Jake Levinson
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🌁📦🚛 AMAZON VS SF:
In 2021, Amazon was planning on a 650,000 SF distribution facility at 900 7th St. in SOMA. This property’s zoning specifically allows distribution.
The property is currently a vacant, dilapidated Recology truck yard. Ripe for enhancement and development in
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🌁🗽Average building permit timeline:
New York City: 180 days
Miami: 14 days
San Francisco: 612 days
Bureaucracy doesn't kill development, undisciplined bureaucracy does…
#SanFrancisco
#NewYork
#Miami
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Why San Francisco doesn't work
We have a major overstaffing problem at the city. Why do we have 35,000 city workers for 750,000 ppl?
This job makes no sense. We need a city government that holds employees accountable & insures tax dollars aren’t being wasted on unproductivity
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🌁⛴🏗 Alameda Island:
Alameda has 18 Acres of retired airstrips, and about 1,000,000 ft.² of vacant industrial property.
There is no reason that the west side of Alameda couldn't be Brooklyn🗽🐀
The city of Alameda needs to adopt a new up-zoning and master plan for the
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🌁💸 VC Investment Update:
The San Francisco Bay Area had more VC investment in Q1 than New York, Boston, LA, and San Diego COMBINED.
Think the Bay Area is dying?
Its growing.
Ripe for new investment and more commercial infrastructure.
#SanFrancisco
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🌁 🦽SF’s ADA Problem:
The city of San Francisco is perpetually in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for clear sidewalks.
I took this photo yesterday…📷
Our citizens in wheelchairs are unable to maneuver around the city with constant
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🌁🍎🏃♂️ Healthy SF:
In a study published by WalletHub, which evaluated more than 180 major U.S. cities using 41 key indicators, San Francisco was crowned as America’s healthiest city.
SF has the lowest obesity rate in the nation at 19%.
We spend the most on outdoor spaces and
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🌁 💒 We have 30,500 nonprofits in San Francisco.
Why is San Francisco so philanthropic?
There is no other one city populous in the world that cares about the marginalized more than the people of San Francisco. We have abundant “nonprofitreneurship.”
All of this nonprofit
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🌁🛩️💰SF’s Billionaire Reality:
San Francisco is home to the most billionaires per capita of any city on Earth, and it’s not close.
🌁 SF is home to 56 Billionaires…
🇫🇷 Paris has 44…
🎥 LA has 28…
🐀 NY has 112…
800k people live in San Francisco. 4mm in LA, 2.1mm live in
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@Jaxland58
As a Giants fan I couldn’t be more appalled by this.I am so sorry from the bottom of my heart.Our whole organization so happy that you are here and you’ve been fantastic. Thank you for being a great athlete, teammate and role model for our youth. This is not who we are as a city.
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🌁 🎟️ 🚙 If San Francisco enforced any behavioral laws in this city like we do parking infractions…it’d be Singapore.
We can enforce street cleanliness and reducing vagrant behavior. We just need the same devotion and organizational structure that our meter maid’s department
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Why SF doesn’t work:
Our city remains one of the most expensive places to live on earth while our streets are dirty, crazed addicts run free, and our city amenities lack any excitement…
We need housing, roof top bars/restaurants, enhanced parks/squares, and enforce a healthy
Monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in city center.
🇺🇸 New York: $4,074
🇺🇸 San Francisco: $3,344
🇺🇸 Boston: $3,101
🇸🇬 Singapore: $3,002
🇨🇭 Zurich: $2,869
🇬🇧 London: $2,854
🇺🇸 Miami: $2,811
🇺🇸 Los Angeles: $2,662
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $2,252
🇦🇺 Sydney: $2,181
🇮🇪 Dublin: $2,180
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🌁🧮 SF By The Numbers:
1) 🏗️GDP: San Francisco holds the highest GDP per capita of any major city on earth
2) 💵Corporate Powerhouse: Among the 50 most valuable companies in the world, 15 are headquartered in the Bay Area. These companies include Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Meta,
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🌁🛍️ FORMULA RETAIL:
Here in SF, we have formal retail restrictions.
If a retail brand wants to lease space in most neighborhoods, and they have over 11 stores nationally, they need a conditional use permit (CUP). It can take 6-12 months just for that one detail.
We need to
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While
@LondonBreed
gaslights San Francisco citizens about why downtown retail is dead because of the “changing landscape of the retail industry,” Manhattan retail is thriving. NYC retail commands $300 PSF+ rents…you couldn’t give away Union Square San Fran retail spaces for free
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🌁🍝⭐️⭐️⭐️ Michelin Mecca:
San Francisco has the most Michelin stars per capita of any city in the US.
