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We think that 2022 represents the beginning of a different economic climate,” Collison wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salesforce: hundreds of jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Salesforce, which makes cloud-based business software, laid off some of its employees last week,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/salesforce-cut-hundreds-of-employees-on-monday.html\"> CNBC reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce said in a statement to NPR: “Our sales performance process drives accountability. Unfortunately, that can lead to some leaving the business, and we support them through their transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with the cuts said they affected hundreds of employees in the sales organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Microsoft: fewer than 1,000 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The software company made cuts across its divisions last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/10/18/microsoft-layoffs-latest-tech-firm-cuts\">Axios reported\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the companies that have announced the biggest job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Amazon: a reported 10,000 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The online retail and cloud computing behemoth plans to lay off some 10,000 employees in corporate and technology jobs,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html\"> \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>was the first to report\u003c/a> on Monday. Amazon did not reply to an NPR request for confirmation of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this fall, Amazon employed more than 1.5 million full- and part-time workers around the world, many in warehouses. The 10,000 expected layoffs would comprise about 3% of Amazon’s corporate employees, according to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>, and a significantly smaller share of its overall workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts reportedly will focus on Amazon’s devices division, including Alexa, the company’s virtual assistant technology, as well as its retail and human resources divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/a-note-about-hiring-from-beth-galetti\">announced a hiring freeze\u003c/a> on corporate jobs. “We’re facing an unusual macro-economic environment, and want to balance our hiring and investments with being thoughtful about this economy,” wrote Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meta: 11,000 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, laid off 11,000 people last week — about 13% of its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Mark Zuckerberg attributed the cuts to overhiring during the pandemic. In a letter to staff\u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/\"> posted to the corporate website\u003c/a>, he cited a decline in e-commerce, the wider economic downturn, increased competition, and a decline in ad sales–the primary way the company makes money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a man in a black turtleneck explains something on a screen\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/ap21301632297030-daf49027eb5fc1b24525559960a695c71474bb4e-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made big investments in the “metaverse,” which he showed off during a virtual event last year. Last week, Zuckerberg announced the company was laying off 13% of its staff. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The layoffs come as the company has invested billions in the so-called metaverse, pitched as a virtual-reality future in which people will work, mingle, exercise and go to concerts. But it’s an unproven bet on the future, and not all everyone is convinced it should be the social media company’s focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg said the workforce cuts would affect the whole organization, with recruiting staff disproportionately affected due to fewer hires anticipated in the coming year. A hiring freeze through the first quarter of 2023 will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Twitter: about 3,700 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bought the social media platform at the end of October and wasted no time slashing its workforce. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1132153277/elon-musk-takes-control-of-twitter-and-immediately-ousts-top-executives\">immediately ousted\u003c/a> the company’s leadership, including its CEO, CFO, and top lawyer. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134263184/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk\">Mass layoffs were announced\u003c/a> on November 4, with about 50% of the staff cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,”\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588671155766194176\"> Musk tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600\">tweeted \u003c/a>that he accepted blame for hiring too many workers in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter — which he tried to get out of for several months — has saddled the company with $13 billion of new debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His short tenure at the top of Twitter has been marked by hasty changes quickly halted, including his plan for a revamped Twitter Blue verification service, which charged $8 a month to get a blue checkmark on one’s account. Accounts impersonating celebrities, major corporations, and Musk himself proliferated immediately, spurring Twitter to halt Twitter Blue signups\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/timeline-elon-musks-chaotic-twitter-blue-verification-rollout-2022-11\"> twice within a week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key executives who were not fired, including Twitter’s head of content moderation and safety on the platform, and the company’s chief privacy officer and compliance officer,\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/\"> resigned last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stripe: about 1,000 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Payment processing platform