{"id":1975381,"date":"2023-07-17T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-ceo-says-san-francisco-will-never-recover-from-downturn\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:55:50","slug":"tech-ceo-says-san-francisco-will-never-recover-from-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-ceo-says-san-francisco-will-never-recover-from-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech CEO predicts San Francisco&#8217;s irreversible downfall."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftech-ceo-says-san-francisco-will-never-recover-from-downturn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\u200d  <\/p>\n<figure>\n \u2063 \u200d<figcaption>Getty Images<\/figcaption>\u200b  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u200b \u200b <\/p>\n<h2>Marc\u200b Benioff: San Francisco\u200b Downtown \u2062Will Never Be \u2064the\u200c Same<\/h2>\n<p>\u200c  \u200b<\/p>\n<p>Marc Benioff, CEO \u2062of San\u2062 Francisco-based software company Salesforce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-credible-super-professional-media-outlets-fail-to-amend-false-headlines-after-ig-report\/\" title=\"Very Credible, Super Professional Media Outlets Fail To Amend False Headlines After IG Report\">boldly declares<\/a> that\u200b the city&#8217;s\u200b downtown\u2064 is \u2064&#8221;never\u2064 going\u200d back \u200cto the\u2062 way it was&#8221; before the pandemic. According to him,\u200d workers\u2062 will no\u2062 longer\u2064 commute\u200d every day.<\/p>\n<div>\n\u200c    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\"\u2064 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2062    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p>\n<p>The city\u2063 needs to &#8220;rebalance\u200d downtown,&#8221; \u200dBenioff said, \u200daccording to\u200d the Associated \u200cPress. \u200cHe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-ceo-says-san-francisco-will-never-recover-from-downturn\/\" title=\"Tech CEO predicts San Francisco's irreversible downfall.\">recommends converting office\u200d space<\/a> \u200binto\u2062 housing\u2064 and\u200d increasing the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-selects-pamela-smith-as-police-chief-as-crime-in-city-soars\/\" title=\"Pamela Smith chosen as DC police chief amidst rising crime.\">police\u2062 officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> \u200c <\/p>\n<p>Rampant crime and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-enters-california-governor-race\/\" title=\"Larry Elder Enters California Governor Race\">rising homelessness<\/a> have\u2062 driven \u2064people \u200cand businesses out\u2062 of \u2064California cities, with\u2063 some even leaving the Golden\u2064 State \u200dentirely. San\u2064 Francisco&#8217;s downtown has\u200d lost\u200d half \u200cof\u200c its businesses since\u2063 the start of the pandemic. \u2064Major\u2063 retailers \u200clike Old\u2064 Navy, Nordstrom, \u2064Saks OFF 5th, and \u200dWhole Foods have \u2064closed\u200d their \u200bdowntown locations due to safety \u2064concerns.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>Over half a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-is-open-new-york-is-closed-and-ny-has-more-covid-deaths\/\" title=\"Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed, And NY Has More COVID Deaths\">million residents<\/a> have fled California \u2064in\u200d the two years following\u200d the\u200b pandemic&#8217;s onset, \u2064as\u2063 reported by\u2062 the New\u2062 York\u200d Post.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2063<\/p>\n<div>\n \u2063 \u200d  \u2064<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" \u2063rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u200c \u2064  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" \u2063rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>  \u2064<\/p>\n<p>San Jose\u200c clothier owner Daud\u2062 Shuja\u2064 reveals that \u200bnew customers\u200d prefer to live far away from\u2063 downtown. In\u2063 response, he\u200b plans to open\u2062 a new\u2064 location \u200ccloser\u200d to the suburbs in \u2062Palo \u200bAlto next year.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2062<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just\u200c don&#8217;t want \u2062to \u2062deal\u2064 with\u200d the homelessness, \u2062with the environment,\u200b with the\u200d ambiance,&#8221;\u2063 Shuja \u2064said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images&#8217; Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, predicts that San Francisco&#8217;s downtown will never return to its pre-pandemic state. He believes that the traditional daily commute will no longer be the norm for workers. Benioff suggests that the city should reevaluate its downtown area and consider converting office spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1975382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}