and it operates openly, someone’s palms r getting greased.
start there.

And to whom would the bribes be given?

sometimes judges. this is murika, man.

If you let a place go completely to shit developers can buy it up for cheap and pay the bribes, fees, whatever, on the back end as they rebuild.

This building is a failure on many levels and I suspect some in the Federal Government simply want to get rid of it. They just need an excuse.

It's a white elephant.

Monumental architecture is always a crap shoot. People are generally more comfortable in places that have grown organically. They don't need high profile architects telling them how to live and work.

The federal and city governments could easily take back the plaza. It's telling that they don't.

Looking around the city there are several buildings that could easily be repurposed as federal offices and it seems to me that's the unspoken plan.

I've got a long history of working in Tenderloin buildings; I visit Vietnamese and other favorite little restaurants in the neighborhood. I can go pretty much anywhere and not feel in danger or intimidated. But I'll do whatever I can to avoid using that bus stop again. It was a revolting experience.

Maybe - maybe - a "protective zone" or "impact zone" could be established around the Federal properties where criminal activity is elevated to a Federal offense. The City itself seems paralyzed to do anything effective about these problems.

I've been re-assessing my empathetic liberal views in the face of the devastation that's being wrought downtown.

try to tie it around Democrats necks.

here and everyone is affected. Car break ins, cars stolen, the young drivers driving the stolen cars dangerously, crashing them and then running away. Just last week a gun fight spilled out from a city street onto the local interstate shutting down the highway for hours. That shit is on the news all the time, (you know the old, if it bleeds it leads). Republicans love to blame the Democrats for that and with it just might stick.

this last election

"This is Kamala's (or Gavin's) plan for America. Vote Republican"

Asking derelict looking disembarkers at SF Greyhound:
"How did you get the ticket here?"
"Uh... duh... well... they gave me ten dollars and the tickets when I got out of jail in Frozen Dog, Idaho."
The likes from far too many of the sort.

I don't even think about disembarking 7th and Mission for decades now. It was already getting bad news in the 80's living nearby. But we still went there for Taqueria Pancho Villa. It's a damn shame now, and gone are the days I'll stay overnight re: break-ins.
That said, using good street smarts outside of that zone I immensely enjoy my junkets there and plan on doing some Castro, Japantown or the beach aside from business while there: odd perk with climate change... sunny summer days near Sutro Baths.

I was there when Moscone/Milk were assassinated.

The building was put on lock-down, I remember that much.

It was a hazardous place to work due to asbestos.

I was so glad when I found a different job in a different part of the City.

Wow did that place ever suck and that was in 1978!