Stripe\u003ca href=\"https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees\"> announced on November 3\u003c/a> that it was cutting 14% of its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stripe CEO Patrick Collison wrote in an email to employees that the pandemic pushed the world toward e-commerce, spurring the company’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CEO said he and his brother and co-founder John Collison had made “two very consequential mistakes”: being too optimistic about the internet economy’s near-term growth, and growing Stripe’s operating costs too quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are facing stubborn inflation, energy shocks, higher interest rates, reduced investment budgets, and sparser startup funding. … [M]any parts of the developed world appear to be headed for recession. We think that 2022 represents the beginning of a different economic climate,” Collison wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salesforce: hundreds of jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Salesforce, which makes cloud-based business software, laid off some of its employees last week,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/salesforce-cut-hundreds-of-employees-on-monday.html\"> CNBC reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce said in a statement to NPR: “Our sales performance process drives accountability. Unfortunately, that can lead to some leaving the business, and we support them through their transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with the cuts said they affected hundreds of employees in the sales organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Microsoft: fewer than 1,000 jobs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The software company made cuts across its divisions last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/10/18/microsoft-layoffs-latest-tech-firm-cuts\">Axios reported\u003c/a>. Fewer than 1,000 jobs were cut, a source told Axios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A request for confirmation of the layoffs was not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zillow, Snap and Robinhood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Zillow, the online real estate marketplace, laid off 300 of its employees late last month, TechCrunch \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/zillow-layoff-300-employees/\">reported\u003c/a>. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051941654/zillow-will-stop-buying-and-renovating-homes-and-cut-25-of-its-workforce\">laid off 25% of its workforce \u003c/a>a year ago as it shuttered its instant buying service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snap, the company behind Snapchat, said at the end of August that it was \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.snap.com/en-US/restructuring-and-refocusing-our-business\">cutting its workforce by 20%\u003c/a>. 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One group serving unhoused people is in the dark over whether a $175,000 program to help families learn digital skills will move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the total amount Twitter donates to local nonprofits currently isn’t known, \u003ca href=\"https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/our-commitment-to-san-francisco\">a 2015 Twitter blog post projected donations of more than $900,000 annually by 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter has publicly committed to being a good neighbor in San Francisco, concentrating both philanthropy and volunteerism on people who live in, and groups serving, the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Murakami, chief development officer of Swords to Plowshares, said their organization has the financial means to take the $10,000 hit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/11/08/2551246/0/en/Swords-to-Plowshares-Hosts-26th-Annual-Veterans-Day-Concert-Reception.html\">which was intended to help pay for a Veterans Day gala this week\u003c/a>. But, she said, she’s never seen an abrupt cancellation of a sizable donation in her years of nonprofit work — even during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a first and it just feels unethical and wrong. And that’s why we wanted to raise the issue, not because we care about the $10,000,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PIT-Key-Findings-Briefing-Deck-web.pdf\">605 unhoused veterans in San Francisco (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the latest annual point-in-time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vetshelpingvets/status/1590800711834832896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murakami said their organization honored Twitter for their donation at a Veterans Day gala on Wednesday. San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke at the event, and more than $400,000 was raised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-veterans-apartments-17575222.php\">further the organization’s efforts to house and comfort veterans, particularly unhoused veterans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the organization received this email from a member of the Twitter for Good team describing an “indefinite pause”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u003cem>I hope this email finds you well. I am so glad to hear that yesterday’s event went well. 