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"content": "\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188179768″ 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>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Mateo has long been a bedroom community for tech hubs to the north and south. But in recent years, it’s built a niche for itself as a home to tech startups such as \u003ca href=\"http://gopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoPro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.solarcity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar City\u003c/a>, among hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other cities, such as San Francisco or Redwood City, the boom hasn’t altered the character of San Mateo all that much, says Rafat Haddad, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/3-Bees-Coffee/145882248783885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Bees Coffee\u003c/a> downtown. “It has the feeling of a small town,” he says, “but it’s a big downtown.”\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/188179768″&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/188179768″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad used to be on the board of the \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown San Mateo Association\u003c/a>, and his coffee house functions as a social hub for many of the town’s movers and shakers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a> began in San Mateo, and its founders (PayPal alums Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) used to hang out at 3 Bees. Haddad remembers when there were just the three founders, then 60 employees, then 100. Then Google snapped them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10406261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10406261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg\" alt='Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo has been attracting tech start ups. Large firms? Not so much, \"Because we don’t have big spaces. So if they get big, they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.\"' width=\"375\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-400x362.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut-800x725.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13971_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafat Haddad, owner of 3 Bees Coffee, says San Mateo doesn’t have spaces big enough to attract large firms. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know,” he muses, “you’d never know that they were gonna make it. Some of them, they do, and some of them, they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Spaces Attract Tech Startups\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo doesn’t have the massive commercial footprints that are driving tech development in other cities, such as San Francisco and Redwood City. The downtown is \u003cspan class=\"st\">chockablock\u003c/span> with older buildings that date as far back as \u003ca href=\"http://dsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ka_dsm_walking_tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1893\u003c/a>. They’re charming, and still functional, but they’re also “very, very small,” says Marcus Clarke, laughing. Clarke is San Mateo’s economic development manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who can fit in those?” he says. “They used to be key shops and those kind of things. And now, a lot of boba tea shops can fit. They’re the only ones who can fit in 300 square feet!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown, which is really fascinating. \u003ccite>Marcus Clarke,\u003cbr>\nSan Mateo economic development manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The commercial spaces upstairs from boba tea shops and other small businesses turn out to be just the right size for tech startups. “If they get big,” Haddad says, “they move on to another big space. So they keep the opportunity for others to come again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddad says it was about five years ago when tech companies starting flooding into downtown. In 2013, 144 tech companies applied for new business licenses in San Mateo. Last year, 151 applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that everything’s small. Venture capitalist Tim Draper spotted an existing large building, the landmark Benjamin Franklin Hotel, and retrofitted it to become \u003ca href=\"http://draperuniversity.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Draper University\u003c/a>, a school for would-be tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tech is incorporating into the historic structures downtown,” Clarke says, “which is really fascinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steering Clear of Corporate Silos\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo’s tech boom is nowhere near as big as San Francisco’s. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Employment Development Department\u003c/a> reports San Francisco added more than 18,000 jobs last year in tech. San Mateo added 2,000. Still, that puts San Mateo ahead of most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10408579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10408579 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 7.26.34 PM\" width=\"762\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM.png 762w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-400x409.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-7.26.34-PM-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows the growth in tech jobs in 2014, over the previous year. Source data: California Employment Development Department. (Courtesy of The Concord Group)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going through some changes right now because everything changes,” says Rick Bonilla, a San Mateo planning commissioner and former union organizer who’s running for a vacant seat on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla’s big on that favorite phrase of urban planners: “smart” growth. Among other things, that means putting jobs near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing some higher heights and some larger developments,” he says, “but we’ve been smart in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?nid=1894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning \u003c/a>for this to happen along our transit corridor. So all this work is centered around our three train stations on the Caltrain line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means people can leave their cars behind, and the hope is they’d be more inclined to step out and engage with the city. San Mateo has some of those self-contained corporate campuses, silos that provide no reason for employees to leave. But Bonilla says city planners prefer buildings that contribute to the life of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10411550\" title=\"Rachael Myrow/KQED\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg\" alt=\"RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut-400x629.