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      <image:caption>Suzette Lee, Jonathan Carver Moore, Fernando Pujals and Robert Moses attend Market Street Arts Mixer x Jonathan Carver Moore on September 28th 2023 at Jonathan Carver Moore in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer Photography)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Holy Stitch founder Julian Prince Dash speaks at the it’s grand opening on May 16, 2024. Photo Credit: Felix Uribe Photography.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A man wearing a black hoodie with a neon green safety vest that says 'URBAN ALCHEMY' and a logo on the back, standing on a city sidewalk. He is talking to a woman with long blonde hair, wearing a blue jacket and carrying a water bottle. Around them are individuals, some sitting on the ground with belongings.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Three people sitting at a table during a meeting, with flags and wooden shelves in the background. The person on the left is a woman with curly hair wearing a colorful striped blouse. The person in the middle is a man in a yellow and black racing jacket and a cap, smiling. The person on the right is a man in a suit, gesturing with his hands and speaking.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Colorful hand-drawn community event scene with a yellow building labeled 'ALL WELCOME', a stage named 'RAIN OR SHINE', and a booth titled 'SHOWERING THE COMMUNITY WITH LOVE' offering essentials like soap, socks, masks, and more. People are dancing, biking, and engaging in activities.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A man in dark clothing and a baseball cap is holding a hose connected to a small green kiosk on a busy city street. Two other workers in safety vests are near the kiosk, one facing away and the other standing to the side. The background shows a large building with arched windows and bright pink lighting, and several pedestrians are walking by.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“In a nutshell, Urban Alchemy is a good neighbor.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Case Study: Urban Alchemy - For Urban Alchemy practitioner, Greg Brinkley, compassion, love, and respect are the skillsets he taps into most frequently when engaging with neighbors. Many in the neighborhood know him by name and respond positively to his brand of empathy.  Once in a while Greg comes out of pocket to buy a neighbor something to eat, getting to know a little bit more about them. When someone is repeatedly approaching folks in line at Supreme, for example, they’re likely not Mid-Market regulars and have gravitated in from elsewhere. The walk and meal are an opportunity for him to understand individual circumstances, and connect in a way that is meaningful for them both.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Case Study: Business Owners Band Together - “I came down the corner of 7th and Stevenson about twenty years ago; and around 2015, things started changing a little bit...and then we started seeing a decline. Using and dealing began to increase. A lot more car break-ins. Thefts increased.”</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Zendesk is a founding member of MMBA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2022, as the dust settled from the economic upheaval brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mid-Market Business Association &amp; Foundation sought to define and develop a recovery strategy for the neighborhood. Called Re-Think, Re-Envision, Re-Experience Mid-Market (RRR Mid-Market), this process included four public community stakeholder focus groups and ongoing community engagement, a call for creative concepts, a retail sector report, consultation from a national retail expert–MJB Consulting–and a national arts and cultural expert–NOW Art. After a year and a half, RRR Mid-Market yielded a recovery action plan, Market Street Arts. The plan launched in August 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Mid-Market Community Based Safety Program is based upon a core belief that all individuals in the Tenderloin, Mid-Market and UN Plaza should have safe public spaces to conduct their lives.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our joint operations pilot program was a new model for how the public and private sectors integrate their resources to deliver daily public safety and maintenance services with the goal of achieving consistently cleaner and safer shared public spaces.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pilot project to provide small business clean and safe support while proving the concept for the Mid-Market/Tenderloin Joint Operations Pilot Program.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Current Projects &amp; Programs - Market Street Arts</image:title>
      <image:caption>Guided by the vision of Mid-Market as an internationally recognized arts, culture, and entertainment haven, Market Street Arts invests in attracting diverse artists, art organizations, and creative entrepreneurs to vacant storefronts and public activations while also supporting at-risk, long-standing, and new small businesses and art institutions in the Mid-Market area.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Entertainment Zones (EZ) are designated areas in San Francisco where people can purchase to-go drinks from local bars and restaurants and enjoy them outside in common spaces like plazas, sidewalks, and streets during certain hours. In 2024, the MMBA&amp;F team successfully advocated for a Mid-Market Entertainment Zone on Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets. Our team is working with city officials, neighborhood stakeholders, SFPD, and our community based safety program to implement our first Entertainment Zone events in 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mid Market Foundation recently awarded SF Shines micro grants between $5,000 and $10,000 per business (from a total funding pool of $50,000) for expenses related to storefront improvements, repairs and equipment, and/or the increase in vitality of the Mid Market commercial corridor.</image:caption>
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