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Originally Posted by fflint
As already noted, Transbay did face opposition, it just took place a long time ago before many of you were paying attention.
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I think people know this, but are more curious why these very tall skyscrapers are not being mentioned in the
current, and extremely vocal, fight against tech/development, which is publicly and very vocally decrying literally everything...IPOs, evictions, waterfront buildings, arenas, corporate shuttles, even new museums and hospitals for pete's sake...and yet hasn't made a peep about buildings that will ACTUALLY add significant height to the city. While they can't stop it at this point, I admit I'm a bit confused about how I haven't seen one disapproving mention of it anywhere. I genuinely think the new and growing crop of anti-development advocates are not aware of it, since like I said earlier, in a bizarre twist of fate it seems like the 1% are subtly dictating what the "people" are fighting for. I think it will be extremely interesting once the cores become visible and the general public realizes this is actually happening, and if I was planning on developing a tower, I would want to get my project underway WELL before then.
I think the overwhelming majority of SF residents, even those campaigning for 8 Washington/waterfront ballots etc, are only really aware of the projects with significant media coverage right now, which are/were 8 Washington, Warriors Arena, etc. Little do they know there are around 10 very, very deep holes in the ground that will become very visible in late 2014...that may shift some more outrage back to towers, when the cause du jour seems to very much be waterfront and Ellis Act right now.