HOW LOW CAN BLUE CITIES SINK? [merged threads]

[Dashinka 24,488]

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Downtown San Francisco has been dealt another blow after an investor in one of its largest hotels said it would stop paying its loans.

Park Hotels and Resorts, the investment firm that owns Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels, said Monday that is has ceased payments on a $725 million loan as looks to reduce its presence in the city. The hotels have nearly 3,000 rooms, combined.

In a statement, the firm’s CEO, Thomas Baltimore, Jr., said that San Francisco’s “path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges” including office vacancies caused by companies letting employees work-from-home, a “weaker than expected citywide convention calendar” through 2027 and “concerns over street conditions.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/business/san-francisco-hotels-loan/index.html?iid=fw_con-hp-3

 

Can see a snowball effect

Why would any entity decide to hold a convention in San Francisco?

[Boiler 45,467]

1 minute ago, Dashinka said:

Why would any entity decide to hold a convention in San Francisco?

Actually I went to one a long time ago, now?

 

[Dashinka 24,488]

18 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Actually I went to one a long time ago, now?

 

Sure, it was a nice place years ago, and just maybe it will be a nice place in the future, but they need to do something about all that progress.

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City officials’ new drug-themed vending machine is a huge hit with local addicts — who wasted no time cleaning it out overnight as they stocked up on its free crack pipes, lip balm and Narcan.

“Yes, I love it,” drug user Evelyn Williams told The Post while standing at the “public health” vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday. “They put it in yesterday, and it’s empty already.

By 1 p.m., a drug-prevention-program worker was starting to restock the machine with more drug-test strips, Narcan and condoms — predicting the vending machine could need to be refilled “maybe twice a day, depending on which items go quite quickly.’’

“We have a lot of addicts and heroin users over here,” Williams said. “They should re-stock it immediately!”

Self-described crack smoker Minoshi Calpe, 56, had walked away with the second-to-last product in the vending machine — a fentanyl test strip — around 11 a.m. while sniffing that the glass used for the free pipes might not be up to her standards.

“I like the Pyrex because it’s a little thicker,’’ she said, also lamenting that “you can’t even sell that [vending stuff] because the programs give you all that stuff” already for free.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/nycs-drug-themed-vending-machine-cleaned-out-of-crack-pipes-narcan-overnight/

[TBoneTX 45,267]

39 minutes ago, Boiler said:

sniffing that the glass used for the free pipes might not be up to her standards.

A hobo knocked on a door.  The housewife opened it.

 

"May I please have a piece of bread to eat?" asked the hobo.  The woman brought him one.  The hobo sniffed at it and said, "Well, geez, lady -- couldn't you at least put some butter on it?"

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

12 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Why would any entity decide to hold a convention in San Francisco?

might be a good venue for city mayors in other states for a ground zero example of how not to do things........

[Dashinka 24,488]

5 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

might be a good venue for city mayors in other states for a ground zero example of how not to do things........

Now that you mention it, maybe the RNC should go there next year.  They can show others the utopia of the DNC.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Dashinka

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[Pooky 3,781]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

The Thieves’ Charter exists! 😱

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

10 hours ago, Boiler said:

pay the thieves guild or go out of business!

[TBoneTX 45,267]

"Nice little business you have here... be a shame if anything happened to it."

[Dashinka 24,488]

7 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

pay the thieves guild or go out of business!

The thieves guild lobby must be pretty powerful.

[TBoneTX 45,267]

Portland:  Sure, you can camp on the sidewalks

 

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/10/portland-sure-you-can-camp-on-the-sidewalks-n557038

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