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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:13:24 JST Adrianna Tan

   I keep saying that SF's permitting issues and shifting demographics means it's going to lose out to other nearby cities for the fun Asian stuff that draws in crowds and retail and food spending.

   Stonestown is thriving, it has a large no of Asian restaurants and shops focusing on the community near SFSU and Sunset. That's probably the most successful 'mall' in the city right now. All the others are dead.

   Daly City has this thing that's coming up and Emeryville is going to have a giant Korean one as well soon.

   I'd rather go to Millbrae and Daly City and Oakland for something like say, boba, than anywhere in SF. I truly think that SF is going to lose the wave of 'trendy' Asian growth

   https://archive.ph/trWKa

   #SanFrancisco #BayArea #Food

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:16:01 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Jollibee tried to open.. and could not. It's dire. If Jollibee can't open, it's exceptionally difficult for small BIPOC business to do anything in SF proper, with way fewer resources.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:17:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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     SF's city permitting is SO BAD that it gives people breakdowns

     https://missionlocal.org/2021/02/san-francisco-dbi-paper-accela/

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:23:52 JST JackieM

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     @skinnylatte the only other mall that’s at all fun is…Japan town 🤔

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:24:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • JackieM

     @Jackiemauro also very meh food so I don’t love it as much

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     Chris Petrilli (petrillic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:25:22 JST Chris Petrilli

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     @skinnylatte no Jollibee, no joy.

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:26:00 JST JackieM

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     @skinnylatte I do love the matcha ice cream. And also the weird arcade of grabber things haha. But I mostly go for the vibes.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:26:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • JackieM

     @Jackiemauro yeah I always go ‘where we going? Japan town again?’

     It’s the only slightly fun thing near us

     But it’s not terribly fun, just better than the less fun options around haha

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:30:32 JST JackieM

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     @skinnylatte haha fair. It’s far from us so kind of a treat. The kids really like the bridge.

     Man I hope Lurie can make good on his promises to fix the permit nonsense.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:30:32 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @Jackiemauro haha every mayor who has tried has been smacked by DBI so I am uncertain that he will get to do much. He needs to fire everyone at DBI

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     Das (srdas@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:32:28 JST Das

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     @skinnylatte wait wha!!! Jollibee couldn't open?! That's just silly (of SF) (or corrupt as you said). Either way loss for SF

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:32:28 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Das

     @SRDas yep

     https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/114066414105267935

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:36:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @Jackiemauro when they get a bit older, consider annual camp Mather get away

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:36:21 JST JackieM

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     @skinnylatte a bit horrifying to realize how much of what I now consider “fun” is just whatever I can do that allows me not to be my kids main source of entertainment for 10 minutes.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 05:38:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     In case you don’t get how bad it is:

     “SF’s permitting process for any business is, you need to rent and pay full rent on a commercial space, and then keep paying it for the 1-3 years or undetermined amount of time you need to apply for the 1000 permits you need, no one knows which ones exactly but they’ll tell you when you’ve done 999 you need 1 more they made up and you need to again keep paying full commercial rent for the next month or year or two”

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     Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 09:26:34 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

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     @skinnylatte A local restaurant chain in Cambridge, MA made a whole large mural of their 2.5 year journey to install a custom-made oven: https://fishmcgill.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cloverCentral_day-scaled.jpeg