Magic in the Mission

It is too easy to make fun of the people who packed Room 400 in San Francisco's City Hall to stop American Apparel from opening a store on Valencia Street in the Mission District last week.

They are not serious people. They live in a world where facts like 27 vacant storefronts on Valencia Street and 9.3 percent unemployment statewide and nearly 600,000 jobs lost nationally last month do not matter.

SFGate - Magic in the Mission

I'm disappointed to hear that American Apparel was denied their plans to open a store on Valencia St. Don't get me wrong, I'm no more eager for the throngs of flatbrim-hat wearing bridge-and-tunnel mallrats to descend from the Haight. I cringe at the thought of what the neighborhood's hipsters would be able to accomplish with a ready source of day-glow hoodies, and tights. But banning them made next to no sense. One chain store would not be the beginning of the end, and even if it were to have had the effect of allowing more businesses to open on Valencia st, I simply don't see what's wrong with that. It would change the neighborhood, but I'd bet that the snobs that railed the hardest against AA were not working class latinos, and yet somehow they manage to call the Mission their neighborhood. Avoidance of change unless if behooves you is a common thing though.

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