With retail stores closing down, property crime concerns, and complaints about open drug use, downtown San Francisco is having an image crisis. But the city has an idea to pull its downtown out of the doom loop and bring businesses back.
It's been about two months since Tristen Philippart de Foy opened his restaurant, Heartwood, in downtown San Francisco.
"We wanted to set our roots down in what we felt was a time when the Financial District needed people to do that, so when there was more of a boom time, we were already in place and not behind the curve, essentially," he said."I could see it getting a little bit worse before it gets better. But I do think that San Francisco is not a city that can be held down. I think it's one of the greatest cities in the world.
Bertrang says the first of three application periods recently closed. There are around 15 spots available in the first round of the program, and there were nearly 900 applicants for the spaces, which far exceeded Bertrang's expectations.
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