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@dlondonwortel @MonardaB UES?

@MonardaB Tell me another part of Manhattan of equal size that is more boring.

18th street to 33rd street = the most boring stretch of Manhattan

@KenjiCapital 1. BART/City should release a RFP for the 8-acre mostly empty #ColiseumBART parking lot 2. Opportunity for City/Port/AASEG to invest in HegenbergerRd/Airport business park 3. Finally, shared bike/ped path from 66th Ave to MLK shoreline - great, but often overlooked park space.

Big move for Oakland’s future: The Oakland Arena reportedly could be sold for $100M as part of the larger Coliseum redevelopment deal. The arena apparently became more valuable after the Warriors left because it evolved into a strong concert/live events venue...specifically with a lot of K Pop acts coming in. But this isn’t just about the arena, it’s about controlling one of the largest urban infill redevelopment sites in the Bay Area. • 155 acres • Transit-connected • Existing infrastructure • Huge cultural history And now potentially shifting from public sports asset to a privately driven entertainment + mixed-use district. A few other things that stand out: • The arena sale proceeds may be used by AASEG to finance the broader Coliseum acquisition. • The long-term vision includes housing, hotels, entertainment, retail, and large-scale redevelopment in East Oakland. This could end up being one of the most important redevelopment projects in the Bay Area over the next decade.

@VladSF It's really hard to make ground-floor commercial work in 100% affordable. There's not rly a financing source to fund the TI buildout needed to make the space desirable except for New Markets Tax Credits. And banks almost always underwrite to no income for any commercial space.

No retail on the ground level feels like a mistake. I understand filling commercial spaces may be hard along some corridors but this is a prominent strip on Divisadero with heavy foot traffic. sfyimby.com/2026/05/new-re…

@SamRo wait where have you found a good burrito here?!?

I love Boston. Such a great size and layout. Clean. Really good Thai food and burritos. Best sports bars. Literally everyone follows baseball

@Glutelord Not sure there is tbh

what is a polite way to encourage somebody to hop on finasteride before it’s too late?

@upzonenj I thought a reporter clarified in the press conference that prevailing wage was not required but also unclear

Mamdani announced a pretty big rezoning in NYC called Block by Block, but it comes with prevailing wage requirements. That's akin to the everything bagel approach that hasn't worked in CA. Either it won't work, or it'll produce a few very limited high end megaprojects.

@rohindhar and market rate new construction still doesn't pencil?!?

Median rent for a one bedroom in San Francisco hits $4000 a month, per Zumper An increase of 3.9% over the prior month (not a year ago, a month ago!)

Metlife in the 1940s: "We've got all this cash and need to put it somewhere with steady, low returns, what should we do? Say, why not build new neighborhoods for tens of thousands of middle class families in America's cities?"

@InspectrGagIt wait both look amazing...which is more recent?

Two months apart 🥹🥹🥹 I’m so proud

now is the time for an Upper Manhattan expansion

@barakgila I mean I think it’s more nuanced than that… Especially with what meta is doing rn but that’s my opinion

@5Divide he was completely right, too

taking requests for what else we should be for and against

@barakgila Don’t know enough about the tax but Maybe like corporations employ people..or we need more jobs or something lol. Otherwise it sounds too much like icky Supreme Court citizens united language

@5Divide I mean, yes, but it's also earnest -- I do support our beloved national corporations and the fact we need to regulate some oligopolistic industries better doesn't mean we should also hate on eg Palantir

@arpitrage Could a modern day Mitchell-lama help?

Worth emphasizing that a lot of the housing issues which pull people out of NYC are preferences to *own*, for housing quality, and for space; not just the pure rent/housing cost itself.

@rightofwhey Your chest is massive!

Believe it or not I’m already 20 in the right pic 😭

Dear Boston, When you bump into someone, good manners call for a simple “sorry excuse me” -Someone from California

@barakgila 🤣

this is actually great because the investments compound as you figure out your dating/social life/what have you

I mean NorCal is probably 2x-3x underpopulated given that it has like literally the 100/100 SimCity map.

@kimmaicutler @mattyglesias Tech is scared of Oakland

Tech elite are not really invested in Oakland. They're all in SF and on the peninsula. Joe Lacob is that guy for the Warriors (and now Valkyries). Oakland has white collar workers for tech companies and a few CEOs but it's just not like that. It's amusing that the GenZ frontier lab/startup talent are complaining about housing but the most important thing that could happen for immediately relieving housing pressure in SF is getting signatures for the November ballot initiative to not let BART fail.

This is of course light years away from highly cost effective charity, but I think it says something not great about the tech elite’s conception of their civic role that the Oakland As and Raiders were not retained in the Bay Area.

@BenWessel @CSElmendorf @TomSteyer low-key wish @TomSteyer would commit the $ he raised for the gov race to repealing #prop13...

@CSElmendorf honest question: If we pass split-roll (say, if @TomSteyer wins and there's a statewide measure that passes), does hitch 1 kinda go away? or since itd be just prop 13 reform on commercial properties it wouldnt matter...

A great deal in principle ⤵️. Upzoning + IZ cuts -> higher land values -> more tax revenue. The deal would dedicate a portion of the tax increment to BMR housing developers, in exchange for their dropping their opposition to lower IZ. The hitch is in the next tweets. 1/3