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14036_SanMateoTraffic-qut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo is not immune to the regional effects of the booming economy. That includes high housing costs and awful traffic. This iPhone screen shot was saved on a Friday night at 6:13.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the people need to come out and walk around and go to our local restaurants to eat,” he says. “If they want to exercise, there are several different spots here downtown. You can just take a walk. It’s a beautiful place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo is a place locals will proudly tell you is ethnically diverse, by which, they explain, they mean Asian and specifically Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salt-ponds-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salt ponds\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japanese-Americans-in-the-Produce-Floral-Industry/1493553414229774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flower industry\u003c/a>. Today, Japanese-Americans make up only 2.2 percent of San Mateo’s population, but they’re still a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. In the downtown area alone, there are roughly 30 Japanese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line forms early outside \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodspotting.com/places/19895-ramen-dojo-san-mateo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramen Dojo\u003c/a> at lunchtime. That’s because if you show up when the place opens at 11:30 a.m., you could be in for an hour-and-a-half wait. On one recent day, the people in line came from Fremont, Mountain View, New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. The locals were mostly tech workers from Gilead Sciences, Genentech, Oracle, Zinga and GoPro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they waited across the street from — what else? — a construction site, I asked why it doesn’t seem like San Mateo sees the kind of tech-boom blowback you see in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Francisco, because it’s such a dense city – in that there’s a finite amount of space – basically, when they develop, it raises rent prices across the board,” says Danny Gold, who commutes from San Francisco for his job at GoPro. “People who have been living there a long time kind of get edged out. San Mateo, because it’s a little bit bigger, I don’t think the effects are as pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limits to What San Mateo Can Do\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people on the Peninsula are getting edged out of the housing market, too. Marcus Clarke worries that an increasing number of people working here can’t afford to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our workforce lives in Hayward and even farther out,” he says. “They have to leave at 6 in the morning just to make it here by 8. You wonder about the quality of life for that. What kind of region does Silicon Valley want to be and who is it for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Mateo wanted to meet the demand, it would need to build 3,100 units over the next eight years, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/pdfs/Final%20RHNA%20(2014-2022).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments.\u003c/a> At \u003ca href=\"http://baymeadows.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Meadows\u003c/a>, the biggest new development in San Mateo, 1,100 housing units are going up, along with commercial space, 18 acres of parks and a private high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10411513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo: 1,100 new housing units, along with commercial space, parks, and a high school, on land that used to house a racetrack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS14034_Bay-Meadows-Sales-Sign-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Meadows, still under construction, is the biggest new development in San Mateo, a 10-minute drive from downtown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these condos are not options for the commuters Clarke worries about. Two-bedroom units here are going for $900,000. Ultimately, housing, like traffic, is dependent on regional and international economic pressures far beyond the control of the city of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So is heavy venture capital investment in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are we on the verge of another massive industrywide bust?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today is different,\" said Stephen Levy, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsce.com/Steve_Levy.php\">Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan think tank based in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy has been studying the state's boom-bust cycles for more than 40 years and is considered a leading thinker on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Companies like Apple, Google and LinkedIn have real sales, products and profits.\u003ccite>Stephen Levy, Director, Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It has taken companies like Apple and Google and LinkedIn and eBay years and years to build a customer base, he explained. \"They have real sales and products and profits,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the tech spectrum, the growth is more robust and solidly founded. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kamala Harris launches bid for U.S. Senate\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED/The California Report)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eight days ago, Kamala Harris took the oath of office for a second term as attorney general and delivered an inaugural address that talked about all she hoped to accomplish in the job over the next four years. What a difference eight days can make. Harris, 50, announced in a statement on her website Tuesday morning that she is a candidate for the U.S. Senate — news that comes after an intense flurry of speculation set off by the decision of Sen. 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To really think differently about what does it mean as a nation to be “indivisible” and what does it mean for us to really make sure that there’s a place for everybody at the table. “Right” would look like a mixed-income opportunity: that you have neighborhoods that are not all affluent or all poor, but in fact we begin to really deliver on the American Dream and create an opportunity for people across a much broader range … to live in a neighborhood where all the benefits of a healthy community are available to everyone in our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this boom having any benefit for the young people you serve at Youth UpRising?