Shop Local, get more
By Paula Connelly
Today Mayor Newsom held a press conference to announce the 'Shop SF. Get More', an economic promotion campaign for December / January. This promotion is a collaboration between SF Economic & Workforce Development, SF Office of Small Business, SF Convention and Visitor Bureau, SF Chamber of Commerce, Hotel Council, MTA, MUNI, DPT, BART, Chronicle, Examiner, Business Times and Bay Guardian to encourage people throughout the nine county Bay Area to shop in San Francisco. The Bay Guardian has been promoting small business and sustainable economic programs for years and this holiday season is urging its readers to spend $100 of their holiday money at locally owned, independent businesses - a move that would pump nearly $100 million into the city's recession-plagued economy.
The press conference was held Wednesday, December 3, 11:45am, at the Ark Toy Store, which is located at 3845 24th St (near Sanchez), in Noe Valley San Francisco.
Visit the San Francisco Visitor and Conventions Bureau's website: www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com to lean about Shop Local offers from participating businesses or visit www.sfbg.com/local to find out how to win $500 in the Guardian's Shop Local Reader's Contest.
Ark Toy Storefront in Noe Valley
Gavin Newsom kicks off the Shop Local campaign
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=42754@kpix.dayport.com
Press conference MC, Jennifer Entine Matz, Managing Deputy Director, Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Steve Falk, President & CEO, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Alan Morrell, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, Board of Directors
Gerald Johnson, Owner of Ark Toy Stores
Patricia Breslin, Director, Hotel Counsel of San Francisco
Regina Dick-Endrizzi, Acting Director of the Office of Small Business,with Bruce Brugmann
Guardian girls Rebecca Frank, Online and Print Advertising Coordinator, and Jenn Lachmann, Director of Advertising
Wade Nkrumah, Director of Communication to Portland's mayor-elect, Brian Purchia, Deputy Communications Director, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Rebecca Frank
Hank Plante, Political Editor for KPIX TV, confronted the Mayor about not buying his new Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid SUV in San Francisco, when the only Chevrolet dealership in the city is about to go out of business. Click here to view the video.
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Comments (1)
Of course our prices would be higher. Our cost of living is higher. The Mayor of all people knows this fact.
It is too bad that he was caught off guard, but maybe he will make sure that his staff pay more attention to the needs of San Francisco and its citizens.
Posted by Larry Metzger | December 6, 2008 04:38 PM