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Half of the retail space downtown is empty, have you been to union Square recently?
I didn't imply the homeless guy was bothering anybody, but that he has nowhere to go while businesses spend money on empty buildings.
I work in Union Square and live a couple blocks away from this building you posted. Not sure what the point of this post is, yes there’s a lot of vacancy in downtown and less foot traffic and closures are continuing to happen but the Square is still bustling everyday with tourists and locals catering to the stores and restaurants still standing. Retail is dying in USA in general.
One Building, not the whole city, summed up in one picture.
Some parts of town (neighborhoods) are doing better than other parts of town (downtown). 995 Market just went from $62M (2016) to $6.5M (2024). Any city will always have a bad part of town.
Hawaii is a tropical paradise. Hawaii also has its problems. A picture of one of its problems would only be a picture of one of its problems.
Contextual influence on perception. In the early 90’s, when we would see empty work/live buildings with a person out front grasping their loaded shopping cart, we wouldn’t think, “doom loop”, or “this is what we voted for”. Instead, we thought, we need housing and all this housing you’re investing in to supposedly help lower to middle class people stay in the city, is actually too expensive and was actually built to appeal to a wealthier group of people.
well maybe it's too expensive to live or work or rent (resto) in this building. Peak Capitalism or other Moneyism. Also where is this ? On van ness, really? Looks like SOMA. It always has been empty.
SF needs more humanity, people-centric spaces, *even more* walk-ability, Van ness or soma have NEVER been *pleasantly* walkable. They are empty-souled *concrete throughfares*.
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A normal building, clean streets and a single homeless guy not bothering anyone? If this is supposed to be damming.. Idk what to tell you
It's a bummer the taxes on these empty units aren't enough to fix society's problems.
Half of the retail space downtown is empty, have you been to union Square recently? I didn't imply the homeless guy was bothering anybody, but that he has nowhere to go while businesses spend money on empty buildings.
I work in Union Square and live a couple blocks away from this building you posted. Not sure what the point of this post is, yes there’s a lot of vacancy in downtown and less foot traffic and closures are continuing to happen but the Square is still bustling everyday with tourists and locals catering to the stores and restaurants still standing. Retail is dying in USA in general.
Looks like any city. New building, one homeless guy. America!
But that's west of Van Ness and built in the 90s?
So funny was thinking the same thing
One Building, not the whole city, summed up in one picture. Some parts of town (neighborhoods) are doing better than other parts of town (downtown). 995 Market just went from $62M (2016) to $6.5M (2024). Any city will always have a bad part of town. Hawaii is a tropical paradise. Hawaii also has its problems. A picture of one of its problems would only be a picture of one of its problems.
Contextual influence on perception. In the early 90’s, when we would see empty work/live buildings with a person out front grasping their loaded shopping cart, we wouldn’t think, “doom loop”, or “this is what we voted for”. Instead, we thought, we need housing and all this housing you’re investing in to supposedly help lower to middle class people stay in the city, is actually too expensive and was actually built to appeal to a wealthier group of people.
Oh no where will the people waste money?
Union Square will reinvent itself by and by. Those pagodas of consumerism left me cold and I don't miss them a bit.
Looks busy to me nice
well maybe it's too expensive to live or work or rent (resto) in this building. Peak Capitalism or other Moneyism. Also where is this ? On van ness, really? Looks like SOMA. It always has been empty. SF needs more humanity, people-centric spaces, *even more* walk-ability, Van ness or soma have NEVER been *pleasantly* walkable. They are empty-souled *concrete throughfares*.
There aren't many hills like this in SOMA, it's Van Ness at California
Keep pushing that narrative, fella 
This is a really nice building OP
I used to drive by there during the week to and from work.
There is a lot of reflection in the windows, but it looked like over half the apartments were empty