Comment by renewiltord
3 days ago
Yeah, something like that happened nearby. They set up this bike repair store near my place and started repairing bikes. No one asked me if I even wanted this store nearby. I've been living here for like a decade and they gave me nothing. They offered to repair my bike for a fee, but I can already do that at home for free. We should ban businesses if they won't pay everyone within the vicinity the fee they demand.
I think there was some kind of corruption as to how they get to just repair bikes without giving me anything. I've been a local for way longer than these people.
EDIT: And yes, they do get government money. SF has a city program to encourage local businesses or something so they get grants. Besides all businesses are eligible for SBA loans and no one asked me if they should be.
Okay. Did the bike shop get a tax break to be set up? If not then your ironic analogy has failed.
O wow I didn’t realize bike repair shops were 1M+ sq ft!
You could fit every bike in your city in there lol.
A bike shop or other small retail business brings jobs and benefits to the local community. A data center brings pollution and practically no new permenant jobs or benefits specifically to that community, only to the cloud.
But don't worry about it, this is something an $850/hr consultant is paid to not understand.