mid market: Better Market Street Project: What San Francisco Has In Store For Us - 06/22/11 03:08 PM
Wiki HistoryJasper O'Farrell established Market Street as the widest street in town, he envisioned a grand boulevard, an arrow straight to the heart of Twin Peaks. The Better Market Steet Project is designed to recapture his vision all these years later.Market street has been a blight for a long long time. When the freeway came down it opened up the Emarcaderos for development. We have a new Farmers Market and Boulevard, Rincon Center and a host of restaurants and condo development. Twitter is moving to 1355 Market and that will no doubt help grow out mid Market. Upper Market is seeing new … (0 comments)

mid market: Are We Losing Twitter To Brisbane - 02/16/11 11:39 AM
Twitter, a San Francisco startup is looking to expand its workforce and save some money while doing it. San Francisco may lose Twitter to Brisbane. Twitter needs to grow its employee base and the payroll tax here in the city is 1.5%. Brisbane city has no tax and the internet company is thinking of a move.Pending LegislationLegislation is being put before the Board of Supervisors to suspend the payroll tax for six years. Any other company, moving to Mid-Market, that pays payroll taxes above $250,000, would also be eligible for the exemption. David Chui, Mayor Lee and Jayne Kim are all on … (2 comments)

mid market: The City Place Project Development Gets A New Vote On 09/14/10 - 09/09/10 01:37 PM
The City Place Project
Mid Market project serves city divesity The project envisions a five story building between 5th and 6th on market added 250,000 sqft of retail space. Stevenson street would also get an upgrade as the area would be designated for micro vendors. The entire project respects the neighborhood by offering retail space for value vendors and creating vendor space on Stevenson for a few startups to gain entry small storefront business's. The developers, Urban Realty, estimate the project would create up to 250 consruction jobs and 760 new retail positions. We are committed to utilizing the local workforce  … (0 comments)