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Mayor Lurie launches initiative to speed up S.F.’s slow permitting process (SF Chronicle): The Mayor announced a new effort to...more
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San Francisco Why Mission Bay is recovering faster than anywhere else in San Francisco (SF Standard):
The redeveloped neighborhood is booming ahead...more
2/10/2025
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Small and Mighty: How small businesses can reinvent downtown San Francisco (SPUR Policy Brief): SPUR’s research, drawn from a...more
5/7/2024
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San Francisco Office Market Shows Signs of Life (Wall Street Journal): Sales slowly materialize as some sellers accept lower prices,...more
11/8/2023
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A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team:
San Francisco San Francisco isn’t doomed. These 6 places show why (S.F. Chronicle):
The City is not without its current challenges but, for most of...more
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National Insight on Downtown San Francisco Recovery (Urban Land Institute): San Francisco can create a more commercially vibrant and...more
The land use entitlement process in California is notoriously complicated, lengthy, and fraught with uncertainty. Less attention is paid to the process of receiving building permits, post-entitlement. Generally, this process...more
5/17/2023
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A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team...more
3/7/2023
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While the 2020-2021 California Legislative Session was dominated by the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis and the ultimately unsuccessful Gubernatorial recall election, there were significant efforts made to change statewide...more
9/24/2021
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