Garry Tan, the cofounder of posterous.com, a startup on 16th and Mission Streets, posted a map with suggestions on where others should begin their next startup (see above).
More and more startups are springing up in the Mission, so it’s not that surprising that it has become somewhat of a destination. What’s interesting is that Tan doesn’t suggest that you move to the Mission’s east side.
Kevin Montgomery of Uptown Almanac, who I believe lives somewhere on Capp Street, had some harsh words for Tan’s map:
“The idea behind the map isn’t necessarily bad, but the descriptions of each location demonstrates a basic lack of familiarity of San Francisco and some really fucked up low-level racism. For example, how could some ‘<3’ the Mission but not include anything east of Mission or south of 24th on the map? Because it’s dangerous at night? Gringo, please. Just because there are more brown people and hookers east of Mission doesn’t mean it is particularly dangerous.” Read on.
Note that there are some startups West east of Mission Street. Also, the map Montgomery posted on Uptown Almanac, which looks like a screenshot, highlights an area west of Mission street. Looking at Tan’s Google map now, it highlights an area that extends east of Mission as far as South Van Ness Avenue.
Trendy Mission writer calls out techie Mission writer. Pot, meet Kettle.
That map makes for perfect flypaper. Its a bummer that Tan has already changed it to cover more streets east of Mission.
There are plenty of starts ups and new businesses of all kinds that can now be found east of Mission street all the way down to Potrero. We do NOT need any more, thank you; we do NOT want to look anymore like the obnoxious Dolores/Valencia corridor than we already do.
The gentrification is quite close to reaching a dangerous tipping point as it is. Some could, and do, make the legitimate argument that the tipping point was already passed a few years ago. Others might pinpoint the opening a few months back of the Wonderland boutique where empty floor space takes up tens times the room taken up by the racks of designer clothing.
This map is the GOOD thing.
This post and the one by “concerned citizen” sounds like the same bullshit during the colonizer era. Didn’t Columbus and Ponce de Leon have a spat over who “discovered” Florida, which was occupied by natives?
Geez, same old guano.
There is a hot mess of startups in the “media gulch” (Bryant St., “Activspace” etc.