With all of the pandemic puppies and kittens that we adopted over the last couple of years, I've heard some vets are very tightly booked out and short-staffed. So, it's good to see a new vet with a new business model take on space at the old Anthropologie space. The photo is a bit shadowy because it was near sunset and the tree we fought so hard to save during the Safeway project is still casting its shadow on Primrose.
I'll be interested to see how this $149 per year membership service from Dr. Treat works out. I burn through more than $150 over the course of a year pretty regularly at my vet (which I love). It's good to see this space occupied and without having to resort to the tactics EssEff has embraced. The SF Examiner piece about a cafe on Cole St. that could not come to terms on a lease renewal has the numbers:
The City adopted a commercial vacancy tax in 2020. Its aim, in part, was to incentivize landlords to keep their storefronts occupied, thus providing more negotiating power to small businesses. Like most taxes, it’s complicated and contains a number of exceptions. In designated business districts, the vacancy tax amounts to $250 per linear foot of storefront that faces the public right of way — if that storefront has been left empty for six months or more that year. The tax escalates to $500 per foot in the second year and $1,000 per foot in the third year and beyond.
Storefronts on Cole Street are about 25 feet wide, meaning the tax would amount to roughly $6,250 in the first year — less than what the Reverie was paying in rent per month.
Yet another bad idea that I hope doesn't work its way down the Peninsula.
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