We started writing about the building at 3246 18th Street on the corner of Shotwell in 2010, asking, Is This Building Getting Fixed? It wasn’t.

We followed up  in 2011 reminding readers — and the city and the owner — that Nearly a Decade and Two Ordinances Later, a Blighted Building Remains.

Slowly, workers arrived, followed by heavier construction equipment. New units came on the market and recently, Gallardo’s opened.

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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/executive 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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