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”z9UQlyDMpe4adprPJp1jaG6hKfGeamjA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. And that’s not just the truth in East Oakland. We work in a neighborhood that we call the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/media/14552/copy%20of%20castlemont_advantage_privatepartners%20%287%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Castlemont Community\u003c/a>, at Census Tract 4097. That neighborhood really has been untouched by the boom. We have seven times the national crime rate in our neighborhood. And so the interface between crime and gentrification — or “boom,” as some people will call it more politely — isn’t often explored. But the truth is people are not running into a neighborhood where homicide is the leading cause of death. We also, though, have the cover of that to allow us an opportunity to really advance an agenda that’s a mixed-income housing, as opposed to a displacement, strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A young staff member at Youth UpRising was recently shot dead, years after turning his life around. Tell us about him and how you view his passing in light of this boom.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(He was) Born and raised in Sobrante Park, mother strung out on drugs, father completely absent. At 9 years old, really started fending for himself on the streets. And came to us six years ago, I promise you, the kind of kid you see and you cross the street. I \u003cem>promise\u003c/em> you. Very dark, very large, and looked menacing, because life had not been good to him. But as you began to love him, because love changes everything, he unfolded and became by far the best worker on our janitorial crew. …. The problem is that as you become softer, but you’re still living in a hard place, you become much more at risk. He was shot in the head in a dispute with someone else that was ultimately about $8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we should be ashamed of ourselves. As we drink our lattes and we commute back and forth with our heated seats and the comfort of what we’ve been fortunate enough to have, what is our responsibility to other Americans? And how dare we pathologize them for a failure that they were born into? That they didn’t create, but they suffer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But simply bringing more tech jobs to East Oakland wouldn’t solve the problem, because it would displace these struggling young people, too, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beauty of our economy and capitalism is that we can specialize. I just need (tech firms) to be an economic engine. Young people are dying in your backyard for a job. They’re \u003cem>dying!\u003c/em> And you have an obligation to that as a corporate citizen, as an economic member of this region. If you don’t want to hire people, let’s have a job creation strategy that’s based on procurement. Let’s onshore Oakland. Let’s bring dollars back in these communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just about everybody who’s anybody in consumer tech is at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cesweb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Consumer Electronic Show\u003c/a> in Las Vegas. So when Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich said the company was going to step up and spend $300 million to improve diversity, he made a big splash with all the right people. That, and he spoke to them in the language they love: numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will, as good engineers, measure and report our progress on a regular basis, with full transparency,” Krzanich said. “And we’re going to hold our leaders accountable by tying their pay to our progress. This is going to be difficult to achieve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel’s employment numbers look much the same as those at other major firms in Silicon Valley.\u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/equal-employment-opportunity-employer-info-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> At last count\u003c/a>, about a quarter of Intel’s U.S. employees were female, 8 percent were Latino and 4 percent were black. Intel is pledging to bump up those numbers substantially — by 14 percent — over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA7X6emZLTA&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money will fund a number of initiatives, including college and engineering scholarships, and support more positive representations of underrepresented groups in technology and gaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I literally got out of bed and jumped up and down for a minute,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/diversity/abramsbio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Abrams\u003c/a>, director of Diversity Initiatives at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “I think it’s fantastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Intel has fired a $300 million shot across the bow, challenging the next generation of tech talent to step up. “It makes an enormous difference to, you know, the college student out there studying symbolic systems at Stanford to think, ‘Wow, Intel’s doing this. I’m going to have a better shot at getting a job there. I’m going to put my nose to the grindstone.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say, though, that if Intel wants to change the equation in a big way, it needs to fund math and science programs that start much earlier than college — such as in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech firms have historically complained that there aren’t enough qualified blacks and Latinos in the job pool. But various studies show Silicon Valley isn’t scooping up all the people available, in part because recruiters habitually favor a short list of elite schools like Stanford and UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition are applauding Intel’s pledge — and so are local industry analysts like \u003ca href=\"http://wadhwa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Wadhwa\u003c/a>, who has written a book about women in Silicon Valley called “Innovating Women,” as well as columns for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and LinkedIn. He was one of many people who took to Twitter to applaud Intel — and challenge corporate rivals to follow Intel’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Intel’s announcement today about diversity initiatives no doubt a great step forward–because it committed to results. Others haven’t yet\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wadhwa/status/552928460633817089\">January 7, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I was delighted, actually,” Wadhwa says. “Everyone is getting excited about the $300 million number, but I think the real deal is they have committed to fixing their hiring practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Intel should be doing more than funding scholarships, and should also groom promising people throughout their entire careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Bryant of \u003ca href=\"http://www.blackgirlscode.