[Editor’s Note: With the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee scheduled on Monday, July 7, to act on a proposal to allow the new owner of the San Francisco Design Center to evict existing tenants to accommodate tech company Pinterest, Jim Gallagher of Garden Court Antiques, one of those tenants, wrote the following guest editorial for the Guardian.]
The San Francisco Design Center has been a doing business at 2 Henry Adams street for the last 40 years. During that time it has created thousands of good paying jobs in the city. We are currently at risk of losing the majority of the building to tech office space. The building is zoned for PDR-Design but a loophole in the law is being exploited by the new owners, a Chicago based investment firm. This would lead to the loss of SF based small businesses and the jobs that they create. Read more »
