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The solution to reviving the S.F. Centre has been sitting right under the city’s nose

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By Allison Arieff Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Last week, a deal to purchase the San Francisco Centre collapsed after the prospective buyers were reportedly unable to renegotiate an existing long-term lease held by the San Francisco Unified School District for a portion of the property. What happens next for the poster child of San Francisco’s doom-loop era is anyone’s guess. This is an intimidating site: 1.5 million square feet on more than 5 acres, with an emptiness that casts a pall on a neighborhood finally making strides toward recovery.
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This S.F. neighborhood actually demanded more housing. How did things turn out?

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By Allison Arieff Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
It has become one of the defining stories of San Francisco. A housing project is proposed, neighbors object, the number of units is reduced — including affordable units — more parking is added, years pass and costs pile up. Sometimes the project dies altogether. There’s rarely a good reason behind any of this. Objections are mostly motivated by superficial protestations that a building is out of context or character. Time and money are wasted. Housing across the city becomes more unaffordable.
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S.F.’s recovery is missing one of the hardest things to bring back

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By Allison Arieff Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
In 1989, I landed my first job post-college in San Francisco — as an administrative assistant (aka gallery girl) at the Capp Street Project art gallery located in a former auto body shop at 14th and Mission streets. My salary was $16,000. I lived in an expansive one-bedroom apartment in Oakland; the rent was $600, but because the building was called the Alison Apartments, the landlord cut it down to $550. My boyfriend was a painter with a day job as an art handler.
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