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Girls Code\u003c/a> in San Francisco says that career starts in kindergarten. “They [companies] are not looking back far enough in the pipeline if they’re just looking at students in high school and college. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/edu/#q=diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u003c/a> has a K-12 department that supports work just like this, in after-school programs across the country. “If Intel wants to change the ratio,” Bryant says, “they’re going to have to do similar type of work.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>I worked in the so-called sharing economy for about a year, driving for the ride company Lyft. I was doing it to make \u003ca href=\"http://drivingwithstrangers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a podcast\u003c/a>, and it was a convenient vehicle for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I had concerns. It seemed like the income kept falling and would keep falling if no one regulated the number of drivers. I was unsure about insurance coverage. Most of all, I felt like driving for Lyft was taking money out of the pockets of cab drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Lyft driver Dan Carrigan has some of the same concerns. 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He was laid off from his previous job and wanted flexibility while he figured out what to do next. At first it seemed great, and he thought he could do it for a few years. But now he says he has realized there is not enough stability because as a driver he is replaceable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re part of a pool, you are really part of a pool,” Carrigan says, “so if suddenly companies could pay much less to drivers, and there were still drivers willing to drive for that rate, they would. And the rates are going lower and lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft Says It’s Listening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says it listens to drivers, and that it has recently improved the tipping system. In the summer, Lyft let drivers keep all their earnings. 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Teamsters spokesman Galen Munroe says that when it comes down to it, this is just the same old story — companies using part-time workers to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These companies “don’t want the responsibilities or the costs associated with direct employees,” Munroe says, “and to a certain degree we feel that this is misclassification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a fine line between contract worker and employee, and it is causing trouble for these new gig sites. Uber faces \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250503465/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-12-14-Amended-Complaint\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, as does \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Handy-com-housecleaners-lawsuit-could-rock-5891672.php\">Handy\u003c/a>. 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Friedman adds that by cleverly branding this work as the sharing economy, these tech companies are normalizing what is really unprotected, deregulated contract labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman says these tech platforms are “used to deny workers protections that we established in the New Deal era to protect people against unemployment, health crisis and to protect people’s work safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the gigs on these sites are pitched, Friedman says, sounds kind of like the worker utopia described by Karl Marx, where one could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do criticism in the evening, without having to become a hunter, a fisherman or a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of flexibility is desirable, he says, but in our modern capitalist society such gig work brings a harsh reality of less protection and more instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that charge, Lyft makes the case that its workers can purchase health insurance on their own now, with the Affordable Care Act. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I worked in the so-called sharing economy for about a year, driving for the ride company Lyft. I was doing it to make \u003ca href=\"http://drivingwithstrangers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a podcast\u003c/a>, and it was a convenient vehicle for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I had concerns. It seemed like the income kept falling and would keep falling if no one regulated the number of drivers. I was unsure about insurance coverage. Most of all, I felt like driving for Lyft was taking money out of the pockets of cab drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Lyft driver Dan Carrigan has some of the same concerns. He says he does not feel like his interests as an individual are a priority for the company, nor does he feel protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can only trust a process to a certain extent,” Carrigan says. “Nobody is taking care of you in this business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone with aspirations to be self-employed — an entrepreneur of some kind — Carrigan is drawn to the sharing economy. There seem to be all kinds of possibilities for people, like running errands on TaskRabbit, providing services through Fiverr, or cleaning houses for Handy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And the rates are going lower and lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft Says It’s Listening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says it listens to drivers, and that it has recently improved the tipping system. In the summer, Lyft let drivers keep all their earnings. But now it takes a 20 percent commission on each fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft representative Katie Dally told KQED via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lyft’s commission is 20 percent of each trip cost — and drivers keep 100 percent of tips from passengers. Lyft is also the only ridesharing platform to offer drivers an opportunity to earn a percentage of their weekly earnings as a bonus. The more drivers drive, the more they can earn, up to 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if they drive enough, they earn back the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he makes between $25 and $31 an hour, and that is before insurance, gas, taxes and car upkeep. It is less than I made a year ago, and Carrigan says the income continues to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10382936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10382936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. 