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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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"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. 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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. 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Santa Clara County lost about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Census-Bay-Area-counties-shrink-Santa-Clara-2654647.php\">12,500 residents in one year\u003c/a> and San Francisco nearly that many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why that happened -- and whether we're in for a repeat -- let's take a quick trip back to that giddy, effervescent era.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8F4LiqYzBZY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Britney Spears' \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow\">Oops! ... I Did it Again\u003c/a>\" played over and over on the radio. President Bill Clinton declared the state of the union the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_qI3yzCLk\">strongest it's ever been.\u003c/a>\" And America's favorite TV pitchman was a sock puppet -- the manic mascot for Pets.com, a new pet food and supply delivery company based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://techland.time.com/2012/02/01/super-bowl-tech-ads-survivors-and-casualties-over-the-years/slide/pets-com-2000/#./?&_suid=142179893279608677293582612844\">multimillion-dollar commercials\u003c/a> made the puppet so popular that he appeared on prime-time talk shows and even had his own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. But Pets.com imploded the same year it went public. 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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://techland.time.com/2012/02/01/super-bowl-tech-ads-survivors-and-casualties-over-the-years/slide/pets-com-2000/#./?&_suid=142179893279608677293582612844\">multimillion-dollar commercials\u003c/a> made the puppet so popular that he appeared on prime-time talk shows and even had his own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. But Pets.com imploded the same year it went public. Today, at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerhistory.org/\">Computer History Museum in Mountain View\u003c/a>, the sock puppet sits in a glass case in an exhibit on the dot-com boom and bust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really cute character,\" said Marc Weber, the founding curator of the museum's Internet history program. \"But they spent so much money on these kinds of things that there was less left over for actually building a viable business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pets.com is a prime example of the sort of magical thinking that led to so many dot-com failures and sent the NASDAQ plunging almost 80 percent in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the boom, a lot of companies didn’t have a concrete idea of how they would actually make money,\" Weber explains. \"So the business model -- if you want to call it that -- was to build a brand, get more and more eyeballs coming to your site, and look for more investment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were the early days of Internet commerce -- basically, uncharted territory. Excitement over the mere potential of the Web swept up both seasoned investors and the eager young college and business school graduates who flocked to the Bay Area for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania resident Jessica Downey said she was just 23 when a startup technology magazine lured her to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had huge launch parties,\" Downey recalled. \"There were runway models and sword swallowers. It was completely surreal and unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the magazine went bust about seven months after it launched, Downey said. Bay Area rents plummeted as she and thousands of other unemployed tech workers headed back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Going across 80, you would pass five or six other Ryder Trucks going back to the East Coast,\" she said. \"There just weren't jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bubble 2.0?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jobs are back. 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. For the most part, startups have real business plans, which investors scrutinize with a much more skeptical eye than they did in the Pets.com era. And, even if there were a crash, tech now overlaps with so many other business sectors that it's too diverse and complex to bring down in one fell swoop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levy said he's not worried about a sudden burst. What does keep him up at night is the state of the Bay Area's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I worry that we're not going to build enough housing, that we're not going to increase transportation capacity either on the roads or Caltrain or BART,\" Levy said. \"I worry that companies that want to be here won't be able to because we can't or are not willing to house the growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you're among those hoping to see your rents drop suddenly like they did back in 2001, sorry to burst your bubble. Perhaps the better question is whether the tech industry will outgrow the Bay Area, prompting the next generation of companies to take their talent — and their tax dollars — somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. Barbara Boxer to step aside when her term ends. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/13/kamala-harris-launches-bid-for-united-states-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Does Kamala Harris have a geographic advantage in Senate race?