{"id":118,"date":"2015-12-28T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-12-29T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:37:04","slug":"ugly-condo-building-on-mission-street-got-gavin-newsom-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Condo Building on Mission Street Received Subsidy from then-Mayor Gavin Newsom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF Weekly has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/sanfrancisco\/news-gus-murad-mission-vida-star-wars-new-mission-newsom\/Content?oid=4360936\" target=\"_blank\">revealing article <\/a>in which reporter Chris Roberts shows how this process happened:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way. For a time, those condos were supposed to be a part of City College&#8217;s planned expansion \u2014 and, later, affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead, the once-public property was flipped to the condo&#8217;s eventual developer after the former owner, a well-known restaurateur with political connections, whose purchase was partially financed with public money, stiffed his creditors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But the winner was a $4.5 million offer from restaurant owner and then-Small Business Commissioner Gus Murad, a friend and political donor of former Mayor Gavin Newsom who already owned a building on the block \u2014 the five-story structure that housed Medjool, well-known as a hangout for city planning officials and political types (and that had somehow been able to build its rooftop deck higher than city zoning code allowed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Weekly has a revealing article in which reporter Chris Roberts shows how this process happened: But it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way. For a time, those condos were supposed to be a part of City College&#8217;s planned expansion \u2014 and, later, affordable housing. Instead, the once-public property was flipped to the condo&#8217;s eventual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}