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Happy Veterans Day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another email, Twitter referred to the action as a “cancellation notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter did not return a request for comment, nor did they clarify whether the cessation of the $10,000 donation is temporary or permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/4/23439790/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-trust-and-safety-teams-severance\">Twitter has laid off most, if not all, of its communications team\u003c/a>, according to news reports. The philanthropy-focused Twitter for Good team itself may also be gone, save for its lead, according to multiple nonprofit organizations who have spoken to former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter did not confirm those layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TwitterForGood/status/1578209835350269953\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla founder Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter in late October to much fanfare and worry. While Musk promised to make Twitter a bastion of free speech, the platform was quickly met with mounting woes: wary advertisers backing away from the company, mass layoffs, and concern from President Joe Biden that Musk’s takeover is “worthy of being looked at” \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/business/musks-twitter-buyout-could-be-looked-at-as-national-security-risk-says-biden/\">as a national security risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Twitter’s new boss has generated international ripples, the epicenter of the disruption is in San Francisco, where it is headquartered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of San Francisco’s most impoverished people live in the proverbial shadow of the Twitter building in the mid-Market neighborhood, and the neighborhoods around it. And now Musk’s new direction for the company may imperil funds meant to help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations tackling homelessness to those training marginalized youth in tech-sector skills have all been past recipients of Twitter help. These include Compass Family Services, Glide, Dev/Mission, Catholic Charities, Code Tenderloin, the Bay Area Video Coalition and the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/satanjeev/status/997531639327612929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E997531639327612929%7Ctwgr%5E6c8761003561ed85fc5551c3ac4e13c194d04b26%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.glide.org%2Fdata-for-good-glide-and-twitter-team-up-on-a-skills-based-volunteering-journey%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swords to Plowshares’ Murakami is worried that other San Francisco groups may see their donations from Twitter evaporate, since the email sent to her organization from Twitter mentioned additional donations being affected, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m concerned about all the other agreements that Twitter has with the community, particularly those in the Tenderloin and, you know, all the housing providers,” Murakami said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compass Family services is one such group. The mission of the more-than-100-year-old organization is to help unhoused and housing-insecure families, and with Twitter they did so through an annual “Twitter NeighborNest” program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families have made over 17,000 visits to the program since 2015, according to Compass, learning technology skills like digital literacy in both English and Spanish. Child care was provided, and parents at risk of losing their housing were also taught how to search for much-needed housing online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a way for the technology workers of Twitter to reach out and interact with their neighbors, some of whom could use their help, said Madeleine Lemos, a spokesperson for Compass Family Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Twitter employee that I’ve ever talked to after a volunteer event told me how much they loved getting to meet our families, getting to meet our children and getting to take part in that,” she said. “So in addition to just the actual tangible skills and technology access it gave our family, it really was a place of community for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On hiatus since the pandemic, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.compass-sf.org/neighbornest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter NeighborNest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was slated to reopen next week. Now, the $175,000 program — not counting Twitter’s in-kind donations of a facility and staff volunteer hours — is in limbo. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Twitter staff who normally communicate with Compass Family Services on the program have apparently been laid off, and no one else has reached out in their place. Lemos said the organization has been grateful to Twitter for its past support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As of now, we aren’t really sure who to have a conversation with about the future of the nest,” Lemos said. “We are really hoping that this program can continue, that it can serve our families as both a space where they can have computer access, workforce development and job training, as well as child care. It’s a really wonderful space for our clients and our families to be able to use. And we’d love to see a good future with Twitter in the space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “As of now, unfortunately, we don’t know what that future is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least one other recent event was affected: an annual holiday lunch for veterans held in mid-December, which has served the Tenderloin, Mission and South of Market areas for about 40 years. It’s co-hosted by Del Seymour, the noted executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codetenderloin.org/team\">Code Tenderloin\u003c/a>, in conjunction with Swords to Plowshares.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter was set to pay for catering the event, but now that commitment is in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate,” Seymour said. “The holiday time is when veterans suffer the most, where all our unhoused people suffer the most. These vets look forward to the event. We do it every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not every organization has seen a direct impact to their bottom line yet. Just a week ago, Leo Sosa, founder of Dev/Mission, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TwitterForGood/status/1585738824830722048\">handed out laptops\u003c/a> to San Francisco families that were donated by Twitter for Good. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that event was October 27, a week before the staffing layoffs, and subsequent maelstrom, hit Twitter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932066 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people almost all wearing black stand behind a long counter preparing food to serve. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter employees cater food to veterans at the Edwin M. Lee Apartments with Swords to Plowshares in September this year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Swords to Plowshares)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seymour said Tw\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">itter is usually a generous neighbor. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey gave Seymour $1 million, which Seymour will use to help buy a building for the organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twitter has been a wonderful community partner,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That track record may end under the recent Musk takeover, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seymour, who is a veteran himself, put Twitter’s lack of follow-through on philanthropic donations this way: “Whether it’s a dollar or a million dollars, I think it’s pretty chickenshit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The mission of the more-than-100-year-old organization is to help unhoused and housing-insecure families, and with Twitter they did so through an annual “Twitter NeighborNest” program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families have made over 17,000 visits to the program since 2015, according to Compass, learning technology skills like digital literacy in both English and Spanish. Child care was provided, and parents at risk of losing their housing were also taught how to search for much-needed housing online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a way for the technology workers of Twitter to reach out and interact with their neighbors, some of whom could use their help, said Madeleine Lemos, a spokesperson for Compass Family Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Twitter employee that I’ve ever talked to after a volunteer event told me how much they loved getting to meet our families, getting to meet our children and getting to take part in that,” she said. “So in addition to just the actual tangible skills and technology access it gave our family, it really was a place of community for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On hiatus since the pandemic, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.compass-sf.org/neighbornest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter NeighborNest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was slated to reopen next week. Now, the $175,000 program — not counting Twitter’s in-kind donations of a facility and staff volunteer hours — is in limbo. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Twitter staff who normally communicate with Compass Family Services on the program have apparently been laid off, and no one else has reached out in their place. Lemos said the organization has been grateful to Twitter for its past support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As of now, we aren’t really sure who to have a conversation with about the future of the nest,” Lemos said. “We are really hoping that this program can continue, that it can serve our families as both a space where they can have computer access, workforce development and job training, as well as child care. It’s a really wonderful space for our clients and our families to be able to use. And we’d love to see a good future with Twitter in the space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “As of now, unfortunately, we don’t know what that future is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least one other recent event was affected: an annual holiday lunch for veterans held in mid-December, which has served the Tenderloin, Mission and South of Market areas for about 40 years. It’s co-hosted by Del Seymour, the noted executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codetenderloin.org/team\">Code Tenderloin\u003c/a>, in conjunction with Swords to Plowshares.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter was set to pay for catering the event, but now that commitment is in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate,” Seymour said. “The holiday time is when veterans suffer the most, where all our unhoused people suffer the most. These vets look forward to the event. 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Just a week ago, Leo Sosa, founder of Dev/Mission, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TwitterForGood/status/1585738824830722048\">handed out laptops\u003c/a> to San Francisco families that were donated by Twitter for Good. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that event was October 27, a week before the staffing layoffs, and subsequent maelstrom, hit Twitter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11932066 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people almost all wearing black stand behind a long counter preparing food to serve. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/52353533308_f8bb634a2b_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter employees cater food to veterans at the Edwin M. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mass layoffs at Twitter under Elon Musk are putting an unknown number of Bay Area residents out of a job and placing the future of the company’s San Francisco headquarters in the mid-Market neighborhood in question. The recent upheaval and chaos surrounding Musk’s Twitter takeover are also raising concerns about the future of mid-Market itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter’s move to mid-Market in 2011 sparked dramatic changes in the struggling neighborhood, which in 2010 had the highest commercial vacancy rate in San Francisco. Many buildings — including the one Twitter moved into, originally a Depression-era showroom known as the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart — had experienced nearly 50 years of office vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11753060,forum_2010101891137,forum_2010101891200\"]In a push to revitalize the district’s economy by attracting new businesses to the area, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2011 approved a controversial six-year payroll tax