we're going to fix it, and I'm going to take full responsibility for making sure that the people working night and day on this have the resources they need to address the issue, that there are clear lines of responsibility and accountability, and that we don't equivocate in our decisions and choices.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Petit agrees with Costolo that Twitter sucks at dealing with abuse. Petit is the former editor of the site GameSpot. (She has also written for KQED Arts.) In September 2013 she wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/grand-theft-auto-v-review/1900-6414475/\" target=\"_blank\">review of Grand Theft Auto 5\u003c/a> that talked about the virtues of the game but also its \"unnecessary strain of misogynistic nastiness.\" In a sort of prelude to the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy\" target=\"_blank\">GamerGate\u003c/a> controversy, the review drew more than 22,000 comments, including many that attacked Petit for her opinions. The negative comments also bled over to her Twitter feed, where, she says, she fielded death threats among the other attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a transgender woman, Petit says, \"it is not unusual for me to get hateful and harassing messages here and there on Twitter, but this review was the catalyst for a tremendous influx of hateful harassing tweets,\" including many slurs around her gender identity and appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mostly responded by blocking the abusive Tweeters from sending her messages. \"That's often the only immediately effective response to trolls on Twitter,\" she says. \"The only problem is it doesn't acknowledge the fact that sometimes there are things that may need to be taken more seriously, like death threats that need to be looked into by law enforcement, (the users) that Twitter has the responsibility to step in and shut down in immediate and more effective ways than they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her reports of abuse using Twitter's online form resulted in automated replies. 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So it couldn't really be from him. Also, he was dead. Just 18 months earlier, I'd watched him turn gray and drown in his own lungs. So I was like 80% sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I don't believe in heaven. And even if I did, I'd hope to god they don't have fucking Twitter there. It's heaven. Go play chocolate badminton on a cloud with Jerry Orbach and your childhood cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there it was, a message. Some context-- in the summer of 2013, in certain circles of the internet, comedians and feminists were at war over rape jokes. Being both a comedy writer and a committed feminist killjoy, I weighed in with an article in which I said that I think a lot of male comedians are careless with the subject of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's just a sample of the responses I got on social media. A quick warning, these are internet comments about rape, so it's going to suck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love how the bitch complaining about rape is the exact kind of bitch that would never be raped.\" \"Holes like this make me want to commit rape out of anger.\" \"I just want to rape her with a traffic cone.\" \"No one would want to rape that fat disgusting mess.\" \"Kill yourself.\" \"I want to put an apple into that mouth of yours and take a huge stick and slide it through your body and roast you.\" \"That big bitch is bitter that no one wants to rape her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went on like that for weeks. It's something I'm used to. I have to be. Being insulted and threatened online is part of my job, which is not to say it doesn't hurt. It does. It feels-- well, exactly like you would imagine it would feel to have someone call you a fat cunt every day of your life.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>West's story has a happy ending, of sorts. 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A “big” building used to mean thousands of square feet, but today companies sometimes need millions of square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a scale that almost always requires institutional money,” said John Sobrato, a longtime Silicon Valley developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sobrato.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sobrato’s family business\u003c/a> made billions developing Silicon Valley, including Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10422949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10422949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prominent local Silicon Valley developer John M. Sobrato standing in front of the Apple headquarters he built in Cupertino in 1992. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14126_sobrato-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prominent local Silicon Valley developer John M. Sobrato standing in front of the Apple headquarters he built in Cupertino in 1992. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The business has changed dramatically, certainly in the 30 years I’ve been in it,” said Sobrato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in his career, he says the Sobrato Organization’s competitors were other local firms. But now they’re competing with large institutions with access to Wall Street opportunity funds, or foreign pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The money and the decision-making rests with the financial partners who are based in New York or far away,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Contractors Also Left Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of today’s development projects requires so much money that building them is not worth the risk for some Silicon Valley general contractors. McLarney said firms need to have the insurance or bonding capacity to handle an expensive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189296785&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any given project you have a potential of an error or making a mistake. And each of those things comes with a price tag. 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"content": "\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”FxneX50LRxZTF4LMF4Mu3ZaqNztK5jG4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. Now we can fix it going forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This boom will end, Ekern says, and Redwood City will have the chance to assess whether it took the best advantage of tech money while it was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our Boomtown series: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. 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