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(The Grizzly Bear Project)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Attorney General Kamala Harris may have a head start in her race for the U.S. Senate, and not just because she announced her candidacy first. Los Angeles County is home to more than 26% of all Californians. But when it comes to running for statewide office, being from Los Angeles may be more of an obstacle than a political advantage. While the people may be in Los Angeles, the largest chunk of the state’s voters – those who actually cast ballots — come from the nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"http://www.grizzlybearproject.com/does-harris-have-geographic-advantage-in-race-for-u-s-senate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hayes Valley vigil for victims in quadruple murder\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some 100 people gathered Monday night to march against gun violence from the Western Addition to Page and Laguna streets — the corner where four men were shot dead over the weekend while sitting in a car. District 5 Supervisor London Breed, community activist Mattie Scott, and the Rev. Amos Brown of Third Baptist Church of San Francisco led the evening’s prayer vigil and march from the African American Cultural Center to Hayes Valley. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/01/13/community-remembers-hayes-valley-shooting-victims-in-evening-vigil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Union expanding organizing drive for tech shuttle drivers\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A local union has put a host of prominent tech companies on notice that the drivers who ferry their employees to and from work want to organize. The Teamsters sent letters last week to the CEOs of Amtrak, Apple, eBay, Genentech, Yahoo and Zynga informing them that their contract shuttle bus drivers would like to join the union and urging them to show their support, said Rome Aloise, international vice president and secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27306424/union-seeks-organize-more-shuttle-bus-drivers-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Can government prove Silk Road suspect is ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Ars Technica)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old Texan who prosecutors say was the mastermind of the drug trafficking website, has remained steadfast in his innocence since his arrest more than a year ago. Barring a last-minute deal, his fate will soon be in the hands of a jury. If convicted, he faces decades in prison. \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/who-was-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-as-trial-nears-a-jury-will-decide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Apple used Martin Luther King Jr. in ads, but does not observe his holiday\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(ValleyWag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Martin Luther King Jr. Day happens a week from today, on Monday Jan. 19. But it’s not a holiday for the loyal employees of Apple. They have to go to work. MLK Day is a federal holiday, meaning government offices are closed. Companies don’t have to observe the holiday, but many do, if only because it seems like the right thing to do. In Silicon Valley, where companies have been taking heat for their incredible lack of diversity, observing the MLK Day holiday seems like a smart move if only for the sake of “optics,” as they say. Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo all give employees the day off. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/apple-used-mlk-in-ads-but-does-not-observe-his-holiday-1677947712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>How customer service declines in a boom\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A recent (and irritating) visit to Starbucks highlights the two most obvious downsides of Silicon Valley booms (and yes, we’re in a boom, though it is far from benefiting everyone). Think of them as Newtonian laws of daily irritation. The first is that traffic gets worse — much worse. The second is that customer service declines, particularly at places like Starbucks. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold/ci_27305949/herhold-how-customer-service-declines-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Giants plan pop-up beer garden, shopping complex in parking lot\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(CBS San Francisco)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A proposed project which would create a mini “pop-up village” in a parking lot by AT&T Park is scheduled to be considered by the San Francisco Port Commission on Tuesday. 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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. 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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>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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan started by trying to rent out his apartment on Airbnb, but he stopped because he was worried about getting evicted. So now he is driving for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/01/HarnettSharingEcoStruggles2014.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrigan says he drives to pay his bills. 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. 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. (Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS13765_Dan-Carrigan.JPG.jpg-alt_209.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Carrigan drives for Lyft to help pay the bills. (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. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Lyft-plays-Whac-a-Mole-with-regulators-nationwide-5958762.php\">company says\u003c/a> drivers work for them precisely because they don’t want an employer, or because they already have one and just want to make money on the side. The point here is the freedom that Lyft provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on Taxi Drivers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\">Of course what may be freedom for the ride-service drivers has impacts on others,\u003c/a> such as San Francisco cabbie Harbir Batth. He says taxi drivers in this city used to have the kind of gig advertised by these tech companies: flexible decent pay, plus even some protection and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never had a union. It is kind of a self-employed industry,” Batth says. “Everybody is divided. 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}
}