break for companies in the neighborhood; the policy was championed by leaders including then-Mayor Ed Lee. It would come to be known as “the Twitter tax break,” and quickly drew criticism from residents who saw it as corporate welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We wanted to see] greater activation of that corridor, attracting business and jobs … building a more robust local economy for our small businesses that were located on the mid-Market corridor,” said former District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who backed the legislation, in an interview with KQED’s Tara Siler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope was that we would attract more workers, more residents into an area that had felt desolate and wasn’t attracting a ton of commuters,” she said. “Ultimately, we were successful — Twitter did attract a number of businesses to the mid-Market corridor when they decided to move in, and [it] did spur a lot of residential development in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs.html\">Elon Musk laying off an estimated 50% of Twitter staff\u003c/a> — along with \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2022/11/03/tech-company-layoffs-are-a-recession-signal-apple-stripe-lyft-amazon-twitter/\">other major layoffs\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931727/meta-layoffs-11000-jobs-mark-zuckerberg-responsibility\">tech companies in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and beyond — the future of mid-Market is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"the Twitter building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Twitter building in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s certainly a net negative when our fastest-growing industry is beginning layoffs,” said Kim. “That being said, I don’t believe we need to be sounding the alarm bells. And I don’t think any of us ever thought that the incredible boom that we saw between 2012 and 2020 would continue indefinitely. There was always a sense that a market correction was coming, and this is certainly the market correction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the question is, how big will this recession be, and how big will the impacts of the layoffs continue to be here in San Francisco?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a range of concerns regarding new management at Twitter and the future of the neighborhood, current District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey sees an upside to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and what it means for mid-Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that there’s a lot of big global issues about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, what it’s going to mean for public debate and for democracy,” said Dorsey. “It’s concerning whenever there is any kind of a layoff, let alone a mass layoff like this, where we’re talking about 784 employees in one San Francisco office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a sign that says 'good things come to those who stay' on an apartment building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for an apartment building across from the Twitter building on Market Street in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But there’s also a neighborhood here, and we want people to come back to work because we want small businesses to thrive,” he said. “So there is, I think, a silver lining to the bad news about the mass layoffs, as Elon Musk has made clear that he wants Twitter employees to come back to the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others think a completely new approach is needed for mid-Market — one that is less reliant on tech companies and the traditional 9-to-5 work crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the model that we really need to be moving toward is having a much more mixed-use downtown,” said Honey Mahogany, who is running against Dorsey for District 6 supervisor. (As of Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco#district-6\">Dorsey led by about 1,400 points\u003c/a>.) “I think that if we make downtown more residential mixed-use with office and also nightlife, arts and culture and all the things that make the south of Market so special, that will create a thriving neighborhood that actually supports those businesses that are there — not just 9-to-5, but seven days a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"an office building with a sign that it's available for sale\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building available for lease on Market Street in the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two closely affiliated organizations — the Mid-Market Business Association and the Mid-Market Foundation — have sought to revitalize and transform the area, starting with a focus on safety. A pilot program of safety ambassadors is aimed at making the area attractive not just economically but socially and artistically, said Steve Gibson, executive director of both MMBA and the MMF — turning it into a vibrant, multifaceted community where people live, work and play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we have 40% vacancy in storefronts, and that’s bad,” said Gibson. “But it’s also a lot of opportunity to place new activities and new businesses. We just received a $50,000 grant from the city to work on this. We are looking at the strengths of Market, which has always had a strong presence of the arts. We’re working that into the fabric more and attracting more of those businesses and elements. We believe that Market’s going to be a place that you engage in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a man in sunglasses walks down a city street\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Gibson, executive director of the Mid-Market Business Association and the Mid-Market Foundation, walks on Market Street in the mid-Market area of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gibson plans on addressing the current high levels of storefront vacancies with more restaurants, music and art businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to do it differently than it has been done before. You have to think out of the box when it comes to mid-Market,” said Gibson. “There’s got to be a lot more creativity and imagination, and we have to think how [mid-Market] is going to be different from Union Square, different from downtown. The offering has to be unique to attract people to spend time in mid-Market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Honey Mahogany is elected supervisor, her vision might complement that of Gibson and the work the MMBA and MMF are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Steve Gibson, executive director, Mid-Market Business Association and Mid-Market Foundation\"]‘You have to think out of the box when it comes to mid-Market. There’s got to be a lot more creativity and imagination.’