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Market Street facing East at dawn. Photo courtesy Archiculturefilm.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Marc Norton<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 4, 2011<\/p>\n

The corporate hucksters have really piled it on since I wrote my March 23 Fog City Journal<\/em> article<\/a> about the Great Twitter Tax Break.\u00a0 Predictably, once it became clear that our current City Fathers will kowtow to Twitter and give them a multi-million dollar dollop of corporate welfare, every Big Business crony and wanna-be in town has rushed to Silly Hall with their hands out.\u00a0 And, just as predictably, the majority of our Stupervisors have rushed to greet them, eager to win their favors.<\/p>\n

But before all that, just a few days ago, I wandered out of Buck Tavern, fortified by a pint of Guinness, map in hand of \u201cThe Central Market and Tenderloin Area Payroll Tax Exclusion Boundaries.\u201d<\/em> I headed east along Market to take stock of the recipients of the Board of Stupervisors\u2019 largesse and to check out the old neighborhood.<\/p>\n

My first encounter on Twitter Lane was with the white Bank of Amerika monolith at Market and 11th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This building has been a blight on the neighborhood for decades.\u00a0 Its blank walls loom over the street, appearing like the bastion of some other-worldly invasion force.\u00a0 This building is the kissing cousin of the big black BofA monolith in the heart of Wall Street-West on Montgomery and California, the one with the stone Banker\u2019s Heart in the plaza, where many a demonstration against corporate greed has taken place, including the one scheduled for Monday, April 4, by the San Francisco Labor Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Immediately upon encountering the BofA building on Market, the limitations of my \u201cPayroll Tax Exclusion Boundaries\u201d<\/em> map became apparent.\u00a0 Actually, I have two maps.\u00a0 The first map, dated March 16, clearly shows the BofA building as part of the exclusion zone.\u00a0 This is a bit odd, as banks don\u2019t pay any business tax to San Francisco, since the politicians in Sacramento don\u2019t allow cities and counties to levy business taxes on banks.\u00a0 This fact is mentioned in the media from time to time, like it is some Big Revelation, and then routinely dropped like a hot potato.<\/p>\n

My second map is dated one day later, on March 17, part of an amended ordinance.\u00a0 This map shows the BofA building outside the exclusion zone, as if somebody thought better of giving a business tax break to a company that doesn\u2019t pay any business taxes in the first place.\u00a0 But the plot thickens.\u00a0 The amended ordinance wipes out the block and lot number where the BofA building sits, seemingly excluding it from further consideration for the tax break.\u00a0 On the other hand, a parcel in the same block (Block #3507, Lot 39) is still included.\u00a0 A look online at the Assessor\u2019s parcel<\/em> search application has no listing for such a lot.\u00a0 A look online at the Assessor\u2019s document<\/em> search application reveals that this lot does indeed exist, somewhere, and that it has a confusing history of ownership, including at some point the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n

March 16 version of the Central Market, Tenderloin tax exemption zone map, via Office of Economic and Workforce Development.<\/p><\/div>\n

Revised March 17 version of the Central Market, Tenderloin tax exemption zone map, via Office of the Controller.<\/p><\/div>\n

Further investigation reveals that, according to the Controller\u2019s Office, the BofA building on Market Street is being vacated by BofA, leaving something like a million square feet of office space empty.\u00a0 You better bet that any new occupants will be hitting up the city for a tax break.<\/p>\n

Moving up Market Street, one next encounters a big empty lot.\u00a0 It has been empty for sometime, as the Great Recession (the one that is supposedly all over) hasn\u2019t been kind to developers.\u00a0 According to my first map, this empty lot rated a tax break, which I guess would mean that if somebody could get something built there it would be business-tax-free for the next few years.\u00a0 But, on my second map, this lot has been removed from the exclusion zone.\u00a0 However, once again, the actual text of the amended ordinance is in conflict with the map, as it still includes this lot.\u00a0 I guess if anybody wants to build here, they will have to take their chances.<\/p>\n

Across 10th<\/sup> Street we find the old Furniture Mart, the very building that set this process in motion, the future home of Twitter and now the property of Doug Shorenstein.\u00a0 On my newer map, this property is marked with heavy black ink, like the heart of darkness that it has become.<\/p>\n

Across Market Street sits the Fox Plaza, a combination office\/apartment building that was stupidly built with its broad side to the prevailing wind.\u00a0 This creates the gut-wrenching kind of wind that they call Mariah.\u00a0 I hope those techie Twitterites across the street will be up to it.<\/p>\n

The Fox Plaza is yet another mystery.\u00a0 My first map shows it in the exclusion zone.\u00a0 The second map shows it outside the zone.\u00a0 The text of the ordinance still includes it.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should rename this whole deal the \u201cThe Central Market and Tenderloin Area Mystery Spot<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Marching up the street, we come to the big ugly office building at 1275 Market, sitting on what used to be the Whitcomb Hotel\u2019s parking lot.\u00a0 The Controller informs us that the building is being vacated by the State Compensation Insurance Fund.\u00a0 My first map has it in the tax exclusion zone; the second map shows it outside the zone.\u00a0 For once the amended ordinance is in agreement, and shows this building excluded from the zone.\u00a0 Just how long do you think that will last?<\/p>\n

