South of Market

and I would, I would know the pride parade, except I had an event that day and that's all I was focused on.

So one of those, Oh my God, I'm stuck South of market and I'm never getting out of here.

What have I

done? Oh, Maybe I'll park at the White House tomorrow around the corner.

You know, Mission Bay, which 10 years ago, you couldn't really pay anybody to go to Mission Bay.

It was kind of the hinterlands of South of Market.

And, you know, we've seen...

the big frontier companies take a lot of space over a million square feet in a, you know, a market that only has 5 million square feet or something like that.

Okay.

I live in the South of Market neighborhood, which is a community of engineered inequality.

And why do communities like Compton exist when Beverly Hills and the excess exist? We can't have Compton without having Beverly Hills.

When you were speaking about that community in Orlando, but the same thing happened in Flint, Michigan, Detroit, when when the car industry left.

I have one, my client who, but they have a lot of money.

His daughter just rented a place, a one bedroom in Soma, south of market, 5,500 a month.

What? 5,500 a month.

That used to be the hood.

Well, I didn't live there.

I worked there.

But yeah, South of Market was like...

But since the 90s, it's changed.

Creating more walkable and bikeable spaces is good for everyone, especially the most vulnerable road users.

Vega Mayor led several dozen bikers through South of Market's official Filipino Cultural Heritage District, stopping at historical sites, education and harm reduction orgs, and the Lapu-Lapu mural off of Folsom Street.

It's a mural that depicts victories of Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, and it was created by Filipino-Americans, and it's really beautiful.

Learning the culture and history and just being in community.

But Daniel Lurie has done an incredible job with most of the city of San Francisco, and most of the city of San Francisco is dramatically cleaner, feels safer, and is a lot more exciting than it was just when I was there a couple of years ago.

But most of the city is the most important part there because if you talk to residents of the Tenderloin, SoMa, or the Mission, not e-- or not only are things not better, in some circumstances, they're worse.

I know which neighborhoods to avoid when I go to San Francisco.

The first time I went there with my wife a couple of years ago, I did not know that, and we were trying to find a place that had gluten-free clam chowder and gluten-free lobster bisque because, of course, you're in San Francisco.

I can distinctly remember the first time that I read The Inner Game of Tennis.

I was in a coffee shop on Bryant Street in the South of Market area of San Francisco, right at the time.

And, um, the book was given to me from a triathlon coach, and I was fresh out of graduate school, so I would've been, what, 26 maybe? 25 or 26.

And was training pretty seriously for long course triathlon, and I had become completely engrossed in all the numbers.