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(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for earning the bonuses for logging more hours, Carrigan says that makes it more like a regular job, which is not what he signed up for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice to know that I could do this for a while without it changing,” Carrigan says, “but the way things are now, I’m looking for work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Union Organizing Begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, some drivers for Lyft’s competitor, Uber, are trying to organize a union so they can achieve more stability and a stronger voice within the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local chapter of the Teamsters union is giving them support and advice. Teamsters spokesman Galen Munroe says that when it comes down to it, this is just the same old story — companies using part-time workers to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These companies “don’t want the responsibilities or the costs associated with direct employees,” Munroe says, “and to a certain degree we feel that this is misclassification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a fine line between contract worker and employee, and it is causing trouble for these new gig sites. Uber faces \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250503465/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-12-14-Amended-Complaint\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, as does \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Handy-com-housecleaners-lawsuit-could-rock-5891672.php\">Handy\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/250504957/O-Connor-Et-Al-v-Uber-Technologies-Inc-Et-Al-11-25-14-Defendant-s-Answer-to-Amended-Complaint\">claims\u003c/a> are that they control workers like employees, but do not give them benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the dark side of these companies, says Gerald Friedman, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Friedman adds that by cleverly branding this work as the sharing economy, these tech companies are normalizing what is really unprotected, deregulated contract labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman says these tech platforms are “used to deny workers protections that we established in the New Deal era to protect people against unemployment, health crisis and to protect people’s work safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the gigs on these sites are pitched, Friedman says, sounds kind of like the worker utopia described by Karl Marx, where one could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do criticism in the evening, without having to become a hunter, a fisherman or a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of flexibility is desirable, he says, but in our modern capitalist society such gig work brings a harsh reality of less protection and more instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that charge, Lyft makes the case that its workers can purchase health insurance on their own now, with the Affordable Care Act. 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"content": "\u003cp>A 15-foot-tall roadside arch greets travelers as they roll into town: \"Welcome to Mojave, Home of SpaceShipOne.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was SpaceShipOne's sister craft, SpaceShipTwo, designed to ferry passengers into the heavens and back, that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/31/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-destroyed-in-test-flight\">crashed Oct. 31 during a test flight\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://mojaveairport.com/\">Mojave Air and Space Port\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One pilot was killed, another injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people observed the development of SpaceShipTwo and other experimental aircraft through the wide picture windows of The Voyager, a no-frills diner at the edge of the port's runway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/181956712\" 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>Stuart Witt, the facility’s CEO, stops by a table to chat with a member of the local Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witt hasn't talked much to reporters since the SpaceShipTwo crash. The weekend of the accident, he faced a phalanx of international media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The test community is very small. And we are human and it hurts,\" Witt told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lunch, Witt settles into an armchair in his office beneath the spaceport's control tower, surrounded by memorabilia from a lifetime in aviation. He's wary of talking at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A veteran pilot himself, Witt says the crash rocked the spaceport’s tight-knit community of fliers, engineers and entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When one of the companies has a good day, everybody comes out and celebrates with high-fives. Somebody has a bad day, everyone stands up and acknowledges it,\" says Witt. \"We’re in this together, that’s why permission is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Permission\u003c/em> is the one-word slogan Witt used to draw private space companies to this one-time Marine base and general aviation airport tucked way in the high desert 100 miles north of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The port is the first facility in the United States ever approved to conduct horizontal launches of reusable spacecrafts like SpaceShipTwo. Randa Milliron was among the first commercial space entrepreneurs to sign on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We built our first test site here in 1996,” says Milliron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband run \u003ca href=\"http://www.interorbital.com/\">Interorbital Systems\u003c/a>. It manufactures, among other things, small rocket-launched satellites for private, military and government use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a remote area with some facilities and an attitude of, ‘Do what you want, as long as it’s safe.’ Here we can work 24 hours a day. Nobody cares if you’re up in the middle of the night testing things,” says Milliron. “So it’s a freedom to try anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything\" includes much more than those small, softball-size satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a reach out into the solar system for human flight,\" Milliron says, adding the company hopes to participate in future lunar missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in the company’s rambling warehouse space, three Interorbital technicians tinker on the body of an ocean-launched rocket used to deliver satellites into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company employs a full-time staff of around six people, most in their mid-to-late 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are people who’ve usually worked in the standard aerospace industry, and they are tired of designing a bolt for their entire lives,” says Milliron. “They want to do something that’s more exciting, and they want to have hands-on experience with launch vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being laid off from a NASA job in Alabama, Nathan Chew moved to California to take a job with \u003ca href=\"http://www.xcor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">XCOR Aerospace\u003c/a>, another up-and-coming Mojave firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew also helps run the \u003ca href=\"http://mojavemakers.wordpress.com/\">Mojave Makers Space\u003c/a>, a kind of after-hours lab for spaceport engineers who want to burn off a little creative steam and tinker on their own projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10374205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Chew, left, and Brandon Larson outside the Mojave Makers Space workshop. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10374205\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-1440x984.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Chew, left, and Brandon Larson outside the Mojave Makers Space workshop. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Government aerospace is starting to give way to what commercial space is,” Chew says. “So that’s why I put in my chips and said, 'Let's see where these guys are going, and if we can make a sustainable and viable business case out of aerospace.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew’s partner at Mojave Makers is Brandon Larson. He’s worked for a couple of space tech companies in Mojave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now he’s tutoring science and engineering classes at the local high school and trying to scratch up investment cash for a research project involving cement that can be used on the surface of Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson says the SpaceShipTwo crash is a sobering reminder of the risks involved in doing this kind of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re test-flying new aircraft, crashes occur and test pilots unfortunately die -- it's part of the business,” says Larson. “But we learn what we can from it and move it. It’s a dangerous business, but the people involved know the risks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents of Mojave say they feel a kinship with the innovators working at the spaceport -- a connection made stronger by the SpaceShipTwo crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made us all realize that it’s not the people that work on the spaceport and the people that work in the community -- it's the same people,\" says Suzi Clipperton, a longtime guidance counselor with the Mojave Unified School District. \"I think everybody realized how close we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clipperton and her husband, Doug, also help run Revitalize Mojave, a group of residents and businesses trying to help the unincorporated community deal with a host of challenges. For instance, the need to house the area's rapidly growing workforce of young, well-paid aerospace workers. Most of that workforce now lives in bigger towns, such as Lancaster, which is 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody built the houses, they would sell,\" Doug Clipperton says. \"And of course that would bring in the businesses. If people could come home to a house in Mojave, rather than commuting someplace, it would pick up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mojave has other issues to overcome. Its unemployment rate hovers at around 12 percent. And about 40 percent of households have a median annual income of $20,000 or less. But engineer Larson, who chose to live in Mojave, says change is coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might have seen, if you drive around town, there’s some boarded-up buildings, empty lots. I helped clean up some of these properties. 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It manufactures, among other things, small rocket-launched satellites for private, military and government use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a remote area with some facilities and an attitude of, ‘Do what you want, as long as it’s safe.’ Here we can work 24 hours a day. Nobody cares if you’re up in the middle of the night testing things,” says Milliron. “So it’s a freedom to try anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything\" includes much more than those small, softball-size satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a reach out into the solar system for human flight,\" Milliron says, adding the company hopes to participate in future lunar missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in the company’s rambling warehouse space, three Interorbital technicians tinker on the body of an ocean-launched rocket used to deliver satellites into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company employs a full-time staff of around six people, most in their mid-to-late 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are people who’ve usually worked in the standard aerospace industry, and they are tired of designing a bolt for their entire lives,” says Milliron. “They want to do something that’s more exciting, and they want to have hands-on experience with launch vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being laid off from a NASA job in Alabama, Nathan Chew moved to California to take a job with \u003ca href=\"http://www.xcor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">XCOR Aerospace\u003c/a>, another up-and-coming Mojave firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew also helps run the \u003ca href=\"http://mojavemakers.wordpress.com/\">Mojave Makers Space\u003c/a>, a kind of after-hours lab for spaceport engineers who want to burn off a little creative steam and tinker on their own projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10374205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Chew, left, and Brandon Larson outside the Mojave Makers Space workshop. 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He’s worked for a couple of space tech companies in Mojave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now he’s tutoring science and engineering classes at the local high school and trying to scratch up investment cash for a research project involving cement that can be used on the surface of Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson says the SpaceShipTwo crash is a sobering reminder of the risks involved in doing this kind of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re test-flying new aircraft, crashes occur and test pilots unfortunately die -- it's part of the business,” says Larson. “But we learn what we can from it and move it. 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