[/pullquote]“It’s interesting, because even though we’re seeing sort of the exodus of some types of businesses or tech, I think there’s a tremendous opportunity to actually grow in other sectors,” said Mahogany. “For example, right now we see the intense pressures brought on by climate change, and we have solutions that are in the making right here in the Bay Area. We have a growing sector in the climate tech industry, and some of it is based here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, said Mahogany, some of those companies are moving out of San Francisco and to places like the Peninsula due to zoning and other issues. “Really taking this opportunity to encourage those companies to stay here in San Francisco and expand might actually change things for us,” said Mahogany. “Not only would it provide a great tax base for the city, but it would also … require people to be there in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Steve Gibson still sees the big tech businesses as crucial to the fabric of mid-Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have the large tech offices back. Those are customers. Some of them will be back. A lot are downsizing,” he said. “We miss them. But again, we have to look for other customer bases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"the front of a restaurant\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chai Bar in the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Lowe, owner of Chai Bar, located at 1019 Market Street, says his business won’t be affected as much by the mass layoffs as it was by the pandemic. When tech companies allowed employees to work from home, he said, it hit businesses hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mid-Market neighborhood shut down in 2020 and it hasn’t come back,” said Lowe. “Sales are a third of what they were … When you’re in a business like ours, we don’t necessarily draw tech workers from five blocks away from Twitter headquarters. Our impact is from the two-block radius of our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When foot traffic from tourists and tech employees in the area essentially stopped during 2020, Lowe was able to renegotiate the lease for Chai Bar with an asset manager from Deutsche Bank, who own the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were losing more money being open than being closed,” said Lowe. “At one point, our gross sales was less than $250. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a push to revitalize the district’s economy by attracting new businesses to the area, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2011 approved a controversial six-year payroll tax break for companies in the neighborhood; the policy was championed by leaders including then-Mayor Ed Lee. It would come to be known as “the Twitter tax break,” and quickly drew criticism from residents who saw it as corporate welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We wanted to see] greater activation of that corridor, attracting business and jobs … building a more robust local economy for our small businesses that were located on the mid-Market corridor,” said former District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who backed the legislation, in an interview with KQED’s Tara Siler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope was that we would attract more workers, more residents into an area that had felt desolate and wasn’t attracting a ton of commuters,” she said. “Ultimately, we were successful — Twitter did attract a number of businesses to the mid-Market corridor when they decided to move in, and [it] did spur a lot of residential development in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/technology/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs.html\">Elon Musk laying off an estimated 50% of Twitter staff\u003c/a> — along with \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2022/11/03/tech-company-layoffs-are-a-recession-signal-apple-stripe-lyft-amazon-twitter/\">other major layoffs\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931727/meta-layoffs-11000-jobs-mark-zuckerberg-responsibility\">tech companies in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and beyond — the future of mid-Market is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"the Twitter building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/005_KQED_Twitter_11072022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Twitter building in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s certainly a net negative when our fastest-growing industry is beginning layoffs,” said Kim. “That being said, I don’t believe we need to be sounding the alarm bells. And I don’t think any of us ever thought that the incredible boom that we saw between 2012 and 2020 would continue indefinitely. There was always a sense that a market correction was coming, and this is certainly the market correction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the question is, how big will this recession be, and how big will the impacts of the layoffs continue to be here in San Francisco?