Our competitor out east 🐀🗽only has 71 Michelin restaurants for 8mm people.
San Francisco has 28 Michelin restaurants for a 10th of the population.
Culinary excellence and
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🌁🏗️ Why vote
@MarkFarrellSF
:
I just got off a call with one of the premiere office developers in San Francisco.
They anecdotally told me that Mark personally helped shepherd their office/R&D project to approval while he was mayor for 6 months.
This action secured the
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🌁🏫🍎 SFUSD Properties:
SF Unified School District owns 19mm sqft of commercial property in San Francisco. Not just schools - assets include land, warehouses, abandoned school sites, & notably the dirt under the Westfield Mall!
Just on a $500 price per square foot, that's $4b
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🌁🏡🥵SF’s Hot Housing Market:
This 1 bed/1.5 bath on 15th & Mission is listed for $3,400/mo. No parking included, 10 y/o building.
It was put on Zillow last month.
The day I took this screenshot, the property manager had already been contacted 3,365 times…
These are West
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🌁🏗️Construction Costs:
If you look deeper into why San Francisco is such a hard place to build, there is way more than just bureaucracy.
San Francisco has the highest materials cost of any city in the US, and second highest construction labor cost.
Why are the material costs
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🌁🏙️ SF Office Vacancy Cliff:
Important data from my friends at Avison Young San Francisco's office shows a lease expiration cliff in 2030. Whoever is elected mayor in November needs to prepare.
Tech companies account for 44.8% of upcoming lease expirations.
The next mayor
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🌁🎢🎡 Playland 2025:
Ocean Beach used to be home to Playland.
Opened in 1913, Playland was a 10-Acre amusement park that spanned from the Windmills to the Cliff House along the waterfront of Ocean Beach.
We used to do retail master planning properly.
Now, there are no
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🌁📮
@LondonBreed
’s LUCK:
London is riding the coattails of the San Francisco private sector’s economic fortitude.
None of the city’s recent progress has anything to do with her achievements. The Primary results aren't London’s accomplishment, they're a result of exhausted
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🌁🤡 London’s Lack of Control:
This city manager from 2019-2024 stole $620k from tax payer fund, this happens when your leader doesn’t have a pulse on the veins of their administration. No oversight. No accountability.
One of many examples of her administration’s inability to
A San Francisco city manager was charged for stealing over $600K from his own department:
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I’ve been on nonprofit boards in SF since I was 22…I’ve seen the well oiled machines that create equity in our communities, and I’ve seen frivolous spending.
We can improve our city funds disbursement practices.
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🌁☠️ Shutting down Market Street with no deliverable plan killed San Francisco.
🫀 Market Street is the central artery of this great city, and our leaders severed it.
Since then: open air drug markets in UN + Hallidie Plazas, decimated retail from Steuart Street to 11th, dead
This is what great American cities looked like a century ago, in video (thread):
1. San Francisco, 1906
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Thank you
@BrookeJenkinsSF
Keep setting the tone.
Great work by
@SFDAOffice
as we continue to tackle organized retail theft in partnership w/
@SFPD
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🌁🗞️🤢 Bay Area Headlines:
This was my chronicle email headline yesterday.
Such a national embarrassment.
@LondonBreed
wasting her time on a fruitless pursuit with taxpayer funds.
@MayorShengThao
is quite possibly the weakest leader and Mayor a US city has had in history. You
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🌁🏢✍️ SF OFFICE Leased:
We’ve fully leased another office building in San Francisco.
My team and I secured a new office tenant and activated retail space at 300 4th Street in San Francisco. This office building is in the heart of the Yerba Buena neighborhood.
300 4th St. sat
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🌁☀️Office of Roof-decks:
How beautiful was yesterday in San Francisco?
SF has the greatest skyline of any city in the world. Undulated hills offer perfect vantage points to our magnificent surroundings.
We need an easier process to build roof-decks.
You've seen many
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😴🌳🌁
@MayorShengThao
:
This is how
@MayorShengThao
protects her city.
Recall
@MayorShengThao
immediately.
She should be ashamed of herself as the worst mayor in US history.
#Sanfrancisco
#Oakland
80-to-100 people allegedly ransacked and vandalized this gas station mart on Hegenberger in Oakland this morning.
The owner says the group broke fridges, took the ATM apart and caused around $100,000 in damage/loss.
