George Herbert wrote:
I wouldn't recommend looking for office space in the Haight, though. No good long distance rapid transit.
In dot-com terms; SOMA was ground zero, but that's faded a lot and spread out to the rest of the Bay Area. (For those not familar, SOMA is South of Market Area, the area south of Market Street, bounded by Market, Van Ness, the 101/80 freeways, and King Street / China Basin on the south. It's about a square mile.) The vibrant geek culture of the late 1990s in that area is muted by comparison; there's still a focal point there, but it's much less central to the region's modern web-based activities.
I spent a number of years working in the area and in the web industry, until the bust.
It's still a cool place to be, but it's not the same. For the most part, everyone got cars and commutes now, so the scene diffused...
on 9/23/07 7:34 PM, Sue Gardner at sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
George, Marc, Sue, others - what neighbourhoods might you recommend? Fundamentally, for that first year, we are looking for something transit-accessible, central, and as cheap as possible. A little seedy would be okay.
Sue,
Although I don't live in the city any longer, I visit there as often as I can. I do have a number of personal and professional contacts there, and would be happy to ask them for some input. Do I have your permission to give them your email address so they could contact you directly with any questions they might have?
Marc