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a range of concerns regarding new management at Twitter and the future of the neighborhood, current District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey sees an upside to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and what it means for mid-Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that there’s a lot of big global issues about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, what it’s going to mean for public debate and for democracy,” said Dorsey. “It’s concerning whenever there is any kind of a layoff, let alone a mass layoff like this, where we’re talking about 784 employees in one San Francisco office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a sign that says 'good things come to those who stay' on an apartment building\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60032_001_KQED_MidMarketSF_11072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for an apartment building across from the Twitter building on Market Street in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But there’s also a neighborhood here, and we want people to come back to work because we want small businesses to thrive,” he said. “So there is, I think, a silver lining to the bad news about the mass layoffs, as Elon Musk has made clear that he wants Twitter employees to come back to the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others think a completely new approach is needed for mid-Market — one that is less reliant on tech companies and the traditional 9-to-5 work crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the model that we really need to be moving toward is having a much more mixed-use downtown,” said Honey Mahogany, who is running against Dorsey for District 6 supervisor. (As of Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco#district-6\">Dorsey led by about 1,400 points\u003c/a>.) “I think that if we make downtown more residential mixed-use with office and also nightlife, arts and culture and all the things that make the south of Market so special, that will create a thriving neighborhood that actually supports those businesses that are there — not just 9-to-5, but seven days a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"an office building with a sign that it's available for sale\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60027_018_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building available for lease on Market Street in the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two closely affiliated organizations — the Mid-Market Business Association and the Mid-Market Foundation — have sought to revitalize and transform the area, starting with a focus on safety. A pilot program of safety ambassadors is aimed at making the area attractive not just economically but socially and artistically, said Steve Gibson, executive director of both MMBA and the MMF — turning it into a vibrant, multifaceted community where people live, work and play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we have 40% vacancy in storefronts, and that’s bad,” said Gibson. “But it’s also a lot of opportunity to place new activities and new businesses. We just received a $50,000 grant from the city to work on this. We are looking at the strengths of Market, which has always had a strong presence of the arts. We’re working that into the fabric more and attracting more of those businesses and elements. We believe that Market’s going to be a place that you engage in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a man in sunglasses walks down a city street\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60014_002_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Gibson, executive director of the Mid-Market Business Association and the Mid-Market Foundation, walks on Market Street in the mid-Market area of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gibson plans on addressing the current high levels of storefront vacancies with more restaurants, music and art businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to do it differently than it has been done before. You have to think out of the box when it comes to mid-Market,” said Gibson. “There’s got to be a lot more creativity and imagination, and we have to think how [mid-Market] is going to be different from Union Square, different from downtown. The offering has to be unique to attract people to spend time in mid-Market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Honey Mahogany is elected supervisor, her vision might complement that of Gibson and the work the MMBA and MMF are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s interesting, because even though we’re seeing sort of the exodus of some types of businesses or tech, I think there’s a tremendous opportunity to actually grow in other sectors,” said Mahogany. “For example, right now we see the intense pressures brought on by climate change, and we have solutions that are in the making right here in the Bay Area. We have a growing sector in the climate tech industry, and some of it is based here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, said Mahogany, some of those companies are moving out of San Francisco and to places like the Peninsula due to zoning and other issues. “Really taking this opportunity to encourage those companies to stay here in San Francisco and expand might actually change things for us,” said Mahogany. “Not only would it provide a great tax base for the city, but it would also … require people to be there in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Steve Gibson still sees the big tech businesses as crucial to the fabric of mid-Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have the large tech offices back. Those are customers. Some of them will be back. A lot are downsizing,” he said. “We miss them. But again, we have to look for other customer bases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"the front of a restaurant\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60017_005_KQED_MidMarketSF_11092022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chai Bar in the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Lowe, owner of Chai Bar, located at 1019 Market Street, says his business won’t be affected as much by the mass layoffs as it was by the pandemic. When tech companies allowed employees to work from home, he said, it hit businesses hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mid-Market neighborhood shut down in 2020 and it hasn’t come back,” said Lowe. “Sales are a third of what they were … When you’re in a business like ours, we don’t necessarily draw tech workers from five blocks away from Twitter headquarters. Our impact is from the two-block radius of our space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When foot traffic from tourists and tech employees in the area essentially stopped during 2020, Lowe was able to renegotiate the lease for Chai Bar with an asset manager from Deutsche Bank, who own the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were losing more money being open than being closed,” said Lowe. “At one point, our gross sales was less than $250. Paying staff costs twice that amount in a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Lowe is optimistic about the future of mid-Market, and says he’s already seeing changes to a neighborhood that has faced issues with crime and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a done deal. Elon Musk now owns San Francisco-based Twitter. