Europe figured out concessions decades ago. Every park has a kiosk: espresso, pastry, maybe a spritz or a beer at 6pm. Small operator pays rent, city gets revenue, park gets foot traffic and eyes on the grass. Everyone wins.
SF has 230+ parks and almost none of this. Dolores Park froze a Blue Bottle cart permit over community outreach complaints. Coit Tower took years of hand-wringing over a removable food kiosk (unsurprisingly: Peskin territory). Meanwhile we wonder why maintenance budgets are tight and parks feel empty at 7am.
Give me a coffee kiosk in every major park. Let the concession help pay for upkeep. Let foot traffic take care of public safety. Create a third space โ a square where people can meet instead of shouting at each other on social media. Iโll die on this hill.
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@dieworkwear A definitive trademark case is where Abercrombie & Fitch suing someone for trademark infringement of the mark โSafari.โ Also they imported the first Mahjong to America in the 1920s and was the key promoter of Mahjong in the US.
@HistorianZhang Nah itโs definitely the same at least in Beijing and I suspect in most non rural places, e.g., look at this Xinjiang dish recipe. Probably spread via the promotion of ็ๆฝ่ๆฝ dichotomy by all those tv cooking shows in 90s and 00s sponsored by soy sauce companies.
Another question is why is Bill Gatesโ daughter doing entrepreneurship hustle in the first place? Do you need to do this? Do you need to post on LinkedIn about what you learned today and congratulations to people you barely know? Whatโs the point of being the ultimate heiress?
This is just horrendous. You have a mediocre app to begin with which got funded likely because of nepotism. Then it has to cheat and steal from other apps and from vendors in the millions. Why arenโt people outraged by this? https://t.co/fp9w001Jm5
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@nikicaga To me, McMorrow has really bizarre body movements that is giving off bad vibes. Look at this ad of her where sheโs making this really big diving motion at the first seconds, and shes moving similarly in the bridge ad. https://t.co/aGPFvRYij5