Will San Francisco's Downtown Shake Off The Pandemic Blues?

CBS San Francisco

March 7, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO -- The downtown stores and businesses play a critical role in driving San Francisco economy, but they have been slow in rebounding from the pandemic blues.

It's not a scenario shared by many downtowns across the country.

Dr. Karen Chapple is a professor emerita at UC Berkeley and Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. She and a team of researchers are conducting the "Urban Displacement Project," which tracks how much activity is happening in downtown areas. They analyze cell phone data, not just office vacancy rates, to compare recent population patterns to pre-pandemic numbers.

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