This area is close to the In-N-Out that closed this year due
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🌁🪼 Rippling through Vacancy:
Locally started and growing Tech firm Rippling has signed a new 123,000-square-foot lease for an expanded San Francisco headquarters, quadrupling its office space as it plans to hire hundreds of new local workers.
The new lease is the city’s
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🌁👖SF Fact:
The birth of the blue jean was in San Francisco.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis invented denim jeans during the time of the Gold Rush, when they realized there was a need for durable yet comfortable clothes for miners.
Their factory was in Jackson Square.
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@Tenderloin94109
You really think that will make a difference? This administration can't handle nominal tasks let alone comply with ADA Law…
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🌁🎰 Macy’s Union Square:
The City and County of San Francisco BOS needs to write legislation to turn the Union Square Macy’s into the area’s biggest casino.
The property is on Ohlone Land
Would benefit surrounding:
✅ Nightlife
✅ Restaurants
✅ Luxury retail
✅ Increase
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@realEstateTrent
It’s really just the Bay Area. We doubled New York’s VC investment last year and have 15 of the top 50 most valuable companies on earth HQ’d in SF/Bay Area…
New York has 3…
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🌁🚋SF Fact:
San Francisco’s cable cars are the only National Historical Monument that can move.
#SanFrancisco
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@SinaiLawFirm
No accountability. Robert Moses said it best, “When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”
We overpay our city workers and don’t follow our money with results driven expectations…
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🌁🙁🩼 London’s Lack of Protection:
How can either side of the aisle be okay with the street conditions in San Francisco?
Republican, Democrat, progressive, pro housing, etc. — it doesn’t matter.
Obviously, what’s been happening isn’t working under the current administration‼️
If you have been following me, I have done multiple videos of this man here this is Ian from Reno. This is what he goes through when he’s coming down off of his meth high. I know some people might say why I didn’t just call the ambulance anyway well, I had to respect that he
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🌁🚃 Powell/Mason Turnaround:
How do you know San Francisco is back?
When the Powell/Mason cable car turnaround is packed on a Tuesday at 6 PM. This photo is from 8 minutes ago on my drive home. The line went to Francisco St.
In 2023, we had the most tourist visitors in San
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🌁🚗🙅 Zoning Tax Loss:
I've been working on a deal to bring a public parking operator to a 2.5-acre paved lot in San Francisco. Great income for the owner, & effects a 20% gross parking tax for the city.
The paved lot is a shelved office development site. 🏢
The owner is
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@sbuss
@DeanPreston
Shouldnt every week in Dean’s life be “I love tenderloin week?” That’s his job as supervisor for his district
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🌁🗑️🌊 London’s Waste:
More evidence that London is asleep at the wheel.
As a Democratic city, our environmental impact should be a focal point for our leadership.
Our city government is so obsessed with protecting and perpetuating “homelessness” aka the revolving door of San
San Francisco is accused of discharging over 1.8 billion pounds of sewage into the Bay; the EPA alleges:
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I’m a big
@honeymahogany
fan as a person. Honey is a great leader and speaker and I wish everyone would be as gracious as Honey is.
Honey Mahogany is addressing the crowd as Matt Dorsey holds a considerable lead in the District 6 race.
“There’s still a chance that we can pull ahead, a small chance.” Mahogany said. “We’re going to hold those candles of hope right in our hearts.”
@sfstandard
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🌁🥠 SF FACT:
Chinese fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco by a Japanese resident named Makoto Hagiwara.
As the story goes, he was the landscape designer for Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden and served the treats in the tea garden, popularizing the fortune
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@PavlovicNBCS
Mistake with Tomlinson, ultimate utility defender-OF,S,2B,3B Give him 150 ABs he will hit .300, underutilized and under appreciated
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🌁🤬 Market Street:
Look at the difference in the video I just took and this one from 1934…
This is how London Breed’s administration left Market Street…
We will not survive four more years of this.
Market Street needs to be open immediately. Easiest first step for the
@historyinmemes
It was 1934 and this is Market Street in San Francisco. You are there in surreal realism.
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🌁🚗🚗 Parking is Back:
Let’s talk 900 Sansome Garage.
This garage sat vacant since 2020 while the owner planned to redevelop for a ground-up office building, which didn’t happen for obvious reasons.
In December 2023, we leased this 30,000 square-foot garage to a public
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🌁🔥🥩My building in SF just received a violation for having a propane barbecue on a permitted roof deck.
