I just read your latest update on the former Apple Tree Market “property” (“Vacant market lot in OB reopens for self-pay customers; future of property still unclear,” June 13 Beacon, Page 5) and almost ripped my hair out. \u00a0
\nWhy are out-of-town capitalist magnates allowed to manipulate our community like this?
\nFrom my understanding, the OB Surf and Skate was vacated to make room for the Apple Tree group to open a smaller specialty market, but they backed out due to insanely high rents and the prospect of a Whole Foods-type market opening in their old location, making their business model fragile.
\nAdd to that the “property” owner where the old market was is asking an exorbitant rent (I heard $20,000 a month) for the space \u2014 and no one wants to pay that. Not even the big guys.\u00a0
\nThis is another example of the “free market” private sector, so lauded and revered, miserably failing with no regard for the community. They will put their greed and profits over everything else.
\nAt a point, property rights become extortion. If they can\u2019t [redevelop] it, let\u2019s take it back and do SOMETHING with it. Have a democratic decision. With all the bright minds in Ocean Beach I\u2019m sure we can do better than just let it rot and be a moldy eyesore.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just read your latest update on the former Apple Tree Market “property” (“Vacant market lot in OB reopens for self-pay customers; future of property still unclear,” June 13 Beacon, Page 5) and almost ripped my hair out. \u00a0 Why are out-of-town capitalist magnates allowed to manipulate our community like this? From my understanding, the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"OB suffering at hands of greedy property owners","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}