Smaller Home Depot proffered to supes
From the Examiner, “Two days after a proposed Home Depot on Bayshore Boulevard did not get enough support from city leaders, planners for the big-box company are sketching out a store smaller than the 140,000 square feet currently envisioned. “Home Depot has said that they would be amenable to 107,000 [square feet],” Supervisor Bevan Dufty said on Thursday.”
“Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said company representatives started looking at alternatives immediately after Tuesday’s adjournment. “We’re committed to having a store in San Francisco,” she said, noting that for 10 years the Atlanta-based corporation has been trying to settle at one location or another. She said she couldn’t estimate the money already spent, but said millions of dollars would be a reasonable guess.”
Who cares how much they spent in the past 10 years? It’s obvious that the majority doesn’t want Home Depot in San Francisco. HD wouldn’t have spent this much money if they didn’t feel that they would be able to profit significantly from the addition of the store to San Francisco (only five minutes away from their Colma store and ten minutes from their Emeryville Store). Is anyone dumb enough to think that Home Depot really ‘cares’ about San Francisco? Do they ‘care’ about our neighborhoods? About our neighborhood hardware stores that carry property-specific items for our unique, older homes? Do they even care about the Hunter’s Point residents they claim to be focusing their jobs on?
Hell no. They care about one thing and one thing only, their shareholders. It’s all about marketshare. There are people in San Francisco that don’t drive to Colma or Emeryville and they want those dollars.
Are the Supes really fooled by this? This is one time that Chris Daly is allowed to throw a little tantrum (IMHO), but we haven’t heard a word out of him. Why does he choose to shut up now? I’m actually surprised he hasn’t offered up a site in SOMA with some outrageous fee attached…
