Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home

[hunter]

17. It doesn't have to be bribes up front.

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.