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\">closed the $44 billion deal last week and quickly fired the company’s top executives\u003c/a>. Some users are already leaving the social media platform in protest, fearing a rise in hate speech — \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431337/twitter-hateful-tweets-elon-musk-takeover-free-speech\">a fear that already proved well-founded by Monday\u003c/a>, as Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, said the platform was seeing an influx of tweets containing slurs and derogatory terms. In short, there’s quite a bit of chaos — not least because Musk himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/musk-seeks-to-stop-oct-17-trial-date-to-close-twitter-deal-on-original-terms.html\">tried to back out of the deal just a few weeks prior\u003c/a>. So why did he go through with it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p3-0\"}]'>He signed a contract,” said Jeremy Owens, technology editor and San Francisco bureau chief for MarketWatch, in a recent interview with KQED’s Tara Siler. “\u003c/span>This is one of the dumbest acquisitions since AOL Time Warner. He’s paying four or five times what Twitter is worth to own this. I’m not surprised he tried to get out of it. But, you know, there are some rules in this country that are followed. And one of them is if you sign a contract to do something, you’re probably going to have to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Twitter employees, regular users, journalists and advertisers wait nervously to see what Musk will do next, there were a lot of questions on everyone’s mind, the first of which might be: Why Twitter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wants attention,” said Owens. “We’ve seen a cavalcade of billionaires buying media outlets. But Elon especially, he just wants the spotlight on him and he finds ways to get the spotlight on him. Now he has it, we’ll see what he does with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the $44 billion question. Speculation is rife; expectations vary. Some have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-25/conservatives-elon-musk-twitter\">praised the takeover as a victory for freedom of speech\u003c/a>, while others fear \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/\">things may already be headed for the worst\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jeremy Owens, technology editor and San Francisco bureau chief, MarketWatch\"]‘This is one of the dumbest acquisitions since AOL Time Warner.’[/pullquote]“It’s kind of impossible to know,” said Owens. “I stress to everybody they shouldn’t believe what Elon Musk says. He says a lot of things that are contradictory. A lot of them are fantastical. I mean, we’re not seeing Teslas rolling around as robotaxis making money for their owners in their sleep, like he said would be happening by now. We’re really going to have to wait and see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Musk said he plans to create a “content moderation council” on Twitter, he has also said he would loosen the rules on what users can say on the platform, and although he has often been referred to as a libertarian, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/business/elon-musk-politics-twitter.html\">his political views remain hazy\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/5/23389568/musk-twitter-signal-deleted-messages-judge-ruling\">lawsuit brought against Musk by Twitter\u003c/a> after Musk rescinded his offer to buy the company in April revealed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/elon-musk-twitter-texts-ranked-17494691.php\">texts with friends and associates\u003c/a> that provide a premonition of things to come — both in terms of what was said and\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/elon-musk-caught-deleting-messages-about-the-twitter-deal.html\"> what was not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Musk has praised the acquisition of right-wing social media app Parler by Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1132222606/twitter-account-elon-musk-content-moderation-council\">he announced Friday that Ye’s blocked account on Twitter had been reinstated\u003c/a>, days after the singer/songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/1131285970/adidas-ye-kanye-west-antisemitic\">drew international ire over antisemitic remarks and comments on slavery\u003c/a>. Musk has also said Twitter was wrong to ban former President Donald Trump — who has since founded the right-wing social media platform Truth Social — after the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Musk stated back in May that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/10/musk-talk-twitter/\">he would restore Trump’s account\u003c/a>. Then, on October 18, Musk posted and later deleted\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-meme-kanye-donald-trump-three-musketeers-parler-2022-10\"> a meme depicting the three social media platform owners — Musk, Ye and Trump — as “The Three Musketeers,”\u003c/a> tweeting “in retrospect, it was inevitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Musk has been critical of Trump’s Truth Social, calling it a “right-wing echo chamber,” the celebration of Musk’s Twitter takeover by right-wing and conservative pundits and media since Thursday has worried Twitter users that the network will become more racist, sexist and toxic. 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