The Gardinista has a piece on Lila B. Design and its new location at the Stable Cafe. Our offices used to be nearby and Lila B. Design operated out of a place on Folsom Street in that same block. Even then it was lovely, but the flower and design shop has transformed the Stable Cafe’s courtyard as the Gardinista’s photos show.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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But I thought gentrification was supposed to be terrible?
This is beautiful and what the New Mission is all about.
Hahaha. The Mission is alot more than this. Its getting really watered down…
Our purity is being watered down?
Good. It’s called diversity.