I encourage everyone to watch the (entire) Council Meeting. It gets really interesting when councilor Jamison suggests we should study the downtown location. Entennmen and Litz go on a tirade about how DT will not work and the money isn’t there to study that location and suggests other’s pony up. Well guess what Jim, there is a rumor that that just might be the case. Local businessmen are pledging large amounts of money towards the DT effort.
A vast majority of people who want the dt location. ate dt property owners. That includes Steve h.
The people who want the DT location come from all parts of the city – and outside the city. I doubt that as many as 15% of the 1400 members of the Build It DT group are DT property owners. What all the people mthat support a DT location DO have in common is an understanding that it’s the ECONOMICS of DT that make it a better location. Essentially – it will be less a financial burden on the citizens of the city if it’s DT.
I will admit that a part of me was against a DT location until I attended a ‘Police’ concert a few years back in Omaha at the Qwest center. And I walked out of the place after the concert and barhopped my whole way back to my hotel room DT. What an experience. We can have that in SF.