Next we come to the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance, the Whitcomb Hotel, where my mother used to live, my brother and I used to play in the old pool room, and now the temporary home to assorted tourists.\u00a0 No mystery here about whether or not the Whitcomb is included in the tax exclusion zone. It was, and it is.\u00a0 But, why?<\/p>\n

Just exactly why does a hotel need a tax break on any new room cleaners or front desk clerks that they might hire?\u00a0 Is the Whitcomb going to leave town if they aren\u2019t part of this deal?\u00a0 Maybe they could move the hotel to Brisbane, where Twitter was going to go.<\/p>\n

Curiously, the Holiday Inn Civic Center, just around the corner from the Whitcomb was never included in the tax exclusion zone.\u00a0 I guess nobody is worried about them moving to Brisbane although, unlike the Whitcomb, it would fit right in there.<\/p>\n

On the corner of 8th<\/sup> and Market, next to the Whitcomb, is a branch of Chase Bank.\u00a0 Consulting my maps and the ordinance, it is clear that Chase, unlike BofA, rates clear inclusion in the tax exclusion zone.\u00a0 But, like the BofA, they don\u2019t pay business tax to the City anyway.\u00a0 My, my, what a tangled web we weave.<\/p>\n

Stumbling up the street, wishing for another Guiness, I see that Trinity Plaza is in the exclusion zone, according to my first map.\u00a0 What is going on here?\u00a0 Did someone think that Angelo Sangiacomo, the Don of Trinity Plaza, would change his mind about building all his big apartment buildings there if he didn\u2019t get a tax break?\u00a0 Fat chance.\u00a0 Well, we may find out, because my second map shows his development outside the tax exclusion zone.\u00a0 But, then again, the ordinance suggests that it was never in the exclusion zone, despite the first map.<\/p>\n

I hope someone besides me is keeping track of all this.\u00a0 This is beginning to look like a piece of legislation in search of litigation by once and future owners of all these parcels.<\/p>\n

About this point in my journey, my feet and my stamina began to wane. \u00a0Maybe it was the Guiness, or perhaps the lack thereof.\u00a0 Across Market Street I saw the Burger King near the library.\u00a0 Yeah, give them a tax break on hiring new burger-flippers, please.\u00a0 Then across 8th<\/sup> Street is the Orpheum Theatre, which also appears to be in the zone.\u00a0 And beyond that the home of the Public Utilities Commission, what used to be the Strand, and the empty Merrills\u2019s Drug Store, the Art Institute\u2026 In or out?\u00a0 The mind boggles.<\/p>\n

And somewhere down the street is the home of the soon-to-be CityPlace mall.\u00a0 The deal is done on that project, but hey, let\u2019s throw them a tax break just for good luck.<\/p>\n

And beyond, the tax exclusion zone stretches into the furthest reaches of the Tenderloin.\u00a0 The Warfield, Glide, Mitchell Brothers are all in.\u00a0 What a victory party this is going to be.<\/p>\n

If I understand this process correctly, we are just waiting now for the powers-that-be to negotiate a \u201cCommunity Benefits Package\u201d from Twitter.\u00a0 That\u2019s where we sweep up a few of the \u201ccorporate crumbs\u201d that fall off the table, as I heard Tiny from Poor Magazine<\/em> say the other day.\u00a0 Tiny was talking about Sutter Health\u2019s Cathedral Hill hospital project, not the Twitter tax break, but, hey, corporate crumbs are corporate crumbs.<\/p>\n

Now I need to get serious.<\/p>\n

I know there are all sorts of people out there, people who probably stopped reading this article a long time ago, who will jump up and down and say that San Francisco needs to be more \u201cbusiness friendly,\u201d otherwise every last business in town will pack up and leave.<\/p>\n

But what I think San Francisco is really losing are families, working people, Black folks in particular and poor folks in general \u2013 because it is just too damn expensive to live here \u2013 unless you work for Twitter or Zynga or are named Shorenstein.<\/p>\n

We need to stop ripping our City\u2019s social fabric to shreds with tax break after tax break for every corporate huckster with juice at Silly Hall.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had enough.\u00a0 How about you?\u00a0 Market Street \u2013 whose street?\u00a0 Our street!<\/p>\n

Marc Norton was a bellman for nearly twelve years at Hotel Frank in downtown San Francisco, until he was fired after Wells Fargo foreclosed on the property. For info on the fight at Hotel Frank, see www.HotelFrankSF.info.\u00a0 Contact Marc at nortonsf@ix.netcom.com<\/a>, or at www.MarcNorton.us<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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