Commentary On March 3, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the “Welcome Back to SF pledge”—a commitment by large private employers to return their workforce to offices in several areas of the city by the end of March. When we first heard about this, we thought, “Terrific!” and pored over the press coverage for the other half of the story: What has Mayor Breed committed the City of San Francisco to do? What policies will City Hall change to rejuvenate our business districts? We searched in vain. Breed offered no ambitious proposal, no carrot, no stick, and no follow-through. It’s easy for any large employer to say that “some” of their workers will return in person to “some” offices, under “hybrid” and “flexible” workplace policies, by the end of March. Here is the reality. San Francisco’s office neighborhoods are the most vacant, inactive and shuttered of any major city in …