Strategy Girl has decided to put the kabash on all the bad news and will only be publishing good news about the sector (at least, until something rankles my superpowers). Here are some uplifting tidbits:
- California Academy: "With traffic 50 percent higher than projections, the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has had its one millionth visitor, two months faster than expected." SF Business Times, March 13-19. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/03/02/daily72.html
- Affordable Housing: "New condo development may be dead in the water, but San Francisco's affordable housing builders just keep pouring foundations and putting up steel." SF Business Times, February 20-26. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/02/16/daily10.html
- "From Ranks of Jobless, A Flood of Volunteers" NY Times, March 15. (and, in the spirit of this blog, stop grousing, nonprofits. We should all be excited about the opportunity to engage these newly enthusiastic and committed citizens. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/nyregion/16volunteers.html?_r=2