{"id":269,"date":"2020-12-30T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5458.temp.domains\/~brianhp3\/?p=269"},"modified":"2022-01-18T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:15:23","slug":"business-owners-spent-thousands-to-build-shared-spaces-platforms-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhowey.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Business owners spent thousands to build Shared Spaces platforms. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Carly Graf and Brian Howey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea Hung is a second-generation business owner in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown, running Washington Bakery and Restaurant, which her parents opened 25 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She invested \u201ca few thousand dollars\u201d into building an outdoor platform under Shared Spaces, a city-run, fee-free program created during the coronavirus pandemic to help businesses convert parking spaces, sidewalks and streets into outdoor space for commercial activity. Her restaurant\u2019s location on hilly Washington Street made leveling out the platform a particularly difficult task that required more time and money than originally planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only two months later, the spacious outdoor platform now sits empty and boarded up with wooden planks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be boarded up, but it\u2019s for our safety,\u201d Hung said. She recounted multiple stories of arriving at her restaurant in the morning to find trash, waste and even people\u2019s belongings on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day, Hung discovered nearly one dozen syringes and other paraphernalia. Without any background in how to safely handle this kind of material, she called 311, only to be told that it would take as many as three days for someone from the Department of Public Works to help with the cleanup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be up to us to clean up someone\u2019s syringes and waste when we don\u2019t have the proper equipment to do so,\u201d Hung said of the responsibility that\u2019s fallen on business owners to keep their Shared Spaces platforms clean and unhazardous. \u201cThe reason we boarded up is that it becomes very unsanitary, and we need to keep everyone safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/business-owners-spent-thousands-to-build-shared-spaces-platforms-now-what\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?resize=819%2C286\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?resize=1024%2C357&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?resize=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?resize=768%2C268&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?resize=172%2C60&amp;ssl=1 172w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianhowey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sfexaminer-logo.png?w=1394&amp;ssl=1 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carly Graf and Brian Howey Chelsea Hung is a second-generation business owner in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown, running Washington Bakery and Restaurant, which her parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Business owners spent thousands to build Shared Spaces platforms. 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