Today, I drove by an individual lighting a stack of wood and bicycles on fire on 13th Street under the freeway.
Why are normal working-class citizens being held to this
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✡️🇺🇸: I am a proud Jewish American.
My family’s foundation is both in Israel and the US.
My grandfather, the grandson of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant escaping persecution graduated from Columbia University.
I'm witnessing a misguided culture of college protestors trying to
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@LondonBreed
Look at the high crime rates during your administration. Too little too late. We needed safety and leadership during COVID.
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@StephenMPinto
The board voted to approve the moratorium. Reasoning was pollution, traffic and union issues.
First two reasons are hypocritical bc the site has been used for a trucking/waste treatment plant the last 40 years…
Union concerns are valid but those can be negotiated with Amazon.
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Walked by this notice in Jackson Square
City fining private property owners for Graffiti vandalism…
Not only do you need to pay the city $500, but they request $1,000 per day plus administrative fees.
The current SFPD’s graffiti task force consists of one person…
Instead
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@realEstateTrent
If New York had the same GDP per capita (w NY population) as San Francisco it would have the same GDP output as the US economy.
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🌁📊 San Francisco lost a daily average of 210,000 people during a typical workday in 2021 compared to 2019. 26% of the gross population…
That in conjunction of the closure of Market Street killed downtown.
How are retail businesses supposed to survive along the Market Street
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Imagine if
@RealSkipBayless
was your father giving you advice on how to deal with depression...imagine if your his teenage kid and playing football dealing with that...
We all support
@dak
and his leadership capabilities. He’s going to have a great year!
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@HillaryRonen
I'm the first person on board for reparations. I think our society needs to implement reparations. But if reparations are not about the money, then let's do other things outside of writing a blank check with no direction.
Let the city provide full ride scholarships to college for
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@SupStefani
I live in your district and wouldn’t feel safe being a parent with my child at any SF park after this incident.
I see heavy drug users around SF parks and schools in every district. Where is the accountability?!
BAN ENCAMPMENTS AND RESTRAIN TRANSIENTS FROM THESE AREAS!
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I have had these
@beatsbydre
since 2012. Today they died. Could not be happier with the quality and durability of their product. Huge thank you to
@beatsbydre
@drdre
for creating a set of 🎧 I can always rely on.
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The S.F. Bay Area is a Venture Capital nucleus
In 2023, San Francisco led with $31 billion in VC investment, beating New York and Boston COMBINED.
The Bay Area produced more startups than any country on earth last year
We have all the tools to be the city in the world again.
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Why are we paying for a “30 person delegation?”
How much is this costing tax payers?
London needs to go.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is heading to China on Saturday with a 30-person delegation. Her goal? To boost Chinese tourism—and perhaps secure a panda for the San Francisco Zoo. It may improve her standing with Asian American voters, too.
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@PJBworldview
I appreciate the post,
@PJBworldview
.
Market Street has lost 90% of their Marquees over the last 50 years.
We need to activate the main artery of San Francisco immediately.
Open season for new businesses and development along the corridor.
#SanFrancisco
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🌁🗽🏢 This is 345 4th Street in San Francisco.
This office building sold last year for $52,800,000 ($890/PSF) and is in the heart of SOMA.
The buyer was the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center. They intend to occupy 100% of the property.
This is one block from Moscone Center,
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@sweatystartup
Zac lost people millions of their personal funds. I know people who lost everything with the downfall of Blockfi.
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@credealjunkie
@LondonBreed
FDR had adversity, Lincoln had adversity. Harvey Milk had adversity. No leader walks into a perfect situation. Your ability is based on outcomes.
Doesn't matter if it's SF during 2020 or the US in 1942.
Results.
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@KyrstensCloset
correct, would be happy to help the USD for free optimize their commercial real estate portfolio 👍
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🌁♥️♠️ 🎰 Wynn San Francisco:
SF needs a central casino.
Bart ridership would increase🚆
Surrounding Retail would benefit🛍️
Tax revenue💰
Job creation👨💼👷♂️
Occupy a core property vacancy📈
Swell the nighttime population (been a significant problem since the pandemic)
Here
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Humanity needs leaders who influence young people to follow a positive path. Kobe showed a generation of young leaders that hard work and focus is followed by success.
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@DragonMastr69
@FlyHigh407
@fraudvoyager
@ForbesCrypto
@investvoyager
@Steven_Ehrlich
@Ehrls15
@USTreasury
Happy to give the world my ticket number...no one asked!
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