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From SFGate
With mid-Market rebirth cruising, Muni looks to add express bus
By: Will Reisman |05/13/12
12:52 PM
SF Examiner Staff Writer
Muni has proposed adding an express route that would run between Civic Center and the Caltrain station at Fourth and Townsend streets. The resurgence of the mid-Market Street neighborhood could be boosted by another bus line serving the area. Muni has proposed adding an express route that would operate during peak weekday travel times. The 83X Mid-Market Express would travel an L-shaped path from the Caltrain station at Fourth and Townsend streets to the Civic Center at Ninth and Market streets, running from 7 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.
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San Francisco Business Times
AvalonBay plans Mid-Market rentals for Gen Y tenants
by J.K. Dineen, Reporter
Date: Friday, June 8, 2012, 3:00am PDT
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Apartment 2.0 is coming to Mid-Market in San Francisco.
AvalonBay has completed its acquisition of 55 Ninth St., and will start construction in July on a $125 million development that will add 273 apartments to the rapidly growing neighborhood.
The project, right across the street from the new Twitter headquarters at 1355 Market St., will be different than AvalonBay’s Mission Bay projects in that it will be an AVA community, a new brand the company started to appeal to the sort of Gen Y renters who populate the offices of Twitter and other growing San Francisco tech companies....
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Huffington Post
Summer Of Art: San Francisco Central Market Neighborhood To Host Weekly Lunchtime Performances
No one said the mayor's job was easy. And working through the hurdles of his extensive Central Market Economic Strategy, a tireless effort to revitalize San Francisco's long-struggling Mid-Market neighborhood, has been no exception for Ed Lee.
But despite the disappointing cuts in funding, stalled development andopposition to controversial incentive tax breaks, Lee hasn't given up on his adopted project. And this week, he announced an exciting new detail: the Summer Arts Series at UN Plaza.
Full article here
From the Economic Times
Technology entrepreneurs prefer San Francisco over Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO: The YouTube video, featuring a young blonde sitting in a strikingly modern San Francisco home, offers a telling insight into the attitudes that are shifting the geography of the Bay Area technology scene.
"Who has a party in Palo Alto?" she asks the camera, in a dig at the suburban capital of Silicon Valley that helped make the two-minute comedy, "Shit Silicon Valley Says," a Web hit. For many of the twentysomething engineers and other professionals who play a central role in the latest Internet boom, the question is purely rhetorical. Full article
...and last but not least
From SFGate
CityPlace, stalled retail project, back on track
San Francisco's CityPlace, a stalled retail development on a seedy section of Market Street between Fifth and Sixth, is being purchased by investors who plan to build a sleek, glass-fronted, five-story mall.
The CityPlace deal, coming as Twitter finishes moving into its new headquarters on Market between Ninth and 10th streets, adds a key piece to the long-promised revitalization of the blighted Mid-Market area, San Francisco's main thoroughfare from Powell Street to Civic Center.
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